TightwadsThere's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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I manage a record label.Our CDs are sold all over the world. Some sell better than others, as is the case with all record labels. Our distributor in the US insists on destroying surplus stock of titles that they can't sell, even though I ask them to resell them back to us so we can send them to another territory (like Germany or Japan) where these titles will sell (what's popular in Japan might not be popular in the US).
However, this US company is so bloody bogged down in beaurocracy ("our company has never done that before - we'll need to schedule a series of meetings to discuss it in 6 months time. In the meantime, we'll just smash up some more of these CDs") that it's proving impossible to get them to just send them back and let us resell them elsewhere. Eejits.
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