You can use candy to child-snatch a child and use continued promises to keep a fool hooked like a fish who deeply swallowed line and sinker, but you can't use honey-coated grapes or ish to fix bad wine or avoid inspecting every aspect of the process, policies, procedures and personnel...that is....if you expect to deliver a great product seasoned with ages of improved understandings.
You know those advertised products they want you to buy now and expect delivery in six to eight to twelve weeks? They want you to buy now, pay now, invest now, want now, but wait patiently without question. So I did. Then after a year or so, I asked questions about the status of my delivery and was unsatisfied with the reasons given for the delay. I went to the airportal so my spirit could traverse to something else.
There, I met a friend I hadn't seen in a too long minute. While we were talking, a seller came up to us and asked my friend if she wanted to buy a card. She was holding a small long box of cards with male or female names on them. She gave my friend a card with a male name on it. My friend, slightly annoyed, handed it back and asked if she had any with a female name. The seller took the card back and rifled through the unorganized cards.
You know me. I laughed out loud and said to myself, Lawd have mercy!
The seller finally handed my friend a card with a female name, and then asked my friend if she had a pen so she could write down her information on an order form.
You know me. I also decided to ask my friend a ridiculous question, so I said, do you have some ink? My friend poked me with her elbow while doing her best to ignore me.
Not wanting to lose the timing of moment and punchline, I answered for my friend, and said, yeah, but I ain't got no money.
The buyer is supposed to decide based on the seller's presentation, then pay upfront with trust, faith, time and other resources, while waiting for product delivery several weeks later.
Meanwhile, the buyer is receiving frequent reports about leasehold leaks and flaws, design problems, raw material supply chain problems, manufacturing delays, oops ups fucked up shipping delays, legal problems, libel and slander interfering with cash flow, all of which are somebody else's fault and not the result of business decisions from top to down to out.
When you buy a whole product, you expect a whole product, not a prototype or work-in-progress or a little bit now and a little bit whenever, yet far too many sellers expect you to believe in as advertised on TV products, buy now and accept delivery later without questions about what's going on with my order or questioning their answers to your questions.
For any seller, you are part of the product is part of you.
I believed in you from the start that you were going to deliver as promised. I accepted the proposition and initial terms while trying to help a sista out despite her struggles. Asking you to shoot me straight is not hate. Look at the positives, is the last thing I want to hear when my product has not yet been delivered and performance has been shaky, iffy, up and down, consistently inconsistent for what is now going on 16 weeks.
