YIIIPPEEEEE !! Received my Free Kodak Film today! =) !!!!!!

Hey endustry, where do you get all those half-empty glasses? Thrift store? Sure, it's from a MARKETING department. As much as I think marketing folks are mostly tools, how else do companies get their stuff out these days?

Another question: Knowing all this, WHY DID YOU ASK FOR "NOT FREE" FILM IN THE FIRST PLACE? You took the bait and now you're whining. PUH-leeze.
 
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The problem about receiving the wrong film type is 2-fold. The offer was for trial film. Seeing as some folks don't own medium format cameras, there's no way they can try this new film. It's like receiving a bunch of free Windows software when you only own a Mac. It's free but...you can't use it...therefore, it's useless/pointless to have. When I hear about medium format owners receiving 135 film, you know Kodak f'ed up...it wasn't just a "we ran out of the other stuff" situation.

Two, now Kodak has our addresses/names/business names. This, I'd say, is the biggest reason to complain. They did not pull through on their end of the deal. I think I'll contact the Marketing manager and tell him that the terms and conditions were broken and therefore, remove my address from Kodak's mailing list.
 
The insanity of the free film flub continues for me and mine. I told my mom about the free film offer, she went to the site, and got in on it. On Wednesday, just before she, and my dad left to go to my sister's for thanksgiving, she received her "tube" of film. Yep you guessed it, 4 rolls of 120 :bang: . I'm Quite aware the film was free, and that the e-mails will probably be relentless, but this to me is a major snafu on Kodak's part. If they were going to only accept the first 22,000 people who asked, then they should have done so, and ended the offer when that number was reached. Instead they decided to allow an additional 11,000 people to participate, and then, it seems, that hardly anyone received the film that they chose which, in some cases, lead to the incorrect film that was received being thrown in the garbage, or possibly in a drawer and forgotten about. So I find this to be, IMHO, a bad marketing move for Kodak. You can't win people over by screwing up. I would have liked to have tried this film, but I'm just not in the market for a Medium Format camera right now. Rant ends.
 
What's funny to me is that here we have a forum where people buy, sell, trade, etc., and it just seems to me it would be fairly easy for people to swap film around, etc., as chrish is requesting.

endustry: no sauce before I logged in/posted. If you're accusing me of being (a) drunk, then you might want to re-think that. I apologize that my remarks came across as condescending to you.

I understand everyone's disappointment about not getting the film they requested, but I don't recall a guarantee of delivery of one's preference in the offer, and, as was pointed out, (glass half full alert!) Kodak went the "extra mile" in fulfilling 50% more orders than they anticipated.

While it seems like a lot of people on RFF requested free film, the number are statistically insignificant given the total shipments. So to say this is a "bad marketing move by Kodak" or that "hardly anyone" received what they requested is, IMO, a stretch. Statistically, we just don't have enough information.

I'll be the first to admit that it hasn't been executed flawlessly and that I'd be much happier if it had been. And I have no doubt that they will be more than happy to remove anyone's name from the mailing list. I think by law they have to do that if requested.

My guess is that Kodak had a marketing fulfillment company to manage the process, which is SOP in these kinds of campaigns. I can imagine that there were some disconnects in communication between EK and that company which often happens but is nonetheless unfortunate and not a good reflection on EK.

Since I'm in town and it's a local call, I'm going to call in the next day or so and get some more information.
 
At the rate it is arriving, there's one guy somewhere stuffing boxes in tubes. To him all boxes are the same. He didn't even get the count right in all cases.

Maybe we need a new forum: Trade your free stuff. 😀
 
I still have not been sent my four rolls ! So far all I'm getting is TONS of spam in my email for Kodak digital crap. All i wanted was the free film offer !!
This is no way to promote Kodak film products. From now on it's Fuji film for me !!

Charles
 
ROTFLMAO! Right now I'd say it's either California or Oregon for the best pinot, with Oregon in the lead, but CA coming up fast.

But watch out for Niagara peninusla and Prince Edward County; they're just getting started.

Trius, longing for a vaca in Burgundy...
 
not having received "free" goods by mail is hardly something to complain about. receiving something you cannot use at no cost to yourself is also not something to complain about.

Who raised (some of) you people?!?
 
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