Author: Don Dailey
Date: 14:33:12 06/24/98
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On June 24, 1998 at 17:29:23, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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. Good to have you back Thorsten, we've missed you. Did you go on vacation? - Don
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