At least someone finally addressed the question I posed earlier instead of
attacking the messenger.
Thanks Toby.
PEACE
Scott - the other one... not the "nice" one.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Pennington" <toby423@earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec's return policy
> I believe what Ken is saying, although in a different way, is that in
this
> case it could be considered as an attempt to supress Freedom of Speech, in
> that the action by TT citing a negative post on Eham as one reason not to
> sell to an individual who has placed an order for a product, could indeed
> discourage others from posting truthful, although negative posts, for fear
> that TT would in the future blacklist them from future purchases. IF this
> practice is allowed to continue , then definitely if you want to buy from
TT
> you had better not say anything negative about their
products.....therefore
> freespeech is surpressed.
>
> But in reality, it is probably an issue of business ethics that is at
issue
> and not so much freedom of speech. The question would be, "Is this an
> ethical way to do business"? This could be the important question and may
> come down to personal opinion if no laws are being broken. Only TT can
> conclude if this is the way they want to do business. Personally, I
think
> it is a very bad policy.
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