Large Scale Central

Marketing Crap from Kalmbach

General Discussion
#21
Dick Friedman said:
My, my. We certainly have thin skins here. Observing the Large Scalers of my acquaintance, I'd say we're all over 21 here. We know that unsolicited mail requires nothing from us.

End of story, if not hysteria. I got one. No big deal, thanks Kalmbach. I got the “bill,” too. No big deal, thanks Kalmbach.


Dick,

It’s not hysteria, it’s about reacting to the never ending deluge of advertisement. We all get unsolicited phone calls from telemarketers, 10 pounds of ads in the Sunday paper, 18 minutes of ads during a 1/2 hour TV show, roadside billboards so thick you can hardly see the sky, web browsing is an adventure in mind-numbing advertisements, and now, this, an unsolicited DVD followed up with a request to pay for it - enough is enough.

You can poke an old dog with stick just so long before he snaps at you - I think this DVD did it for a lot of us old dogs.

But I commend you on your unflappable demeanor - you left coast guys really are totally laid back - I guess the cold makes the rest of us a bit cranky.

#22

As I always say everything is a scam today. Its part of society today. Nothing we can do about it so we might as well get use to it. No different then all the junk mail we get, billboards we see, magazine adds. I have better things to worry about then a stupid cd in the mail. Since telamarketers cant call me anymore they have to resort to other ways.
Now what if they sent you a real nice engine to run on your tracks or they ent you a box of 10ft straights would you still react the same way?

#23

Since we heat with wood I don’t mind junk mail. It helps with lighting the stove. I just burned some 10 minutes ago!

#24

I’m right along with Doug here. We have open fires: we need a supply of junk mail to light them with. :slight_smile:

We don’t get these things from Kalmbach this side of the Atlantic however. But to put in a good word for Kalbmach I do find Classic Trains magazine most useful for learning about American railroads of earlier times.

#25

I think most of you guys are overreacting. I too received one of these unsolicited DVDs along with a “special” collector coin that was mine to keep whether or not I kept and paid fro the DVD or sent it back. I watched the DVD and was not interested in getting anymore so it went into the drawer with my other train related DVDs. It is a expensive way for Kalmbach to try and reach people but I wasn’t offeded by their attempt to reach me and expand the hobby. When I received the follow up “we haven’t heard from you” letter I read it and since I still wasn’t interested it went in to the woodstove.
Keep the video, send it back, trash it, it is your choice but don’t take offense to Kalmbach trying to appeal to you and possibly expand the hobby with a free gift. Just my 2 cents
Todd

#26

“Since telamarketers can’t call me anymore they have to resort to other ways.” Quote from Shawn’s post above.
Envy on my part! Ok, Shawn, fess up. How are you (were you) able to STOP the telemarketing phone calls?? Sure, We have proclaimed to telemarketers that we are on the NO CALL list. Yes, my guess is entering the NO CALL list simply gave a listing of our phone number to those who are going to call anyway – apart from the law.
What worked in New Jersey is welcomed out here in Rose Parade land!
Wendell

#27

We shut off the ringer on our house phone and only use it for the internet. When we got our cell phones I immediately put mine on the “no call” list and never get spam calls. Sara didn’t add hers for a year and gets a lof of spam calls. Go figure.

#28
Wendell Hanks said:
"Since telamarketers can't call me anymore they have to resort to other ways." Quote from Shawn's post above. Envy on my part! Ok, Shawn, fess up. How are you (were you) able to STOP the telemarketing phone calls?? Sure, We have proclaimed to telemarketers that we are on the NO CALL list. Yes, my guess is entering the NO CALL list simply gave a listing of our phone number to those who are going to call anyway -- apart from the law. What worked in New Jersey is welcomed out here in Rose Parade land! Wendell
With the use of cell phones today more and more people are disconnecting their home phones. I had mine dissconnected a few years ago. Its illegal for telamarketers to place automated calls to cell phones. (fedaral law) I have not had a call since my home phone was dissconnected.
#29

No land line for some years now.
I do get a few calls on my cell phone and occasionally on my VOIP service.

#30
Alan Lott said:
............. But to put in a good word for Kalbmach I do find Classic Trains magazine most useful for learning about American railroads of earlier times.
I even ordered the "CT first ten years" DVD, good stuff. They probably have a different marketing database for CT and TRAINS. :lol: :lol:

On those phone calls: ignore all the stuff from “out of area”, “unkown caller”, any of the toll free numbers and private calls. Works quite nicely for me.

#31

Darn ! Missing another freebie from Kalmbach geez cheap buggers obviously not sending out beyond the borders of the continental u.s.a. again ! discrimination !? Although it is probably full of old ads, and pop-ups too ?!

nite