Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 14:29:23 06/24/98
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On June 24, 1998 at 07:01:41, Bert Seifriz wrote: >I agree with Ed, that this statistics is not true. Question is >how did they find out? We were not asked. Nobody knows >for sure. I know how they do it. 10h: Mr.Frederic Friedel, boss of ChessBase, publisher =boss of CSS wakes up in the morning. he gets a telephone call from Matthias Wuellenweber. "Hey - Fred, we sell many Fritz units this month, the 1st rank in the ssdf-list was worth all the preparations and negotiations we have done. I am sure we have 50 % of the market since Genius is no more a concurrent. " Friedel: "Really - hm. I think you are right." Later, 12h, Frederic sits down behind his PC and types: Fritz5 50% ... ... So - the company writes their own statistics, and publish them in their own newsmagazin. It is THE SAME PERSON ! And the intention ? If somebody reads it, he thinks: wow - 50% have bought this product. And I don't have it ! I need it. This magazine says it. This was the fourth positive euphoric article about Fritz. It cannot be weak ! And customer-lemming #52335498 buys fritz. Thats "journalism" ! "Neutral" "journalists" publish "facts". Impressive.
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