bill,
your post comes off as sophmoric and rude. you are trying to promote yourself and discredit justin's product in his release thread. do you have no morals?
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justin is friendly, responsive, and not overzealous to discredit another vender, especially in his own thread. it seems you could learn a little from his business ethics. there is a reason i never plan to buy from you, and your post backs my opinion.
cheers,
michael.
Michael
I find your post interesting. Rude, sophomoric and immoral. What ugly things to say. Immoral - Hmmm, I've been called a lot of things but never immoral. A child molester is immoral. These are pretty strong words.
Here are some thoughts and a few questions for you. This is a forum. The definition of a forum is "a place of or a meeting for public discussion" (Oxford Illustrated Dictionary). It is also a "public" forum. Last I checked, public meant that anyone could participate. The object of a discussion is to disseminate information. So lets objectively look at what happened. Justin posts an press release/advertisement on a "public forum". Bear in mind that there are plenty of places to put advertisements that your competitors cannot directly respond too but a "public forum" is not one of them. I chose to respond and disseminate some additional information to stimulate some discussion. This is what a forum is for, disseminate information for debate and discussion.
1) Explain to me why Justin is allowed to post information on this "public forum" and I'm not?
2) How is this rude, sophomoric and immoral?
3) Why did you choose name calling instead of starting a discussion?
Another thought, traditionally "public forums" are supposed to be non-commercial. Most of them still are and place restrictions on vender advertising. An example is Pirate. A vendor, even if they aren't even advertising is required to identify themselves as a vendor by the yellow star by their name so the reader knows you are a vendor. Obviously, they think this is very important. Vendors ignoring this rule are banned. Instead of being monitored, some forums are self policed. An example is Discoweb. Recently Justin was publicly asked to stop publicly advertising on Discoweb by the idiot Chapman no less. Did you know this? I try to respect this rule. Evidently this forum has no restrictions on vendor advertising. So again the question is: why is it OK for Justin to post an advertisement on a "public forum" and by responding I'm rude, sophomoric and immoral?
Another thought, can you show me where I said anything critical or negative about Justin personally, his business or his business practices? I have no problem with Justin personally. I have no problem competing with Justin. I even sort of know Justin, we have spoken numerous times in the past. He is even running my differentials in his personal car although I suspect they aren't painted green anymore. I respect Justin, he's actually doing it, unlike most of the Big Man on Forum types that dream about owning any business but don't have the balls to do what Justin is doing. Starting a business is 90% balls. Justin - congratulations on the business and having some balls! It must be frustrating for these forum tough guys to watch you do this. Maybe if they spent less time on forums calling people names or posting thousands of times, they could be starting a business - maybe even a 4WD one.
Final question, Michael. Can you show me where I said anything technically or factually inaccurate in my post?
One final thought, Michael - as you are shaking your arm and pointing your finger at me calling me rude, sophomoric and immoral, take a look at where your other three fingers are pointing.
Bill
GBR
P.S. I'll respond to your comments about my website later