Banya went back to Czech shortly after writing this letter to Nintendo, complaining about Wii availability:
Nintendo wrote back a little while later with a form letter apologizing and saying (quite defensively, I might add) that they didn’t generate the shortage for publicity. what?
Banya got a kick out of this one. He actually had to go research the mailing address (I think he ended up pulling it off a Whois record for a domain name) because the company he wanted desperately to write to didn’t have any street address published anywhere.
You can tell from the title that this letter Banya wrote was all about computer “soft wares.” Obviously.
Our good friend Natasha was at our place getting drunk from our wine, and was laughing her ass off at the Banya letters, so she decided to write one for herself.
Her English is fairly good so it isn’t as funny, but it’s incredible level of honesty really grabs me:
Unfortunately they must not enjoy not-throwing-up customers because they didn’t write back. :(
We were enjoying Banya’s letters over a few beers one night and thought it would be wise to explain to Banya how, in North America, we have “crazy cat ladies” that drive their cats around, put them on leashes, give them huggles 24/7, and best of all, write letters for their cats behalf.
Banya thought this was a brilliant idea and immediately picked up the pen.
No response from catfood people :(
Banya is a real man and isn’t afraid to show it. Normally he doesn’t use deoderant in Czech, but once he came here he realizes it is polite to use it so he’s trying.
It doesn’t help when it breaks down too quickly though. “Why is this?!” he asks, and I honestly have no idea so I told him to write a letter:
Banya was written back a heartfelt apology on a hand-signed letter, along with two free coupons to Gillette deoderant products!
Let’s see the response.
Bah, I didn’t scan it because it was a standard ‘Dear Sir/Madam, we are sorry our product didn’t meet your expectations, blah blah blah, we hope this doesn’t stop you from using our products in the future.’ The only thing that set this apart was the signature wasn’t photocopied. :P
I’ll see if I can find it somewhere in this stack of junk on my desk but it might take me a few days.
Time for a SPOOKY HALLOWEEN BANYA POST
Except it isn’t spooky at all.
Banya was telling me these stories about how Kelloggs wasn’t in Czech for the longest time (as they were occupied by the Ruskies) and they were quite excited to get their CornFlakes. “Go write Kellogs a letter then!” I urged. Hooray!
Kellog’s generously wrote back with a standardized form letter, enclosing 4 (four) coupons for free Kellog’s products… Any product you wish… with no expiration date! Banya is sure to enjoy these coupons to purchase his Cereal of Freedom.
on November 14th, 2007 at 5:38 pm #
Off topic here, but I can’t seem to find a way to contact Weasel ;) What is the WordPress plug-in you use to show comments here on the main page underneath the posts? It didn’t seem to be in your “WordPress Plugins We Use” list…
on November 14th, 2007 at 7:45 pm #
*chuckles* I do have an email address in the footer of the page. But I put the comments in as a custom edit to the wordpress theme files… If you think you can handle HTML editing drop me a line and I’ll give you some pointers.