Who has dumped the power conditioner?

Let me get this straight - (I can laugh during it if it makes you feel better):

Prosound who is rep for Silver Circle Audio makes sales pitch (I don't have any other name for that):

"This power conditioner simply out-performs every other conditioner on the market, period."

and when he is asked about his financial interest Dstanard from Silver Circle Audio jumps in to defend him.

It doesn't look bad up to this point but lets look at another Prosundman thread: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1248441278&openusid&zzProsoundman&4&5#Prosoundman

Same story - Prosoundman makes sales pitch for Silver Circle Audio cables and when asked by Rnadelman for affiliation with the company Dstanard jumps in with his sales pitch and offers demo to Rnadelman who agrees.

Summary: We have here couple of guys who have financial interest advertising product on the forum on offering demo with purpose to sell. This is very unethical and even more disturbing that they don't see anything wrong with it.
Are you guys so cheap that you cannot pay for advertising like everybody else?

I invite everybody to read the link I posted and be the judge yourself. Perhaps moderator should read as well.

Agree with Kijanki.

Looks to me like a 3-way guerrilla marketing campaign. Sure they know its not considered appropriate, but they are only interested in themselves. They will have dozens of rationalizations, but bottom line is that this is nothing different from Phil (I liked the shaver so much I bought the company) Ronco's approach to marketing....er I mean shameless self-promotion.

I don't question anyone's good intentions here, and I certainly don't question the quality of the product. But it seems to me that as a matter of both common sense and basic good ethics, when a product is praised and the person praising it has a financial interest in its sales, that interest should be disclosed.

And upon careful reading of this thread and the one linked to by Kijanki, I see no denial thus far that such an interest exists.

Regards,
-- Al

Well that's it then, so let's move on and ignore their comments. I don't think there was any malice intended, just excitement and passion over a product they own and represent...which should be at least mentioned as a sidebar.