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Dealer Ethics? - Anonymous disparagement

Is it wrong for an apparent DUNLAVY AUDIO dealer to ANONYMOUSLY call Pipedreams the" worst speaker I have ever heard over $500.00"?? I was startled by the extremely negative posts by cg70754 as to the Pipedreams loudspeakers . He called them in one of two posts - " Truly the worst speaker over $500.00 I have ever heard". Strong negative stuff . A check of the DUNLAVY AUDIO website www.dunlavyaudio.com revealed Acoustics Solutions as a Dealer with e-mail address c/o cgerlach@mindspring.com. An e-mail to cg70754 , showed cg70754 to be the listed DUNLAVY dealer,in Alpharetta,GA,- Chuck Gerlach of Acoustic Solutions . What do you think?
alaneichenbaum
retroguy
56 posts
 
It does sound like sour grapes. I don't think that John Dunlavy would appreciate one of his "dealers" making such a remark. Read some of his white papers available on the Dunlavy website. Bad, Bad form!
perfectimage
406 posts
 
It could be sour grapes but it could be an honest dealer. Maybe he really doesnt like them. If so I give him credit for being honest instead of pushing a product just because hes an authorized dealer.
brauserf31c
11 posts
 
I think we're comparing apples to oranges here. Dunlavy
products represent some of the 'best buys' in high-end audio
but really are not in the same league with the higher
priced PipeDreams. So this does sound something like sour
grapes to me.
judesonic
18 posts
 
You should let people know that you are a dealer for a competing speaker when making remarks such as - " worst speaker over $500.00" - thats Five Hundred Dollars!! Come on - at least give us a disclosure so that the opinion does not appear to be without some business interest. They should say they are a dealer when making strong negative comments about another product so they can be properly evaluated.
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dekay
2,959 posts
 
If the comments were made under the circumstances described I would consider them to be cheap shot cut lows. In most industries that I know of this is not acceptable behavior. Even attorneys stick together and do not resort to such tactics, right Cornfed?
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