Canada attacked; SEC rule not tough enough; price rises modest; Australia in tough position in FTA talks; UST 10yr yields rise, oil and gold fall; NZ$1 = US$0.794, TWI = 77.2

A little close too home...maybe, but I received this ironic based connumdrum.....this Friday...Gummy.

What's the difference between cigarettes and mass religious based murderers?



You can only bring 200 cigarettes into the UK/USA/CANADA/ before the authorities start asking questions.

Not funny, but true...I wonder what the limit is here.

When I was working retail sales at Computer Xpress, we took the monitors to repair to another local electronics specilaist.  I knew them from before I started work at CX so I was taking my boss (the owner of the CX franchise) to introduce him and see if they could work together.

  He took one look at their store a made a sigh and quick grimace.





So being the good salesperson I was I asked him what he saw.  He said "oh, nothing"



I says, "Seriously I want to know.  You are obviously seeing something that means something to you that I'm not seeing.  And since business owners like you are going to be my customers that I have to sell to, I really do want to know what you're seeing when you look at their workplace."    



I said it's well presented, reasonably professional, a few parking spots. They obviously doing ok, so it shows they're good at what they do.



his reply was, the place is well kept, and quite spacious.  The paint job is quite well done and decorative (was pictures of plugs etc, not just flat colour) and recent.  The building is good square footage, with good space for staff, workbenches and multiple projects.  And their staff obviously appear to be very skilled.   And I have to pay for all that, out of my margin.



What might look like a great ad or promotion from one persons view is frequently the exact opposite from the other side of the fence.  David and his advertisers might think they're providing a valuable service and flash looking professional ads. 

 But not to me.  This site is a time and motivation killer for me, it chews bandwidth the flashing moving ads are annoying and distracting, making concentration on the important topics difficult,  Especially the one in the middle of the text that disappears and forces the text to scroll that actually hurts my eyes.



most of the ads are poorly targetted, and I doubt I'm the target demographic for their graphic designers (like my monitor repair friends).  I also doubt many people here are the demographic for that style advert.   And if the content on the site is many adverts, and the adverts aren't content that is of value to me, then I will go elsewhere.... especially as...



David seems to have forgotten what he's selling.

 A capital crime for _this_ audience (I hope!)



Same as Fonterra, and the Government.  Easy to do when you're an employee in the system, as having not-employee priorities is difficult from that perspective.



You're providing a product - as a dairy farmer I actually do have to be nice to the cows.  As a manufacturer I do actually have to cultivate _very_ good relationships with my suppliers.  And government ...well if you want an economy to survive, you have to seed it.   In property investor terms this is known as "You make you profit when you buy".    This is because a bad investment can never be turned into a good investment, at best it can be a hard work margin return.   You stick nasty ads on here... you'll get the demographic that fits that content, and all those well heeled decision makers and investment people will find someone else who is willing to court them.

 And when you've only got low class supplies to sell to your advertisers, then your business is going to follow.   



If David, and others around here don't know this... then I'm in the wrong room.