A different kind of spammers on this forum...

Indeed: there are certain areas of the net where I frequently find it hard to believe what I read...

Maybe there could be a 'trade' section - or forum - just for the sales people.

Or a big highlighted warning underneath every trade member's posting that alerts the unsuspecting to the fact that everything they read from this person is most likely to be a sales pitch of some kind.

I am fed-up to the teeth with ATC loudspeakers, ATC amps and £3000 DACs being touted as some kind of universal panacea from one particular dealer.

"I just happened to spend an evening with this new Chord DAC yesterday, and it is honestly the best thing I have ever heard in my life. Strangely enough, when I started work this morning, I found out I was selling them as an official dealer and we have a shop full of them! What an amazing co-incidence. Even weirder, they just happened to be the perfect match for a pair of ATC SCM19s. Thankyou. Regards from...."

Or...

"The perfect partners for a Denon micro system are the amazing ATC SCM40's."

I exaggerate (just a little) but you get my drift.

chebby:

"The perfect partners for a Denon micro system are the amazing ATC SCM40's."

Now Chebby, you're not insinuating partiality by some HiFi dealers towards the products they sell are you?

Heaven forbid! 

P.S Though I do note one dealer came clean and admitted there was no difference between cables, so they can't all be bad. 

Tarquinh:

P.S Though I do note one dealer came clean and admitted there was no difference between cables, so they can't all be bad. 

chebby:

Maybe there could be a 'trade' section - or forum - just for the sales people.

Or a big highlighted warning underneath every trade member's posting that alerts the unsuspecting to the fact that everything they read from this person is most likely to be a sales pitch of some kind.

I am fed-up to the teeth with ATC loudspeakers, ATC amps and £3000 DACs being touted as some kind of universal panacea from one particular dealer.

"I just happened to spend an evening with this new Chord DAC yesterday, and it is honestly the best thing I have ever heard in my life. Strangely enough, when I started work this morning, I found out I was selling them as an official dealer and we have a shop full of them! What an amazing co-incidence. Even weirder, they just happened to be the perfect match for a pair of ATC SCM19s. Thankyou. Regards from...."

Or...

"The perfect partners for a Denon micro system are the amazing ATC SCM40's."

I exaggerate (just a little) but you get my drift.

 

igglebert:

Tarquinh:

P.S Though I do note one dealer came clean and admitted there was no difference between cables, so they can't all be bad. 

...no, just a trifle deaf...Just kidding...please, no wars intended...

Actually it was power cables only, I think. 

I think it's perfectly fine for Rick, David, etc to post comments, so long as they are decent enough to place Ads in the Mag itself,  even if in the back pages/every other month (your mileage may vary).   We all need to have some give and take. 

Ofcourse we all want total separation from editorial content and advertisers, but most of us on this forum know who is who.

Neon K (not my real name!)

Neon K:

I think it's perfectly fine for Rick, David, etc to post comments, so long as they are decent enough to place Ads in the Mag itself,  even if in the back pages/every other month (your mileage may vary).   We all need to have some give and take. 

Well, they are forum members like any of us. So why should separate rules apply to them (about placing ads in the mag), especially when they're prohibited from soliciting business of any kind here?

And there I was thinking that anodyne was something from Russ Andrews' box of tricks.

Although some people find that offensive.

Given Russ' prices I'd suggest anodyne is the last feeling involved.

JoelSim:

And there I was thinking that anodyne was something from Russ Andrews' box of tricks.

Although some people find that offensive.

No, just predictable.

[Edited by mods - thanks for the tip off; handled]

bigboss:

Well, they are forum members like any of us. So why should separate rules apply to them (about placing ads in the mag), especially when they're prohibited from soliciting business of any kind here?

Good point. If I wasn't here representing FH, I'd be on here myself and basically saying the same things.

I have my suspicions about 'Out of This World Audio'. I do not think they are even a real company........