Originally Posted by
michaelscycles
I agree, they make products for this purpose so why not use them. Why do so many people think they know more then the manufactures who make this stuff.
Teachers lesson plans have overt and covert goals and objectives. Politicians legal and political maneuvers have overt and covert goals and objectives. Marketers have overt and covert goals in their product placement and advertisements.
Spoke Prep Overt = Lube and Anti-Seize
Spoke Prep Covert = Hide Poor Tensioning Skills Long Enough to Escape Blame
Now read very carefully the following:
Doesn't matter whether I agree or not. Point is - both angles sell - which is hard to do for any one product. The product moves - the manufacturer is successful and makes money. As always, and with any product - it is "buyers beware".
More importantly, I'll admit - even though I don't agree with the existence of the product - that the marketer saw the opportunity before I, analyzed it before I, and executed on it before I.
In many ways, that marketer was smarter than I.
In our free capitalist society, score one for the marketer.
=8-)