[Ipg-smz] Worst press swag ever? Nominations welcome ... here's mine ...

[Gabe Goldberg]

Mentioned this thread to a friend, he replied:

Share the KnowledgeWare story:

One of the KW founders was Fran Tarkenton, former NFL quarterback. At 
one point before Sterling bought them, KW was in big trouble: product 
wasn’t working well, customers were angry, etc. To try to appease one of 
them, they sent the customer an autographed football.

The customer sent it back with a knife in it.

On 1/4/2020 2:40 PM, Barbara Krasnoff via Ipg-smz wrote:
> When I was at Computer Shopper, some genius - don't remember the 
> product - sent an envelope of spent bullet shells with a note that 
> read something like, "Something is coming for the editors of Computer 
> Shopper." We weren't the only pub that called the authorities...
>
> -- 
> Barbara Krasnoff
> bkrasnoff at gmail.com <mailto:bkrasnoff at gmail.com>
> http://www.brooklynwriter.com
>
> Author of "The History of Soul 2065."
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 1:51 PM Dan Kusnetzky via Ipg-smz 
> <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>
>     Don't forget the toy fish Novell sent another year.
>     -- 
>     Sent from Dan Kusnetzky's virtual office.
>     Mispellings and errors courtesy of autocorrect.
>
>     On January 4, 2020 12:22:37 PM EST, Sharon Fisher via Ipg-smz
>     <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>
>         The inflatable doll novell sent me so I could have an analyst
>         sitting at my desk while I went to their conference.
>
>         On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 8:27 AM Ken Hess via Ipg-smz
>         <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>
>             You could probably sell it as raw material to a Botox clinic.
>
>             Thanks,
>
>             Ken
>
>             Kenneth Hess
>             (918) 630-6236
>             Twitter: @kenhess
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>             Filmmaker - Podcaster - Reviewer - System Administrator -
>             Writer
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>
>             On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 9:15 AM David Needle via Ipg-smz
>             <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>
>                 Although the "bigger" story here is that I found this
>                 in a box of stuff from 2010 and earlier. Why in the
>                 world did I save this? !!!!
>
>
>                 HP PB&J Swag
>                 To: David Needle <davidneedle at gmail.com
>                 <mailto:davidneedle at gmail.com>>
>
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