Cudos to Scientific Anglers!!
Glen Weaver stoped by today on his way to his job at Eagle Village to talk about the Fish-In with the girls last month.
Now SA had donated the rods, reels, etc to help get the program started. Glen showed me a box of SA flylines, leaders, tipet material and insect repellant he had just been given by SA. There had to be close to $2,000.00 worth of equipment in that box.
They want to donate 24 float tubes also but have to work out the liability problem.
What a company! They will get all the business I can give them!
I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here!
Who cares if people think it’s a marketing ploy? S.A. might be spending a few bucks to promote themselves but if that gear attracts
a few new flychuckers out of the next generation they’re spending that money to promote us and our sport.
Besides I would rather see a company spend advertising money in direct action to promote
our sport than in another format that I will glance at and then forget.
It is always hard to judge one’s motivation. It is easier to judge one’s actions. SA did donate, others did not. Nice to know that as my rods are lined with SA. Now lets all say “THANK YOU SA”
Rich,
Understood about budget, but I call it “positive advertising”. It beats the heck out of destroying a vehicle by dropping from a helicopter or something like that. I much prefer to hear a company giving product for a good cause rather than wasting product in order to sensationalize an ad.
Again…GOOD for SA!
Mike
what difference does it make of SA’s motivation for the donation? of course the money is budgeted as advertising, and of course its something that will get word out about their products. it will also produce new customers, such as those young ladies Jack is referring to, as well as a few of us who’ve gotten that “warm, mushy feeling” from reading this post. they do run a “for profit” business, and to expect them not to make a profit is simply ludicrous.
however, the motivations are not the point. the ends most certainly justify the motivations in this situation. they went far above and beyond any reasonable call of duty in this effort, and because of that, they have earned me as a customer, and i wasnt even involved in the project. i for one, will promote and purchase their equipment more readily, having read this topic, and they deserve every cent i and any others spend for it. ill even promote them to my friends 'round here, and use this as good advertising for them.
GOOD FOR SCIENTIFIC ANGLERS!!! its about time a good company turned a profit in such a respectable manner…
[This message has been edited by tyflier (edited 13 July 2005).]
Heck, if they were REALLY out to advertise their products, they’d have also included jackets and/or caps. Even at that, who cares? Does it matter whether the equipment new fly fishers used to learn the sport was provided to get the name out of one company? I don’t think so. Good for SA and hopefully the other FF related companies are doing similar things even if we don’t hear about them.
youd think if it was a “publicity stunt” we would have heard about it from SA, rather than an un-biased third party with the materials in posession and nothing to gain or lose .
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