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- Tuesday June 15, 2010
Jeltz said:You may mock Tony but inter forum "Wars" can get scarily silly.
I have been involved in a forum and spin off which led to a full scale war which spilled into the real world. Along with some truly outrageous accusations, trolling and vicious posts on both forums one guy tracking down info about one woman, finding out her kids names, ages and school (all found from t'internet) and made menacing posts about how "safe" or otherwise they might be. Said woman then managed to find out where he worked and phoned his HR department and had him on a formal warning as some posts traced back to being made in work time on a work computer.
Depends, in that instance the posts were intended to scare and the woman was scared.antdad said:Indeed, idle threats ending up with a formal warning from the work place? That is silly but it's hardly scary is it.
Yellow Jim said:He's just come across a bit sanctimonious in the past. The fact that a lot of the rules of his new forum prohibit actions that he undertook himself on forums he's been banned from is a bit rich. I won't be joining as I found him irritating as a member here, irritating as a blogger and no doubt with the "power" to ban people he doesn't get on with he'll be even more irritating. I'm sure he'll get some decent guys joining, but with him in charge it's not for me.
Blades said:Bruce on Shaving is the admin... :ugeek:
I think hes a pretty knowledgeable fellow
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Dildo said:Firstly Simpson's don't manufacture shaving brushes, they manage a luxury brand, they could double their turnover and quadruple their productivity if they applied more strategic brand management skills.
Secondly we enthusiasts on the forums are only a very small part of the market. Visit a 3Ts shop in London and very few of their customers know about Fido or Frank. And I have watched these customers buy mountains of swag. The overall men's grooming market is worth billions, we are a mere bagatelle.
Thirdly Fido is really small beer. A home business serving mainly enthusiasts. He could grow it to be much larger, but I don't see it.
Fourthly the brush manufacturers have been minting it with exceedingly high profits. Badger shaving brushes were a luxury item that only the elite could afford. The companies have kept the prices high whilst their costs, by sourcing in China, have collapsed. Fido and Frank demonstrate the reality of the situation when less greed is applied.
Fifth a Frank finest can be made and sold at a profit for $9.99. This tells you the real costs and values of badger brushes. I would like to know of a brush manufacturer that isn't sourcing in China.
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