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Let me publically apologise for my very OTT message back to Tony. I
over-reacted to his "good god..." reply to my original message, which
wasn't
intended as a dig at him.
Let me further go on record with a couple of things:
1: I don't believe that Tony is excessively profiteering on the
AudioTron bulk buy.
2: It was ME who originally spoke to Mark about making profits on
the
bulk buys... but read on.
This was _prior_ to Tony's recent post about European and "small
profit".
The reason I was picked up the phone to speak to Mark about guidelines
for
Bulk Buys was because of the relationship that UKHA is building with
SonicBlue,
who have expressed to me very clearly that they want to understand how our
bulk
buy process actually works and is governed before they enter into the next
one
(on ReplayTV.)
We discussed both past and current bulk buys, including (in
chronological
order) Graham', Gareth's, John's, mine, and Tony's.
In our discussions, I said that I was felt we needed a clear distinction
between those who wanted to run Bulk Buys as a service to the group as a
whole,
and would try to do this at cost, and those who were
commercially-motivated, in
particular the guy that Mark banned last week for just coming on and
spamming
the list with adverts.
The thrust of my conversation with Mark is that we needed to make clear,
in
advance, the guidelines for doing this. As you know, I drafted the original
set
of guidelines that, say, Gareth used. I think that it's far better to
understand
what we're all letting ourselves in for up front.
We _are_ becoming a powerful force in the leading-edge Home
Automation
market, and wholesalers are beginning to ask questions that we need to be
able
to answer...
Mark
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