View Poll Results: Are you being ripped of by British Hi-Fi retailers.

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Thread: Rip off British Hi-Fi Industry

  1. #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Frost View Post
    I'm not an effing retailer.

    Go buy your Hi-Fi from Singapore or the States then.
    Then why does your sig say Chris Frost - trade member (dealer)

    I don't buy hi-fi - I make it!

  2. #22
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    Because I have a custom installation business, not that you bothered to find out before making your wise-ass cracks

    I don't buy hi-fi - I make it!
    So what loudspeakers do you make then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Frost View Post
    Because I have a custom installation business, not that you bothered to find out before making your wise-ass cracks



    So what loudspeakers do you make then?
    In the 90's

    Cube 1
    Cube 2
    Cube 3
    Cubix
    Cubix Pro

    At some point Cube 1 / 2 and Cubix will go back into production.

  4. #24
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    Oh yes! and just to create a full house a turntable as well

    There is a pic of it here with an embarrasingly young version of me.

    This was my first attempt at direct UK selling, you will see parallels with what I think should happen now with the web and bake offs etc. It was fun but didn't draw in many sales. The hi-fi mafia had too mach control back then.

    http://www.nene-valley-audio.com/fra...challenge.html

  5. #25
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    Exactly how did the HiFi mafia stop you making sales?

    You were in peoples homes selling to them direct - no dealers, no distributors, no marketing men (unless you count your own company's efforts to reach an audience).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Frost View Post
    Exactly how did the HiFi mafia stop you making sales?

    You were in peoples homes selling to them direct - no dealers, no distributors, no marketing men (unless you count your own company's efforts to reach an audience).
    Because they largely had become a herd of sheep, brainwashing was rife due to magazines, reviewers and retailers (der mafia) at that time. People were scared to trust their ears or make their own decisions unless they had one of the selected few with golden ears wiggling their foot up and down at the appropriate moments. It still happens now but at last customers are laughing at them. Anyway I was very limited in what I could do myself both in time and distance and our dealers were too lazy to get involved. It was a bit of lateral thinking that didn't work, that is all.

    You keep trying don't you, not much success so far, you really should do your homework. So what happened to your laughter about speakers, huh. Acknowledge when you are wrong

  7. #27
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    No need to be quite so abrasive Richard.

  8. #28
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Toy View Post
    No need to be quite so abrasive Richard.
    He gets back what he is giving, read the thread.

    He has a bee buzzing around his head, he is looking for angles, ways to attack, little inconsistencies in words. If you play that game I think it is right for him to accept it when he sticks his foot in it.

  9. #29
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    Breath Richard, breath......
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  10. #30
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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
    He gets back what he is giving, read the thread.
    I was interested in what you had to say originally in the other thread, but you were so rude and dismissive when I first asked a question that it took me aback somewhat. Then you persisted in the same aggressive manner, so I thought "up yours".

    So far, nothing in your approach since has convinced me otherwise that your earlier comments were out of character.

    Welcome back Ashley, at least he was polite.

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