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Post by auchinbadie on Oct 17, 2004 7:20:20 GMT -5
No, Orc. I am on his emailing list and get advance warning of stuff he's seen, doing or about to post. He has three lists on different servers hes told us- Mere Mortals, Trusties & God! I am in the middle list but would love to know who is in "God'! If you'd played your cards right you know Orc, Paul might have invented a 4th one just for you!! Oh, I see. (How sad is that?) |
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Post by Adz on Oct 17, 2004 8:50:21 GMT -5
Is it as sad as hijacking every topic that either one of two people posts on in order to snipe at them?
I for one think not - how about the rest of you?
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Post by auchinbadie on Oct 17, 2004 10:35:04 GMT -5
I agree with you Adz. So mind your own buisness.
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Biggles
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Post by Biggles on Oct 17, 2004 10:56:09 GMT -5
:)This it what makes this forum so enthralling.
I have a page down and delete button.......I use them ;D
TL
David
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Post by Adz on Oct 17, 2004 12:09:07 GMT -5
I agree with you Adz. So mind your own buisness. LOL - Its a public forum, where I'm a member... that makes it my business just as much as yours. You do yap some don't you? |
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Post by auchinbadie on Oct 17, 2004 12:25:41 GMT -5
So don't hijack "my" topic. OK
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Post by auchinbadie on Oct 17, 2004 12:30:30 GMT -5
Shall we get back to the original subject of this thread?
All my reels have originated from BFR is various guises (never been one to spend as much on the reel as the rod). It will certainly make me think twice now
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Post by otaku on Oct 17, 2004 13:50:15 GMT -5
It will certainly make me think twice now High time, Orc. Buffy sends her love. |
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Post by Adz on Oct 17, 2004 18:10:21 GMT -5
So don't hijack "my" topic. OK Your topic? Since when? Since you hijacked it off of Biggles in order to snipe at Otaku, who, for all his shotcomings has contributed more than you ever could? Don't make me laugh lapdog... |
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Post by auchinbadie on Oct 18, 2004 7:18:53 GMT -5
And who is sniping now?
Leave it out. Pup.
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Post by The Famous Grouse on Oct 18, 2004 11:11:21 GMT -5
We reap what we sow. I can't count the number of threads and posts I've seen that extol the virtues of cheap reels. Anything over $XXX and it's just gold-plated male jewelry, the reel is only for holding the line, etc, etc.
True enough, occasionally someone mentioned that it's good to support a brand because it's "made here", but mostly it's all about the price. Or the other general direction has been about getting the best quality for the cheapest price.
Really, is it surprising? It looks to me like Asian manufacturers are giving us exactly what many are always asking for: Reasonable quality with a cheap price.
There are some great examples emerging, of UK fieldsport kit makers turning vice into virtue by (finally!) taking the time to learn the value of brand image getting in tune with the customer perceptions of their products. A recent poster noted that Americans seemed willing to pay insane prices for Hardy salmon reels on eBay. The London, Scottish, and Birmingham gun and rifle makers, after nearly being consigned to the dustbin in the ‘80s, have never had it so good.
The way it is isn’t the way it has to be, but how many of us think about it before it’s too late? Personally, I’m trying, but it’s a hard habit to break. I quit shopping at Wal-Mart period, but you know how it is. When you see a deal it’s pretty easy to forget to look at where it’s made.
Grouse
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Post by Donald on Oct 18, 2004 11:47:41 GMT -5
Really, is it surprising? It looks to me like Asian manufacturers are giving us exactly what many are always asking for: Reasonable quality with a cheap price. Indeed Grouse, globalisation - it's the way of the world. We want it and we want it cheap - so pay them there foreign peasants peanuts and we'll all be happy punters. |
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Post by JonMartin on Oct 18, 2004 11:56:07 GMT -5
The big problem being that as the jobs go to the Far East the consumers here no longer have the jobs that provide the cash to buy the cheap goods coming in from the Far East............
For a more comprehensible explanation of this version of the multiplier effect - ask Cothi.
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Post by Donald on Oct 18, 2004 14:23:41 GMT -5
So God, in his wisdom, invented the credit card.  |
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Post by lakefisher on Oct 18, 2004 15:09:08 GMT -5
I have today Emailed Orvis to inform them of just how the sacking of the BFR workers is likely to decrease their sales in the UK.
As previously posted, they are now on my personel boycott list - and that goes for all Orvis products !
As one of their Email addresses is suggestions@orvis.com I leave to your vivid imaginations what was actually written. (plus we have censoring software on the forum)
Anyone care to do likewise ?
Cheers Tony
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