My First Experience of the InternetWe remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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Back in 2003 or soI was working for Onetel. Broadband had just been invented (or so it seemed) and we were selling it a 27.99 a month for 512k. 57.99 would get you 1 meg.
One day we were pulled into a meeting. We were going to host a big promotion on our Broadband in the Sunday Times. A disc was being sent out where Dialup users would put it in their PC and it would take a few details and order Broadband. 1 month free was on offer. no connection fee (usually £60) free Modem (usually £60) with no quible return offer if you werent satisfied. Extra staff were called in. our boss sent out for Pizza for everyone.
Massive Flop.
Instead about 7 people actually rang up - 3 of which took up the offer. We didnt receive any offers other the net, apart from a few bewildered customers who seemed to think the CD would 'switch on' the broadband on their line. (infact it would take about 14 days for it to go live on the customers phone line.
Over the course of the next week our sales guys took full use of the offer in the system to give everyone and sundry free modems and connection.
fast forward 9 months, the department was in the process of relocating, redundancies being made etc. I was cleaning out some cupboards and came across a large metal locker, upon opening it I found 40- maybe 50 Broadband Modems (Speedtouch 330's)all in various stages of worth. Some in boxes, some in plastic bags. All had been sent back by customers. At the time this was Aladins cave. These Modems were worth ALOT. My boss just happened to be standing next to me and gave me a little talk that - he knew how many were in there, and that they would be sent back to the manufacturer...... yeh right.
(, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 12:21, 2 replies)
they misteriously vanishedbasically the story is, Onetel found it hard selling Broadband. and got lots of returns.
P!ss poor story to be honest. But theres only so much you can actually talk about on this subject.
(, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 15:37, closed)
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