Ahem,
I also wonder if overt commercial participation might not lead to more of
the "I wasted my money," "No, you didn't" stuff. I value input from a
wider variety of people than I can normally contact. A case in point was
when I had to find a new chrome grille for my bugeye. It would have
helped a great deal to have people tell me what they had bought and how
they liked it. As it was, I went through quite a flurry of buying and
returning, at $100 to $200 a pop. There must be a dozen little shops in
Taiwan making different wretched approximations of bugeye grilles. I know
somebody used to make an excellent one, but I cannot find where to get it.
Anyway, I can just see the commotion. People post that they got a bad
frammis flodger from supplier X, and he argues his frammis flodgers are
made by the same elves that made factory frammis flodgers, and off we go.
If someone asks about new headlight rims for his bugeye, I want to be able
to tell him or her that the bugeye headlight rims I bought last year from
Moss were beautiful reproductions, with one minor flaw--they were 1/8 inch
too small to go over the lamps. Considering the owner of Moss has a
bugeye, you'd think somebody would try the suckers before shipping them
around the world. Anyway, I want to be able to offer this info without
getting into a war with Moss, a generally very good and helpful outfit.
And now, making my way painfully to the point: could there be a parallel
list, to which one could subscribe or not, for commercial interaction?
There, suppliers could announce their wares, defend their products, offer
advice, etc. One could receive and/or read it if he wished, keeping this
list essentially for us amateurs. The disgruntled could cross post to
both groups, if they wished, but we would not have to read the resulting
crossfire unless we wished to.
Does it sound doable?
Ray Gibbons
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