Crayon

Customer (The Moai) - 09/07/2005 05:03 AM:

Dear Crayola
Everybody eats crayons at one time or another. So why not make them taste nice? You know, make the orange ones orangey, the green ones lime flavour etc.?
I'd like some money if you take this idea up.
Yours,
The Moai
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Response (Debbie Lintvedt) - 02/17/2005 01:36 PM
Dear Moai,
Thank you for your e-mail and for your suggestion that we make CRAYOLA Crayons taste good. We appreciate your comments and have recorded them along with other similar suggestions from consumers. Binney & Smith is constantly striving through our own marketing and research andproduct technology departments to develop new products, and concepts and to improve existing ones. People outside our company, like yourself, regularly submit ideas, suggestions and concepts to us. Although we truly appreciate your thinking of us, we are unable to accept product or marketing ideas or suggestions from outside the company.Perhaps the following companies can assist you as an alternative: Toy Manufacturers Association of America (212) 675-1141http://www.toy-tia.org/
Invention/Submission Corporation (800) 288-4332 or (412) 288-1300http://www.inventhelp.com or http://www.isc-online.com/
We appreciate your interest in Binney & Smith and CRAYOLA products.
Make http://www.crayola.com your online destination for creative solutions, colorful ideas and fun developmental activities!

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