Minkus Supreme Being Discontinued By Scott?

I was on the Amos Advantage site and was looking at the Minkus Supreme page listings. Parts 1A and 1B are showing as discontinued and there is no longer an option for ordering parts 2A, 2B, or 3.

Is Amos really going to eliminate this album? Has anyone seen news of this in Linn's?

Dale

A e-mail sent to Amos customer service received this response a little while ago. Unfortunate.

Since many of the supplements are/were "available on demand" it sounds as if the needed paper stock is unavailable for production. Perhaps that is a short term Covid production issue.

Then again the albums were discontinued more than 15 years ago. Eventually supplement page demand will drop to the point it is no longer cost effective to produce them.

"Discontinued" has a finality about it... once people see that, the product gets written off in their minds, and they go elsewhere. Sellers don't use "discontinued" unless they mean it. Any temporary issue, and the thing to say would have been "Temporarily Unavailable" or "Out of Stock."

These pages are gone.

On the Amos website, the pages are either available, available on demand or backordered; no hints of death yet. If they cannot get the blank pages of paper, they can't print supplement pages. The fact car makers can get computer chips means they can't make cars now but that does not mean forever; same with paper acquisition.

That said, Minkus may be reaching the same fate as Washington Press and their White Ace Album line--gone but not forgotten.

This just looks like a basic English grammar issue -- yet again. In a society where the average person (and average employee) does not have a very strong grasp of the English language, you get confusing statements like these.

Here are my guesses at translating what this person is trying to say:

"We do not have the pages to produce any longer."
Either she means they don't have the original page layouts to copy any longer (which is 100% unlikely) -- or they don't have the "paper" to print them on. I'm going to guess this person thinks "pages" and "paper" mean the same thing. They don't.

"As for now, the[y] are discontinued."
Same as the above this time confusing "discontinued" with "temporarily unavailable," an entirely different thing. "As for now" and "discontinued" in the same statement make no sense.

Sadly you run into this all the time with people unable to communicate clearly and ending up misleading people. After awhile it gets tiresome saying "I'm sorry, I don't understand." My personal favorite is saying "disinterested" for "uninterested". The first means "neutral," the other "couldn't care less," totally different things. Okay, I feel a little better now.

If they are printing on demand and can make money on each unit printed I see no reason to "discontinue". Of course if it is not profitable "bombs away".

It could also be due to a break down of equipment, like to drill the paper. Supply chain issues are often hard to ID by those not in the loop.
Don

It may help to ask someone else at Scott.

IHobb says:

After a couple follow-up e-mails with Amos press, I received the following this morning.




It seems as if their print on demand process involved photocopying a hard-copy set of the pages, and these have been lost or damaged at least partially.

I asked if they were taking steps to prevent something similar from happening to the Scott International but received no answer to that question.

Dale

Whomever answered the query from Amos is clueless. The line was not purchased in the 90's and retailers have nothing to sell other than current supplements, blank pages and binders.

Can you imagine if some ancient Egyptian or religious monk wrote something like that in a tomb or on a scroll? Modern scholars could make a career trying to interpret and debate the meaning.

-OP



-DrewM


Okay DrewM, I will play along....

Amos Press (Scott) and its folks can say or do anything they want, anything at all when they believe they have the power to discontinue a Supreme Being at will. Heck, if you have the power to cancel a god, you can do or say what you want.

Thank you, thank you, I will be here all week.

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