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Subject: Re: JetBlue starts charging $7 for a pillow Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:28 -0500



mrtravel blabbles:

> AZ Nomad wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:31:56 -0700, mrtravel wrote:
> >
> >>Brian K wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>I bet that the next thing they do is to install pay toilets!
> >>>
> >
> >
> >>Why? Jet Blue has never given away blankets and pillows.
> >>Now they are charging you $7 and you keep them.
> >>What's the problem?
> >
> >
> > They seem to want to alienate their customers.
>
> How is selling something useful going to alienate people.
> It's not like it is something that was free and then they started to
> charge people.
>
> They remind me of a nice mexican
> > restaurant that had build a new location and in an attempt to sqeeze
more money
> > out of the customers, started charging for the chips'n'salsa served
before the
> > meal. I didn't return to that restaurant for 5 years and their stunt
probably
> > cost them $500 of business from just me and I'm sure I wasn't the only
one to
> > think that there are tons of restaurants just as good, . this place.
I
> > returned after five years to check them out and they had dropped the
idiotic
> > practice.
> >
> > I wonder how much business JB is going to lose over such pennypinching.
> > What can they think of next: pay toilets?
>
> Again... it's a one time charge to sell you a pillow and blanket.
> You can bring your own, or buy these and reuse them later.
> It's not like they used to give them away before.


Somebody should put a pillow over yer face, puke...


--
Best
Greg

" I find Greg Morrow lowbrow, witless, and obnoxious. For him to claim that
we are some
kind of comedy team turns my stomach."
- "cybercat" to me on rec.food.cooking