quote:Originally posted by LF - TP 2511:
... Therefore, I suggest we all refrain from posting any positive vendor reviews. That will at least keep the tables balanced ...
I don't understand why denying a positive review to a vendor that deserves it is balanced.
And I don't understand the mentality of people who want to cheer-on people who are slinging mud at one another.
You can suggest whatever you want, but you do not speak for the management of these Forums. I believe more people should share their positive experiences with vendors. Positive feedback about vendors is very useful and informative. Its more informative than negative feedback. A vendor with lots of positive feedback is likely somebody you want to do business with.
Negative feedback on the other hand must always be taken with a grain of salt. People are likely to over state the facts when they are angry. And the source of problems between two people (a vendor and his customer) is often mis-communication. It wouldn't be wise to evaluate somebody's business ethics based on mis-communication.
I have worked on other people's cars for money. I can tell you when it comes to working on another person's vehicle, or taking another person's money, there are some people you just can't make happy ... they are going to be pissed off no matter what you do. The unfortunate reality is, if you treat people like that nice, they will take advantage of you endlessly. When you finally draw the line, they get angry.
Negative feedback can be vendetta driven, somebody purposefully trying to make someone else look bad, even if the facts reported are lies. Mud-slinging about vendors may be the result of a friend of one vendor trying to make the competition look bad. I've seen that happen on the Cleveland forum, and have had it verified that it was intentional. One manufacturer would telephone his friends and ask them to log onto the forum and make the other manufacturer look bad. It happens.
Finally, when a person starts slinging mud at another, no matter how "right" he may be, he always gets a little of that mud on himself. A mud slinger will end up looking bad in the eyes of others, except in the eyes of those who want to cheer such behavior on. With concern for my friends here in the DeTomaso Internet Community, my advice to all is slinging mud is not something any of you want to be involved in. And its not something we want on our forums.
-G