You ask why some folks here might not wish your business well. Rightly or wrongly, some who didn't start out with any ill will toward you have gotten the idea that there might be some issues with your business practices. So I'll try to help out a little with three suggestions:tubamlb wrote:Only Other dealers that have given us a hard time and their ( friends )
We have been in Bussiness 8 years bringing affordible musical instruments to the Students and others, sorry that some repair people have taken ofence to this because they have lost money fixing old roted out instruments
If You want refences for our company we can send you many names of schools and people you can contact your self
Like, Dan Schultz, Adam Fry, Calvin Jenkins , John Olah, Ronald Bishup, David federly, etc.
We dont have people writing referances for us we just send the best instruments we can to our buyers at a fair price
Why would you or any one say to put us out of business
1. Refund Bloke's money. That issue is killing you. I strongly suspect that you have lost way more than that $400 in sales just because everyone who hangs out here much knows about it. You are minding your pennies while dollars that could come to you are going elsewhere. Keeping the four bills is not worth the ill will it's generating.
2. Some (me, for example) think you don't always tell the simple truth. Like that business with the six-valve F, for example. When Al and Mack started selling them for a fraction of your posted price, you alleged that it wasn't the same instrument, in spite of all the evidence that it was. So in cases like that, just tell it like it is with no hidden technicalities or definition games to underwrite statements that sound misleading to potential customers. In the example, either admit it's the same tuba, or tell us *exactly* what is meaningfully different about it.
3. Stop making bilious, argumentative posts on TubeNet. Come on here and present your wares as simply or creatively as you like (always bearing in mind suggestion #2). Say thank you to your wonderful customers from time to time. And other than that, let it go. (And run your text through a spell checker before you hit submit.)
Take it or leave it. But IMO, if you did those three things, after a while you would not get the kind of blowback you're getting now.