A note to manufacturers and distributors.

IF you make a product that breaks, doesn't do what it says, or your service is crap:

Then in our FREE SPEAKING COUNTRY expect people on a forum to tell it as it is.

Don't try to stifle the free speach with threats of litigation, take it like a grown up and deal with it.

IMHO any threats of such should be posted by the mods for the world to see.

This is the UK, not USA. smiley33

Damn straight!!!!!! smiley20 smiley32

Agreed, but the assholes that cause problems are not reading this, and if they were they would still think they were correct.

Hear hear....well said Nick smiley32

also it is valuable consumer user information that could help better a product. our voices help manufacturers better their products so please do not try silence us! smiley2

Is there anything in particular that brought this on?

Tony.A.S.S. wrote: Is there anything in particular that brought this on?

I assume the legal actions taken against speakerplans.

Read Bruces post in General on SP.

I really feel for him, must have been a nightmare.

The quote that made me post here.

"Already I have to waste many days each month dealing with companies wanting to sue due to people bitching on here without a thought to what they are saying"

Beats me why when/if a company messes up they just cant say sorry, or if they believe they havn't, then open the discussion. But no, as the quote says, litigation.

So there you have it, the reason for the post.

nickyburnell wrote:
Beats me why when/if a company messes up they just cant say sorry, or if they believe they havn't, then open the discussion. But no, as the quote says, litigation.

So there you have it, the reason for the post.

From my experience on SP & FSP "some" manufacturers are more concerned about how comments effect their perceived image, sales & profits.

They don't believe an individual would make negative comments about their products, due to negative experience, to motivate them
to do better.

Seems far easier for them to accept that the individual is on an "agenda" to attack their product, probably for financial means, as an
agent for other companies.

Yes, this has happened in the past on SP.

However, if someone sees a product fail publicly in a forum shootout/test, and comments about it on the forum,
doesn't mean they are "necessarily" on an agenda, may just mean they weren't impressed, and have some comments, which may prove positive
to a product's future.

Looking for the hidden agendas will sometimes be difficult, because it's hard to get behind the reasons for saying or doing things. Perhaps as FSP gets more popular, there will be more issues. Some people revel in "issues" because they like to fight. Hopefully, we can keep these situations out of the equation for as long as possible.