a) No not trolls - god knows i've seen plenty of them in the Audiophile forum - ANNOYED PEOPLE - not being BEING ANNOYING
b) The "market forces shall not be disobeyed" argument which is a version of the "if you dont like the way we do things dont buy our stuff" retort - not the point. It used to be possible to (hey global capitalism hoorah!) buy your squeezebox driect from the company and take your lumps with sales tax and shipping on top. Sometimes this was a good idea sometimes not but it seemed a fair enbough retort to anybody complaining about local prices. BY STOPPING THIS we (us UK types) HAVE to pay (yeah i know a few complex exceptions involving shipping and maybe the occasional US distributor that will ship abroad) the local distributor price which is often marked up way beyond US plus tax plus shipping. Why? Cos THEY THINK THATS WHAT THE MARKET WILL STAND. (provided of course they cant shop around and see what other markets are paying.) c) Nothing new in any of this of course, its pretty common behaviour but as i said above some of us imagined (dumb huh) that Slimdevices had a different view - not because they were not a properly self interested commercial company but because their business depended upon/encouraged "community goodwill" reinforcing the product and its development as part of its business model. As you know - it has worked well. d) Slimdevices is favoured. It has a customer base which is very loyal and INVOLVED - this is not just because the product is good its because of a bunch of slightly intangible stuff which is evidenced at least partly by the very length of this thread! People Care and "hey thats capitalism folks" is not an adequate response. -- gandt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gandt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=586 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43128 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
