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Re: The competitive market place
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lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Tue, 14 May 2002 17:10:45 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Frank Filz writes:
On several occasions, a bickering contest has erupted over competitive
market posts. Perhaps we need to settle on some ground rules for
competitive marketing here. I'd like to open the discussion with the
following thoughts:

<snip some ideas that may be worthy of discussion>

I think if we work out some reasonable guidelines for conducting
business, we can eliminate some of the rancor which has occurred in the
past. Also, with reasonable guidelines, it will be clear "who started
it" if a bickering match does erupt. I think that if we can come up with
some reasonable guidelines, we can even have close to zero tolerance for
misbehavior.

Frank

I respectfully disagree. It sounds like you are trying to engineer the
community. I feel what you are proposing is too difficult to enforce with
consistancy and fairness. Suz has a point about not clearly defining the
line so someone will not try to push it. It can be easy for someone to
adhere to the letter of the law while violating what it intended.

The rules should be simple. Firstly, be polite. Secondly, take bickering
off-line or suffer the consequences. Thirdly, follow the golden rule.
Fourthly, do not reply unless it is constructive, else take it off-line.
Finally, don't tick Suz off.

If we *all* treated one another with a little more respect, perhaps this
whole issue of bickering would go away. If you do not get along with
someone, don't play with them.

$0.02

Jude



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  Re: The competitive market place
 
I disagree with Jude, and agree with Frank. (...) You can be completely respectful and still treat someone like dirt if you highjack their post to lowball their sales offer. If I follow your logic, as long as I do it all politely, it's fine. I think (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
  Re: The competitive market place
 
(...) I'm not trying to create rules which must be applied in only one way. I'm trying to suggest that we need to codify our expectations of how we conduct business on Lugnet better. All too often, things like counter offers errupt into a flame war. (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.market.theory)

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  The competitive market place
 
On several occasions, a bickering contest has erupted over competitive market posts. Perhaps we need to settle on some ground rules for competitive marketing here. I'd like to open the discussion with the following thoughts: In a market with any (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.market.theory)  

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