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In Reply to: Reminds me of a business "rule" where I used to work... posted by Enophile on February 17, 2007 at 12:30:53:
<< I don't care about your rules, you don't need them, and I don't see why you keep mentioning them >>JA is making a point. There is another US high-end magazine that apparently has no rules, as one of the reviewers there did a very bad thing. He took an extremely expensive set of cables (tens of thousands of dollars worth) that were on loan and sold them on Audiogon.
I can only think of two explanations:
a) The reviewer is a crook who stole the cables, thinking that the manufacturer wouldn't remember who he had loaned them to.
b) The reviewer mistakenly thought that the manufacturer gave him the cables instead of loaning them -- in other words, a bribe.
In either event, it's not such a good situation. That other magazine either has a crook or a person that expects bribes on its staff. The odd thing is that nothing has happened at the other magazine so far. It's like this is a normal situation and nothing to be concerned with.
Now to me, that is not the case. It's not OK to be working with a magazine that employs crooks or people that expect bribes. So we have pulled all of our advertising from that other magazine. I expect (and hope) that sooner or later they will rectify the situation so that I will feel comfortable doing business with them again.
In the meantime, JA is making a point that there are other ways of doing business besides hiring crooks and/or people that expect bribes. I think that is a fair point to make, personally.
Follow Ups:
His point was related to reviewing products which do not have the # of U.S. dealer's JA requires, not rules regarding equipment "loans", selling review gear etc.
I guess I can't help you out much here, as it seems you just want to be argumentative. JA's "As We See It" this month was concerning *all* of the rules that the magazine has. Enophile's post referred to Stereophile's "rules" and he said that didn't care about them and didn't need them.I was pointing out an example of what happens when a magazine doesn't have rules (or if they do, they certainly aren't enforced). I personally don't care for the resulting type of magazine, where the reviews are written by crooks and/or people that expect huge bribes. Maybe you do, I don't know.
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