At 02:20 PM 12/2/98 -0800, Per Lindgren wrote:

>Can someone please tell me how to get a Winkler catalog, and what is it?
I am very curious now, as it is referred to all the time. I've searched
the

>net, I cant even seem to find anything useful

I classic, German, contra-entrepreneurial style, Winkler (of Herne
Germany) is woefully unaware of how Americans expect service-minded
organizations should operate. For example, unless you speak German and
call them directly on the phone, they typically won't respond (or take
forever to do so) to email, faxes, or letters.

Detlev Hanschke has been trying to get permission to publish the Winkler
catalog on the web (I've even offered to help him do the conversion) --
and Winkler's only concern is that it might "cut into his business"
because he sells those catalogs at a profit. Go figure!!! (who said
German's weren't a bit crazy -- they'd
<bold><underline>double</underline></bold> their business if they gave
the information away for free!). Achh!

Cheers,

<bold>Michael J. Sullivan

</bold><italic>Director of Catalog Design

Open Market, Inc.

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