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Subject: 5 stars guaranteed to any answerer *****5*****5
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: googel-ga
List Price: $2.00
Posted: 03 Jun 2003 01:43 PDT
Expires: 03 Jun 2003 07:03 PDT
Question ID: 212356
Version 2 , due to remaining open questions.
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Please answer/comment the following comment made to  Question ID:
212134. Please address first the type of products shown at
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=388925&CATID=100206
 
" 
Hi,  
  
I believe I have seen you posting a few other questionaires for your 
flossing tool.  Are you aware that numerous companies have patents for
similar items that are already sold at major retail chains?  If you 
honestly plan to market this item, have you taken into account your 
competition? 
  
First off, from a patent standpoint, it appears that there are 
NUMEROUS products that are similar to your design.  In addition, many
of these are already pattented. 
  
Next off, most major chain stores apready carry some of these 
products.  You need to ask yourself why would they purchase from you 
instead of their local grocery store or drugstore?  What makes your 
product better and easier to get? 
  
Some of your competitors include  
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=357331&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=2385&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=388969&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=388925&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=388923&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=2387&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=2178&CATID=100206
http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=44598&catid=1152&trx=PLST-0-SRCH&trxp1=1152&trxp2=44598&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-SRCH
  
I am not trying to rain on your parade, but I think you have a number
of issues to think through. 
"

Request for Question Clarification by serenata-ga on 03 Jun 2003 02:19 PDT
Hello Googel-ga:

It isn't quite clear what you are asking in your question, however:

It is true that there are dozens of dental floss holders, some much
simpler to use than the instructions on your own, and others a bit
more complicated.

A very quick check with the United States Patent and Trademark Office
show about half a dozen (6) have patents issued and as many with
patents pending.

Yours would, indeed, be another dental floss holder, competing with
several others.

As for marketing: does the world need another dental floss holder?
Probably not! However, that would be where your marketing efforts came
into place to distinguish the *features* yours has that others don't,
and then turn every one of those features into a *benefit* to make
your product more attractive to the consumers. (For example, yours is
smaller than others, it is flat and therefore can be more easily
carried and more discretely used, etc.).

As I said, I do not know what, exaclty, you are expecting for an
answer, so clarification by you would help any Google Answers
Researcher to adequately address your concerns.

Thanks,
Serenata

Clarification of Question by googel-ga on 03 Jun 2003 02:46 PDT
Hello serenata-ga,

It would be nice if you could give some of your views re. the
competition mentioned in the cited comment (of Question ID: 212134) ,
starting with the comparing of the product presented in  Question ID:
212134 with the  disposable flossers like
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=388925&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=357331&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=388969&CATID=100206

Thnk you
g

Clarification of Question by googel-ga on 03 Jun 2003 06:13 PDT
Suggestion:

An answer to this question could include 

--a comparing of the product presented in  Question ID:212134 against
disposable products like those shown at
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=388925&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=357331&CATID=100206
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?PRODID=388969&CATID=100206

--a recommandation of the answerer of its preferred product/s from the
above;

--a guess of the answerer re. the percentage of string-floss users
preferring to carry in their pocket or have always in there immediate
vecinity the product presented in  Question ID:212134
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