Wondering how many others are still ST hubless while they wait for Samsung’s European Word of Mouth marketeers to umm… open their mouths…
Spent months waiting and waiting for ST to give availability in the UK and right on the cusp, a couple of days after the release date was announced, having signed up to every single Samsung/ST mailing list I could find, I got an amazing email… Samsung would like to offer you the opportunity to trial a ST Hub… wow.
Clicking the link it was actually only the “opportunity” to apply to participant in a Word of Mouth campaign being run by TheInsiders for Samsung.
"…Sign up now… fill in the questionaire and we will get back to you… " with the promise of benefits over and above just going down to my local Currys and coming home with my new toy… it was a close thing but I thought what the hell and went for it.
Couple of days later another email… please invite all of your friends because we need more applicants… which was a bit odd as they still hadnt confirmed whether I had been succesful or not and here they were asking me to add to the competition
So I wrote and told them how odd it seemed and had a great email dialogue with one of TheInsiders crew…
And then… silence…
The start of the trial was due 16th September though I understand that was to be delayed by a couple of days while they got the extra applicants vetted.
And here we are on the 23rd nothing…not even a reply to my last email sent after the 16th just asking when we would know one way or the other.
I mean its possible that I didnt get accepted into the trial and thats fine, I’ll just go buy a ST hub… ALL GOOD…
But I dont actually know… I mean do I go buy a hub starter kit and if I get accepted work out which friend to donate one to… or do I wait… Yes I know first world problem… but you know grrr!!
Thing is you would think Samsung would pick a marketing company that knew not to disencentivize the very people that its picked as possible new technology word spreaders, especially when one or two simple blog posts on their own marketing site would have let people know whether to wait or not…
But I do wonder how many other UK based fans of ST… postponed buying a hub and are still waiting for Samsungs marketing company to get back to them… I mean has this cost Samsung thousands of day one sales or just hundreds ?