Monday, December 03, 2007

Kit to be tied?

An interesting post on Yahoo! today from an alias that had been silent for several months, under the subject header 'Name That Con, Artist':
Catagory: RFI Licensees of the 21st Century

Clue: Letter;

Dear xxxxxxxx,

Please review and sign the Sales Representative Agreement. Keep a copy for yourself and mail back the orginal with your US $995.00 territory fee to us at:

xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxx
xxxxx xxxx xxxxx
xxxxxx
xxxxxxxxx xx xxxxx

As soon as I get your letter, I will immediately send your Product Demonstration Kit (PDK/Demo window), Salesman's Notebook, and a few business cards to get you started. We will have 500 business cards printed and sent to you within a few weeks. We expect to do a product launch on November, 14th. We will have our web site completed with sourcing information and pricing at that time.

Best regards,

xxxxxx
xxxxxx xxxxx

Two things are obvious: first, if anything happened on November 14th with respect to SPD, we certainly haven't heard about it, and second, the writer, a longtime booster of REFR and SPD, sounds just a wee bit angry. Whoever this is probably wishes they'd listened to what this blog had to say about those PDK's.

Between this and the continued weakness in the share price, now into its sixth straight week, solidarity in a group for whom solidarity is its primary strength, seems to be fracturing a bit. No doubt, if this person continues in this vein the stalwarts will quickly encourage him or her to go away and simmer in silence, so I don't expect this to set off any wide-scale dissent, but once again, these little outbursts are still of interest. One never knows how many others feel the same way.

Update: In a followup, the poster in question indicated that he or she never signed the agreement (and presumably, never forked over the $995). This person also made reference to an "extensive file" that the above letter is a part of. This may not be the last we hear of this after all...