P3D Re: good news about Qualex stereo processing!

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:32 PM 1/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Emil Volcheck wrote:
>> 
>> I spoke to Earline Pearson this evening.  She handles all stereo
>> processing at the Qualex Dallas facility.  Here are a few points
>> that we discussed:
>[snip]
>> 4) They average about 3 stereo processing orders per week.  Although there
>> has been some discussion about cancelling this service, Earline thinks
>> they will continue this for the forseeable future.
>
>3 orders per week???  That's 156 rolls per year.  This is hardly
>plausible, IMO.  It very much highlights the point I tried to
>make some time back that a bulk order of 100 rolls of film for
>stereo processing would serve as a wake-up call to them that there
>is more stereo photo activity going on than they realize.  I am
>fairly certain that the estimate of 3 rolls per week is a product
>of the drop-in-the-bucket (or drop-in-the bathtub!) effect that
>I wanted to counteract by assembling a large order to submit at
>one time.

Submitting a large bunch at one time will only show them that someone has
organized a massive effort.  What they want to see is steady, on-going
business, month in and month out, over a period of time.

I'm tempted to suggest that, un-competitive as it may seem, all of us who
send our film out for commercial mounting should pick one or two places and
give them all our business.  Then they would have the justification to
improve their service.  If we're spread out across a half dozen or more
different labs, then they will all see stereo as a meager portion of their
business.

-pd

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