Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-20 Thread owenb
Oops! Here are the e-mail addresses for Mr. Jacques Le Marois and Mr. Paul Guillet of MandrakeSoft. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Owen, Normally since June we have deeply improved the customer care of MandrakeStore. If there is any case which was badly handled we need to know (me and

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-20 Thread revolt
[snip] Revolt: Somewhere on the Store site there is a way of tracking orders -- I'd try that first. It's possible that DHL lost his DVDs. However, if the order hasn't been shipped, a firm, but polite, e-mail to M. Demoulin might work. Eight weeks is way too long -- hell, 9.1 was released in

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 11:19 pm, revolt wrote: [snip] Revolt: Somewhere on the Store site there is a way of tracking orders -- I'd try that first. It's possible that DHL lost his DVDs. However, if the order hasn't been shipped, a firm, but polite, e-mail to M. Demoulin might work.

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-19 Thread owenb
Nearly all responses to my suggestion that the Action Editor of Smart Computing could induce Mandrake to explain why customers were being ignored were, don't do it.So minding the sentiments of others I have another suggestion. Write to Jean Brice Demoulin, Marketing Manager for

RE: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-19 Thread Frankie
] Behalf Of owenb Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2003 3:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive! Nearly all responses to my suggestion that the Action Editor of Smart Computing could induce Mandrake to explain why customers were being ignored were, don't do

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-19 Thread revolt
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 03:43 pm, owenb wrote: Nearly all responses to my suggestion that the Action Editor of Smart Computing could induce Mandrake to explain why customers were being ignored were, don't do it.So minding the sentiments of others I have another

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 09:55 pm, revolt wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 03:43 pm, owenb wrote: Write to Jean Brice Demoulin, Marketing Manager for MandrakeSoft at the Paris office. A resonable explaination that customer goodwill and loyalty is being declining

RE: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-18 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 21:46, Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Monday, 18 August 2003 9:08 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive! On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, owenb wrote

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-18 Thread Miark
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:11:23 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to the poor quality of the manuals (which triggered this thread): I spent most of my working life working for manufacturing companies. One of the first lessons I learned was that if the product doesn't meet the

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, owenb wrote: There may be some help at hand. When LH the makers of translation software got in hot water and closed their US office I received assistance from the Action Editor of Smart Computing Magazine . If several of us write maybe the public airing of

RE: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-17 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Monday, 18 August 2003 9:08 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive! On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, owenb wrote: There may be some help at hand. When LH the makers

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 17 August 2003 09:46 pm, Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Monday, 18 August 2003 9:08 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive! On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, owenb wrote

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-17 Thread Miark
On 17 Aug 2003 21:07:30 -0400, ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hell,,, I would rather suffer in silence than give someone something negative to print about MandrakeSoft. Ya, I'm inclined to agree. I think the store problems are a matter of time. Once Mandrake gets back in the black (read,

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 22:57, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 14 August 2003 07:40 pm, Alex Weiss wrote: Andrei Raevsky wrote: I bought the Definative Manual and as soon as I got it the pages began to fall out. Phone calls to and e-mails have been unsucessful. They

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-16 Thread Miark
On 16 Aug 2003 02:22:04 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's way past time that something was done about the store problems. There has been alot that hasn't been said about store problems in order to give them time to have rectified the problem, but if rectification is not

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:13, Miark wrote: On 16 Aug 2003 02:22:04 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's way past time that something was done about the store problems. There has been alot that hasn't been said about store problems in order to give them time to have

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-16 Thread Miark
On 16 Aug 2003 17:42:15 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you've had bad experience too. (?) Actually I've never dealt with the store at all. The only thing I would buy is inexpensive things, and the only reason I'd even do that is as a contribution. But MandrakeClub

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-16 Thread Marc
On Saturday 16 August 2003 04:42 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:13, Miark wrote: On 16 Aug 2003 02:22:04 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's way past time that something was done about the store problems. There has been alot that hasn't been said about

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 16 August 2003 08:15 pm, Miark wrote: On 16 Aug 2003 17:42:15 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you've had bad experience too. (?) Actually I've never dealt with the store at all. The only thing I would buy is inexpensive things, and the only reason I'd

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-14 Thread owenb
Andrei Raevsky wrote: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/newsletter/sn030724 There cash flow may be positive but their credibility is questionable. Having searched out there U. S. headquarters (626-292-6290) I learned that it has been closed. If you want to contact them you better

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Weiss
Andrei Raevsky wrote: I bought the Definative Manual and as soon as I got it the pages began to fall out. Phone calls to and e-mails have been unsucessful. They have fairly well closed all lines of communications except if you want to buy something. But beware if you want