Dealer Ethics? - Anonymous disparagement

Good one cornfed.

I know of an 'unannounced' dealer here on audiogon who continually rips the chief competition to his product lines. Grains of salt... Like all of us, I've been suspicious of several reviews that are just a little too enthusiastic. My favorite is this one dealer who keeps starting chat topics asking if other's have discovered his little known product lines: "Has anyone else heard the fantastic new .... Reference ....". America !

Hey Dekay/Cornfed, let's keep comments to the thread at hand. If you want to make jabs, email each other and really make it personal.

I don't see a problem. If he thinks the speaker is bad, then he should say so. If a competing product is good, he should also say that too. I would be distrustful of any dealer who didn't have fairly strong opinions.

Actually Retroguy, my comments do pertain to the thread as to compare what is acceptable behavior in an industry other than Hifi. I could also make comparisons to both the interior design and high end food and wine industries in which I have over 20 years of experience and in which this type of behavior is not considered acceptable. Commom business courtesy extend wells beyond this single example and this particular industry and I see these comaprisons as being valid. Also no jab, as you put it, was intended against Cornfed and I don't view his reply as one at myself. Thank you though for expressing your opinion instead of (or as well as) voting.

John 1- whats an unannounced dealer? If its someone who is making a living selling audio and then posts comments under another name, then that conduct is reprehensible and should be clearly unacceptable to AGon. I have noticed occassional solicitations to buy (private and dealer) slipping in here occassionally. while those are prohibited, at least they are above board. Bottom line on the nature of this post is that anyone dealing in audio equipment should make that known to all when they post, and that its rarely appropriate to "flame" your competition. Just point out what you can that others can't (better, cheaper, faster, whatever) and why.