Today there was supposed to be this large drone light show around Canada Place as the company Best Buy was promoting this a lot as a first of its kind event in Vancouver with about 300 drones. Even I was curious in checking it out. By the sounds of it, this drone show was supposed to start at the beginning of the event and there were quite a few people lined up to see it. However, apparently the organizers could get the drones going and people were standing outside in the cold wondering what was going on.
As it turned out, apparently the drone system had too much signal interference due to so many factors such as people around a populated area where there are so many electronic devices and add to the fact that apparently the drones were supposed to come out of an underground parking lot I heard. So after about an hour or so they decided to cancel the event.
While I am sure the businesses won’t be too happy, what got me thinking is how disappointed a lot of people were where as a result the comments came pouring in on how people felt Best Buy doesn’t understand tech as an example with this situation reminiscence of some people claiming say a sales associate just wants to sell items versus being knowledgeable.
So how do you as a company put this fire out now huh? What should have been great for PR purposes has now turned into a nightmare I would imagine. Lucky this event didn’t cost the audience any money at least.