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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
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
5,662 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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swampwalker
5,138 posts
 
Perfectimage- I think you misunderstood, Dunleavy dealer apparently trashing competitors product, not one of his own lines. Very low class, IMO, and most importantly, just another reason to take any internet opinions with a grain of salt until you can verify the source.
perfectimage
406 posts
 
It seems to me that you are all baseing his intentions on what YOU think of the product. It might not have been the most profesional thing to do but he is intitled to his opinion. If he did it for other reasons then it was very wrong but I have seen the best of the best products critisized. If he actually doesnt like the product then he did nothing wrong.
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