We had spent almost 6 figures on factory experiments and needed to get some customer feedback from Europe at the behest of marketing.
Being mischievous and predicting the response, I actually asked marketing if they could purchase our engineering team a pelican case to protect the marketing samples ($300 cost).
They said it wasn’t in their budget to support, so we used bubble wrap.
I have the flip side story:
We had spent almost 6 figures on factory experiments and needed to get some customer feedback from Europe at the behest of marketing.
Being mischievous and predicting the response, I actually asked marketing if they could purchase our engineering team a pelican case to protect the marketing samples ($300 cost).
They said it wasn’t in their budget to support, so we used bubble wrap.