The joke was funny. The problem with the joke was that too many crazy items posing as 'audiophile' are made AND sold here. How can AudiogoN allow sellers to sell "teleportation tweak": wherein the buyer gets a telephone call that makes an improvement in the buyers system. I don't care if it may be a 'funny'. It is an outright fraud. Unless the disclamer is made that it is "for amusement purposes only"!
The slope to bullcrap is beginning to get steeper. To not slide off the end is getting harder. This Heater ad was funny, it's effect, as part of a general "let's sell anything that some fool might buy" philosophy is bad for the entire audiophile community.
I am not against selling magic jars of rocks (one of my pet peeves) nor against the likes of "Tice Clocks". but the line needs to be drawn. And 'heaters' jokes, and teleportation tweak fraudster ads are not part of what makes AudiogoN great. Those sort of ads will IMO ruin AudiogoN, as folks begin to doubt what is real and what is not. YOU can see the posts with innocent questions all the time! Do you think the phoney and fraudulent products make a good impression on new people visiting this site?
Or, does it leave them wondering what the hell is going on?
The "heater" ad is just one more sign that too much f*cking around is going on here.
Your credibility gap is showing.
The slope to bullcrap is beginning to get steeper. To not slide off the end is getting harder. This Heater ad was funny, it's effect, as part of a general "let's sell anything that some fool might buy" philosophy is bad for the entire audiophile community.
I am not against selling magic jars of rocks (one of my pet peeves) nor against the likes of "Tice Clocks". but the line needs to be drawn. And 'heaters' jokes, and teleportation tweak fraudster ads are not part of what makes AudiogoN great. Those sort of ads will IMO ruin AudiogoN, as folks begin to doubt what is real and what is not. YOU can see the posts with innocent questions all the time! Do you think the phoney and fraudulent products make a good impression on new people visiting this site?
Or, does it leave them wondering what the hell is going on?
The "heater" ad is just one more sign that too much f*cking around is going on here.
Your credibility gap is showing.