I have a simple solution to the UP problem.
If you don't like UP's stance, don't buy any of their branded product.
Buy other lines or buy Undecorated and create your own decals.
Then we all pay 5% more or buy undecorated.
It was interesting when I helped Athearn do the CalTrain Bombadier commuter
cars. Got some photos, Athearn decided to produce them, so I put them in
contact with CalTrain marketing which said, "Great. What neat publicity.
Thanks!" to Athearn. As a thank you (from me since Caltrain also was a great
help in getting me access to the yard for photos), I gave one of the
production cars to my contact there. They love it.
Why can't other roads see the PR value in this? Oh well, marketing is
generally not rocket science. I'll bet the roads don't even cover their
marketing time with the fees generated, and the blanket permission upon
request would cost about 90% less. Sigh.
Ed.
in article snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com, MrRathburne at
snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote on 1/7/04 11:00 AM:
If it's their legal right, then so what?
Kent in SD
"I want to be the candidate for
the guys with Confederate flags
on their pickups too."
--Howard Dean, running for
president of the Confederate
States of America
Actually, as far as UP is concerned, a Final Solution might be better.
I suppose they wish to charge a fee for using the name Credit Moblier too!
Regards,
DAve
It's that very stupidity and general corporate legal bloody-
mindedness of the UP stance that annoys me. Marketing as
practiced is indeed not rocket science, and the practitioners
are certainly not rocket scientists; more like NASA and
Thiokol management types. If only they were aboard when the
seals blew.
Personally, I'm pretty much fine by the UP name to be charged, since it is
still in operation, but adding the D&RGW, C&NW, MoPac, etc to that list, of
which are fallen flags would be like me deciding that after I gave somebody
money and told them it was free, then to go back a year later and ask for
that money back...
that's the logic I see in it... NONE
Thanks
Brandon
snipped-for-privacy@aol.comSPAMnot (Two23) wrote in
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Believe me, just because it is legal doesn't make it good
policy.
It can be argued that they lost that right by not doing anything about
it for 100 years...
Paul A. Cutler III
*************
Weather Or No Go New Haven
*************
Hmmmm,
Coke is in the soft drink business. Try selling a Coke box car, Coke
HO billboard, Coke key chain, Coke condom , etc without their
permission.
Or do a Disney character series of box cars and tell Disney it's none
of their business.
Methinks they'd disagree.
Mike Tennent
"IronPenguin"
But of course those aren't models, are they? Awaiting your
links to prototype photos of the Diet Coke boxcar or the Pluto
reefer . . .
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So what? Nice. Is it their legal right to BAN any use of ALL
roadnames on products? So what, no more decals, or decorated cars?
And why not have ACF ban the use of any of their car shapes? No more
hobby so what.
So what is a saying for losers and quitters.
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