Kick coal!
It is officially Christmas, in Australia, Christmas Eve in the United States. The most glorious days of the year when friends and families come together, share love, gifts, with each other, sing and smile. Peace and joy gripping hold, pushing stinginess and resentment into the cold night air everywhere.
Everywhere except Santa Monica, that is, where the World Surf League finds its headquarters and pre-revelation Scrooge is worshipped like a saint.
For directly ahead of yuletide, the WSL sent out a survey to its dearest fans but I will let one of them pick the saga up from here.
I got an email that asked me to take a survey about the WSL. Normally, I would ignore it and not bother, but they offered a FREE hydro flask for my time and effort. No “while supplies last.” No “limited to first X amount of surveys.” Just fill out a survey, get your hydro flask.
So, I did it. I like free stuff and I know the value of a hydro flask. I guess that should have been a red flag (how would it be financially viable?), but I carried on. I finished the survey and it said, “click here to get your Hydro Flask and use this code at check out.” It rerouted me to the WSL store. Things are looking great. I selected my water bottle. I entered the code and it was not accepted. The code reached its “USAGE LIMIT”????
This was my response to the WSL.
“I took your survey. Then, I tried to use the code and it didn’t work. Said the code used it’s usage limit. Not cool. I will never fill out another survey for the WSL.”
I have not heard back yet. No E Lo saying “I’m sorry.” Crickets!!!
You can get away with a lot of stuff, but don’t offer me something for taking a survey and cheese out me!!!
Unbelievable.
Absolutely unbelievable.
David Lee Scales and I discussed, anyhow, along with WSL’s edict not to say Joel Tudor’s name and the value of cashmere. Gather around the Christmas tree and listen.
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What Van’s collab did everyone else get for Christmas?
Cheers twillsy
U2
Whoa Chas, could the irony here be any richer? Seems as though Elo took a chapter right out of your partner Rielly’s playbook. Derek’s well known industry-wide penchant for rampant shysterism, reneging and welching is right up there in the league of Bernie Madoff and Bankman Fried.
Similar thoughts crossed my mind, when I noticed this article, and I was going to post a similar reply. Alas, you already called DR out on it. Lol
Im a billionaire in many countries. Just not that one or this one
Erik Lolo…
ELo…The Man Who Ruined the Shaka
Pour one out for the Shaka my homies…it’s dead dead dead
Thanks Eric you fucking tool, but then again it was probably time to retire it anyway.
“Flipping EVERYBODY the bird, is the most honest thing one can do!”~ ‘Scorn
a Christmas Scrooge…he seems to be….
Merry Christmas Sam! Don’t drink too much eggnog.
Thank you c4,
I’ll try not to, and Merry Christmas also!
“Let me tell you something, my lad. When you’re walking home tonight
and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of
LOGANberries, don’t come crying to me.”
― ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’.
https://media.townhall.com/…
ELO is like Lucy with her football in Charlie Browns Christmas.
one is a legend…the other? a legend in his own mind.
This reminds me of the time I tried to get a harrier jet off Pepsi! They told me to fuck off, I respected them for that!
from the american institute of economic research: A Newer Brand of COke
In April 23, 1985, the
Coca-Cola CompanyASP made one of the biggest mistakes in American business history: it changed the formula forCoca-Cola.surf contests…2-man heats…Outraged consumers sent hate mail toCoca-Colaexecutives and hoarded “The Real Thing.”Coca-Colaexecutives had done their homework: taste tests revealed that people preferred the taste of “NewCoke,”format and the results suggested the new formula would better positionCokeASP relative to its closest competitor,Pepsi.WSA .They corrected their mistake pretty quickly and reintroduced the originalformula as “
Coca-ColaSmirnoff Classic.” Van’s Triple Crown was rebranded asCoke IIThe Masters and ultimately discontinued.Business history is littered with products like New Coke. The Ford Edsel flopped. Crystal Pepsi comes back in limited-edition runs periodically, but all that’s really left of it is its clever use of Van Halen’s song “Right Now” and a memory. No amount of clown-powered corporate muscle could make McPizza, the McDLT, onion nuggets, the Arch Deluxe, McCrab, McSpaghetti, McHotDog, chicken fajitas, or any of
McDonald’s other failed menu items work. People criticize McDonald’s and other fast food outlets for not offering healthier options, but it isn’t for lack of trying.
Sign up HERE for a free vile of New Coke!
This is now SOP for all big companies. Lie, cheat and steal. “Customer service” is a thing of the past. If they steal a lot of your money you can probably get a free lawyer to help (like if your insurance company refuses to pay $100k in medical bills). Otherwise, in the USA, you can try your state’s Attorney General but they usually suck.