Kodak B&W Paper Discontinued? Good Ridence.

        These companies make the huge mistake that because a item is not
selling a billion dollars worth of every product they make a year they
should get rid of it seeking only the most profitable items.............They
do not realize that if they were still selling a lot of the chemicals and
other discontinued items that I would not only be buying paper from them
but chemicals as well and other supplies as well..........
        Then they move much of their manufacturing to third world countries
and now they expect me to buy my film from them when they cut off my
paper..... To top it off they have made it extremely difficult for
dealers to buy their product placing huge yearly minimal quotas on
them....... The small dealer can not meet these quotas........Again, they
are only seeking huge profits............
      When I see this sort of mentality, all though I have rooted for them
in the past as I am a die hard Kodak Fan, I say good riddance.....
Hopefully a company will emerge that has a service attitude toward their
customers.... Some things you sell at a break even point, or even a loss to
keep your customer base strong on other items you manufacture not just
discontinue them............. Also Maybe selling one box of 50 sheets 8x10
Ectachrome for over "$400"???? has something to do with it as well
......You can not convince me that they can not do small production runs and
streamline thier marketing toward the small dealer and end user it increase
thier market share ..........
       They have been living on easy street for to long.... The way I
see it , their heads are in their asses.....
They still do not realize that there will always be the die hard
Photographers in the world that will continue to buy these products no
matter what and they need to gear their operation toward them before they
completely loose them as well..................... Do they really care??
Probably not....
Received on Thu Jun 16 10:12:33 2005