ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: the latest flap

Re: the latest flap

Duncan Fletcher (dfletche@gte.net)
Thu, 13 Mar 1997 19:16:19 -0800

I am not sure this is an answer, but let me try anyway. If someone posts
what appears to be a legitimate complaint about a vendor, I will file it in
my head, but it will have no effect on my purchase decision. If there are
multiple (how many depends on my perception of the probably number of
customers in the group - recognizing that complainers are more likely to
post) posts about a vendor problem, it will make me cautious.

Vendors have numerous places to post information and obtain information
about their customers - credit bureaus, check verification companies, etc.
This type of forum is the only one available to consumers.

I probably wouldn't send any thing of great value to Tommy or Charlotte or
any one else without a good deal of investigation, but it is unlikely that
vendors are monitoring these posts for the sort of information posted. I
can, therefore, only conclude that the purpose of the post was revenge.

I agree that what is sauce of for the goose (credit bureaus, etc.) is sauce
of the goose (the internet) .... or is the other way around.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net

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> From: C.M.Newell <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: the latest flap
> Date: Thursday, March 13, 1997 6:03 PM
>
> >If there is an ongoing problem with a DEALER on this list, it behooves
> >us
> > to warn the others. It is not however the business of any list to cast
> > aspersions on any individual over for a discrepency in this way.
> >
>
> Not taking sides here, but the above puzzles me--why should it be
> acceptable to "warn" people about Teddy or other "dealers", but not for
> them to "warn" about alleged "deadbeats"?
>
> Personally, I say it ain't appropriate *either* way, but what's
> sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
>
> Fire at will....
> --Charlotte

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