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If lover spurned = potential buyer turned off, then...

...so be it. I won't be responsible for your smarmy analogies, nor endorse them.

I once called you to ask about the ASL items you had on your sales page. I was ready to pull the trigger on an integrated there. Almost immediately, you launched into a diatribe about how poor their QC was and that I would be much better off buying a Primaluna (for which, it's interesting, you have no USA-based dealer competition). You ended by calling the ASL brand 'shit'.

My head was spinning as I hung up. Why would you bother to list/advertise for sale items that you yourself would call 'shit'? (Whether they are or not is immaterial; don't bother going there. The point I am making here is that you advertise them and then criticize them. I suppose you call this 'classy', in your own peculiar brand of street lingo).

It was a short check from there to find out that you had once been a dealer for ASL but the relationship ended badly. These were your leftover inventory that ASL would not take back, and rather than donate the 'shit' to the junkyard, you decided to let your customers have them. Or... is this bait and switch on your part? I notice, more than a year later, all the same ASL items (or nearly all of them) are still on your sales page. What's happening there? Do you like people to call about the brand just so you can tell them it's 'shit' and steer them to a product that only you sell in this market?

You still don't get the point, and I agree with clio09 that you never will. No matter how many audiophiles, manufacturers and fellow dealers post here in general disapprobation of your techniques, you will remain, in the worst sense of the word, an original. Just not with my dollars (I know, I know, you are/were successful, you don't need them, you don't need to work, blah blah. So when's the retirement party?)


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