First American Scientific Corp. (fka FASC)

[sunspotter]

I read your post, and I have to say that if the KDS machine lives up to its billing, that a kind of "try before you buy scheme" that leasing would equate to would be a great way of getting market acceptance and ultimately increasing sales.

I wondered, therefore, suspecting as I do that in fact the KDS machine does not live up to its billing how long it would be before someone loyal to FASC's "management" suggested that it wasn't such a great idea on some spurious grounds or other. We now know the answer:

18 minutes and 56 seconds.

The trouble is, you see, that effectively, FASC have been running such a scheme for years now: buy one KDS machine before you buy all the others that we're going to PR as being in the pipeline. Pay us later if you want.

And of course for reasons that may be readily surmised, not only do these follow-up orders fail to materialize, sometimes even the original machine gets sent back.

If the technology doesn't work as it's supposed to, then no number of smart marketing ploys will compensate.

I believe that's the situtation with the KDS machine.