The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Those old music charts you used to spend so much timelooking at?
yes they were rigged.
It goes like this, certain record shops had little computers with bar-code readers, and every time a record was sold, its bar-code went through the machine. This was later downloaded late at night via its little built in modem, to the chart compiling people.
so far so good.
except the reps that left records into the shops would also leave a certain amount of "freebies" and certain staff members who got those "freebies" also had a little bit of paper (hidden out of site beside the computer) with bar-codes on it, and every now and again, a "sale" would be recorded. So whoever was getting "plugged" that week, "sold" more copies.
And you know those "bargain bins" you used to see? yes, they were full of all the copies they did not actually sell.
I dare say this practise still goes on even today, I don't know though as I have not been in a record shop for 3 years.
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 17:03,
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