Re: New Coax Connector & Adapter Catalog Now Available

A couple of years ago, another microwave components company posted a pointer to their website, ISTR on sci.electronics.components, stating that their inventory was in MS Excel format. They got jumped on, and to give him his due, the man from the company responded with a measured defense, which led to quite a protracted discussion. Cutting to the chase, a few days later, he announced that, in the interests of settling things, they had put both plain text and PDF versions of their inventory on their site, and were pleased and amazed that it had pushed them right to the top of the search engine rankings. Searching for individual part numbers now led straight to them.

The moral is clear. Function beats form hands down.

My 2-year old Mozilla can't even begin reading this site- kicks out with error msg I've never seen before, something like: "can't enter site; some data may have been transferred".

Hire 'one true way' M$ heads to work for peanuts to create/maintain your website and you loose potential customers like this. They're trying to sell hardware fer xsakes!

BTW, I am looking, once again, for 3/4 inch coax connectors for nitrogen-cell CATV cable which was free, but sorry you can't have any of our connectors......

The all too common focus on Form Instead Of Function. What the pain must be to view that web site over dial-up... This is telling: " 00898 hits since June 7, 2005 " (Most of which are probably NG readers checking on your complaint. :-)

My non-commercial web site gets more hits than that PER DAY.

I run several different web browsers on my linux box here for those occasions when I MUST get in to see a web site. Usually, tho', I don't waste my time -- I just click off somewhere else...

The most infuriating are the home pages consisting of NOTHING but flash eye-candy. (The plus there is that type of web site rarely gets into the Google lists.....)

Jonesy -- who truly believes in KISS.

I ran into an electronics wholesale website that was built entirely in flash I had updated the crappy Macromedia Flash software less than a week before, and it was out of date already so I e-mailed the webmaster and told them I wouldn't install more software on an already full hard drive to buy parts that were available from people who really wanted to sell, not just advertise. I wonder if they fixed the site, or went out of business? I know a lot of people who won't wait 10 minutes per page to download to be able to look for parts.

You emailed the wrong fella. The webmaster's Prime Directive is to protect and expand the webmaster's job. You need to get the message to the folks who lay awake at night -- wondering how (if) they can stay in business.

More than installing "...more software on an already full hard drive...", I'm tired of spend a large percentage of my "computing time" constantly updating my system(s). Imagine, if you will, devoting that kind of effort on your car, your TV, or your HVAC -- just to get the same 'utility' out of it tomorrow that you got out of it yesterday. sigh...

Jonesy

The webmaster was the only address I could find without installing the software and all of the blind e-mails to info@, sales@ and other common business addresses all bounced. it doesn't really matter, because I can't remember the name of the company, even though their flashy trashy website is supposed to make you want to come back again and again.

Well, if "sales@" bounces, they can't be all that bothered about doing business...

That was the way I felt about them, too. They probably had a Javascript you had to use to reply directly, buried somewhere under all of their Flash trash. No matter, the site was enough to convince me they didn't want my business.

The OP has just posted a similar ad in misc.industry.electronics.marketplace. Email address, phone and fax, street address, but *NO WEB URL*

Crossposted to all the original groups except this one.

Maybe somebody is taking notice ;-)

I think this is a new name for Pasternac Enterprises. It has the same posting style of Murray Pasternac who spammed the newsgroups for years with his vacuum tube collection ads.