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They had a couple of runs that faded in color when exposed to sunlight. Apparently the UV protectant additive was missing.
Story time....
Played a prodigy sponsored tourney in AZ years ago. Was ran by the brother of a Prodigy ex pro.........
Finished 3rd in advanced (or 4th)My plastic grocery bag of predetermined discs had a sticker that said $76 value..
I got 4 prodigy discs.... two of them were base plastic...
A friend got 2nd in AM2....his bag said $106....he got 5 discs...two base plastic... he actually drove back and asked for more plastic or if a mistake was made....super cringe... I would never do that.
Even tho I really like the TD and still do... it gave me another reason to stay away from Prodigy.
In the end, I don't hate their naming because I don't get it, I hate it because the vast majority of customers don't get it.
D2, D2V2, D2Max, D2New, D2Pro, D2Signature. 6 different discs
As a retailer, this was the most frustrating. In my experience, in the years of carrying Prodigy, most of Prodigy throwers that came in here (including die hards), didn't have a clue about any of the differences. People walk in and buy a D2V2. They come back and complain that it flies nothing like the D2 that they lost. I have to explain it to them. They buy a D2Max even though I tell them it's nothing like they're looking for. Of course, they hate it because it's nothing like the D2. They buy something that's not Prodigy. I don't know the percent of customers that moved on to something else, but it was a lot.
Whether it's easy or not, people didn't even care to figure it out. Arbitrary words are more memorable than letters and numbers. Especially when some of the numbers and letters don't line up across the board. "I throw an M4 but it's too fast, so I should go with the A4?" "I want a really flippy fairway like my M5 flies, so I should go with F5?" Those situations don't work.
I wonder where D2Signature, D2New, and D2Pro fit in to their flight chart. Is D2New just a D2V3 replacing the D2V2 which replaced the D2 and the D2V2 disappears? No thanks.
In the end, it was a pain having to describe a whole naming convention all the time. Words that have no meaning make more sense to people than Prodigy's attempt at lining things up.
As far as Prodigy, decent idea to keep it simple but it ended up backfiring when they realized they needed to make new molds/models to sell more discs. Now the simplification turned into a super complication.
What does a D2 or D2 max do versus a D2V2 or whatever. I have no idea. I also don't think any of the discs do anything better then other discs I already have. I tired a half dozen too, just mediocre products.
What's a RocX3?
We refer to people by names not numbers but we have plenty of them associated with our names that could be used.I'm fascinated by the concept that letters and numbers are somehow a deterrent to selling discs. Literally every disc I've ever bought has had letters and numbers associated with it.
We refer to people by names not numbers but we have plenty of them associated with our names that could be used.
Elon Musks sons name
X Æ A-12
Easy to remember and won't ever be confused for anything other than a person's name...amiright :/
Here's a print advertisement from 1992 for a new Discraft mold called the "Marauder".
Image weblink: https://i.ibb.co/dL9ZwdB/DC-Marauder-Ad.jpg
Check out how the ad maker wields the product name to increase saleability:
- "Robbing strokes"
- "Riding the Marauder down the middle of the fairway to steal the purse"
- "Join the gang and ride like the wind"
My job has taken me to hundreds of other workplaces over the years. I've seen in some factories how they use pictures of animals, etc., to help people more easily remember where skids of parts go, like a rabbit or whatever. I had a summer factory job in 1995 apparently before this was a thing and got in trouble for a parts mismatch because I didn't pay attention and missed two or three digits on a long code.
It's way easier for people to remember the "rabbit" parts v.s. the H2567000089733 parts even though rabbits have nothing to do with them.