letters not available
When I was a kid we used to get some candy (that weird extra dense refresher type candy) letters in little boxes, for some reason in West Country we could only ever get the numbers so with the help of my secretary (mum) I scrawled out a letter to who ever the company was asking why they only did numbers and wouldn't it be a good idea if they did letters as well as you could get letters in spaghetti.

Being an impatient little snotty kid I'd rush to the door every morning when the postie deposited his load through our slot. This went on for a few weeks before I got bored and refused to buy any of the letters on the principal that if they couldn't be bothered with me, I wouldn't bother with them.

One day a knock at the door and a parcel for little hamster, not only did they send a letter but a kilo...yes a whole KILO of letters to make up for the absence of said product in my local sweetshop, not only this but another whole kilo of the numbers!

The upshot of this is I had far too many to cope with but refused to share them with friends or family, happier than Gollum with his ring I hoarded my precious candy and pigged out on them for what must have been the whole summer holiday. By the time I returned to school I was sick of the damn things and to this day haven't eaten another one.

So good marketing ploy there losing a customer by being nice.
(bluehamster, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 12:31, Reply)