Ironbear opened this issue on Jan 17, 2003 ยท 256 posts
ClintH posted Sat, 18 January 2003 at 11:50 AM
We arent controlling where anyone works. We remove access to the private merchant forum for merchants that we feel have a vested interest in competing Brokering sites. We discuss sensitive information from time to time in the private forum and do not wish to provide this information to competing sites. Its not hard to understand this from a business standpoint. In this particular situation the merchant helps run a store for a brokered site...that is considered competition. We dont ask them to remove their store, or ban their profile. All we do is remove access to one specific thing. Nothing more nothing less. If the merchant feels that this forum is so important that they feel a need to remove all of their products then that is fine. I would rather they didnt but they are free to do this if they feel the need. All other merchant resources are available to them...just not the forum where we discuss upcoming business decisions that we feel should be kept confidential to this site until released to the community. Changes that have been implemented are communicated to all merchants via the monthly newsletter that comes out the second Tuesday of each month. Clint
Clint Hawkins
MarketPlace Manager/Copyright Agent
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