asterisk users - Oct 2004 - RE: [OT] Sparco Office Supplies... (yeah right)

Come on, this guy accomplished exactly what he wanted to... He got everyone
going to Google and searching for Sparco...

Don't buy in... just press delete and move on.

~c
> 
> I don't want to even guess what kinda response this is gonna get... did
> you
> even bother using Google? The first result is a store that sells sparco
> office supplies... perhaps badgering them could turn up a lead?
> 
>

Christopher Jacob wrote:
> Come on, this guy accomplished exactly what he wanted to... He got everyone
> going to Google and searching for Sparco...
> 
> Don't buy in... just press delete and move on.
> 
> ~c
> 
Thanks a lot for that [bleep]hole!  My request is perfectly valid.

I've been on this list for several months now, I could have easily 
requested this help then, I at that point would have expected an answer 
like yours.  However, I COULD CARE LESS IF YOU ACTUALLY BUY FROM SPARCO.COM.

I simply work here, I don't own the company.  You buying from sparco 
versus any other Ingram Micro (TD, MA, D&H, Synnex, etc.) reseller 
doesn't make me any happier (except that it might help me get a bonus, 
yeah right!).

By the way, I would venture a guess that there are approximately 100 
authorized distribution resellers on this list, PLEASE buy from them if 
you think that was the purpose of my original post, PLEASE.  I really 
really really mean it, go buy from them!  If you'd like, I'll even 
compile a list and post it on the wiki!  Would you like that?  I'll do 
it, if you want me to!

I'm not going to get into a pissing contest with you, but next time you 
assume something like you just did, remember what assuming anything does 
to u and me! [*** + * + ** = assume]

PS: My boss would [*will*] kill me if [*when*] he reads this email.  He 
regularly googles through mailing list archives, so he'll read this 
email and notice that I said I don't care, but you see, it's his 
company, not mine, I simply do my job as requested, which is to ensure 
that our systems run, and run cheaply - nothing more - nothing less.

Enough ranting, but I just had to piss into the wind for a second.

Thanks [ a lot ],
Chris

-- 
Christopher L. Wade                     Unistar-Sparco Computers, Inc.
Senior Systems Administrator                            dba Sparco.com
Email: clwade@sparco.com                             7089 Ryburn Drive
Phone: (901) 872 2272 / (800) 840 8400            Millington, TN 38053
Fax:   (901) 872 8482                                              USA

Christopher Jacob wrote:
> Come on, this guy accomplished exactly what he wanted to... He got everyone
> going to Google and searching for Sparco...
> 
> Don't buy in... just press delete and move on.
> 
> ~c
Oh and by the way, I if I had wanted to you google for sparco, I would 
have omitted the entire discussion about filter the results against my 
signature, which, by the way, has full contact info for sparco.com.

Thank you, again [ a lot ]
Chris

-- 
Christopher L. Wade                     Unistar-Sparco Computers, Inc.
Senior Systems Administrator                            dba Sparco.com
Email: clwade@sparco.com                             7089 Ryburn Drive
Phone: (901) 872 2272 / (800) 840 8400            Millington, TN 38053
Fax:   (901) 872 8482                                              USA

> Come on, this guy accomplished exactly what he wanted to... He got everyone
> going to Google and searching for Sparco...
> 
> Don't buy in... just press delete and move on.
Why be so rough?  Sometimes finding information about a manufacturer can be
a real pain.  Heck, sometimes we have problems locating a customer's actual
corporate information, knowing the state and at least one variation.  What
real advantage is there to him to have people looking for Sparco-but-not-
his-Sparco?

Anyways, this appears to be "Sparco Products", selling a variety of
lines.

I happened to notice that Office Depot sells some of their stuff, such as
http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?id=551460&level=SK
so one technique might be to ramble on down to the local store and see if
you can find one, and see if it lists a state.  Then you can search the
business records for that state.

No stock symbol.

D&B lists 30 "Sparco"'s nationally.  You could try calling the
likely
ones.

I did find a few clues that suggested California, which leads us to
http://kepler.ss.ca.gov/corpdata/ShowAllList?QueryCorpNumber=C1179776
and that would be generally consistent, possibly some container importer.

Failing that, have your lawyer run a search.  Or pay a company with access
to those sorts of databases (the business equivalent of a "people
search"
type thing): http://www.search-ndr.com/ShowSearches.asp?goTo=4  for ex.
You can pretty much dredge up lots of references to any legitimate company.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance
[and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on
e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
apples.