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RE: A Public Apology



Title: Re: [ukha_d] UK spec Audiotron Bulk Buy
Damn these crossing over posts!!
 
Apology accepted - it was a _little_ excessive I thought, but forgotten already!
 
I don't see that adding a bit for time & effort is too much - even if, yes, an actual profit is made, on a product that people on the group want and will get for less than they would otherwise.  It might encourage others to do bulk buys if they can at least cover the cost of doing so (or fool themselves into thinking that anyway).
 
Maybe because it's so soon after the memory buy you are thinking I am going to be doing this on a commercial basis, but really I'm still relatively new tot his group so I'm just trying to catch up on the gadget count - and whilst I'm at it, if I can get a better deal if I do a bulk buy then why not?
 
This I feel is way different to the guy who just spammed about loads of PC's at bargain prices or whatever it was.
 
Some guidelines would be useful, but enforcing them would be very difficult and constricting perhaps - eg, if I had to collect all the money (thus getting exact numbers), work out the exact shipping costs, VAT etc on the memory deal then I probably wouldn't have bothered because it would have taken more effort than it was worth - so I bought first, told everyone the price, then collected the money (or even handed over the goods without the money because 'I left the chequebook at home - you know who you are!).
This is in contrast to the other buys I am aware of where money was required up front.  Fair enough - different people are willing to take different risks, so guidelines should not be binding on people.
 
Just IMO of course.
 
 
Tony
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 May 2002 11:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] A Public Apology

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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