Virus opened this issue on Sep 21, 2001 ยท 221 posts
Thorne posted Fri, 21 September 2001 at 6:00 PM
hehe! Hey guess what?! I post in the "Merchant's Only" forum and I talk about FREE STUFF too- I'm all about free stuff, the problem being that there is a growing number of items with price tags on them that should rightfully BELONG in the free stuff and not in the store. Mehndi and I and some others have been formulating this idea for the Free Market Guild for some time now. The ideas is simple, and would work something like a "better business bureau" for modelers. It's certainly NOT about money, or who we like or don't like, or what our own PERSONAL tastes in models happens to be. It's totally about QUALITY CONTROL and the lack thereof among some brokering sites. I have before and will continue to post ABSOLUTELY FREE a higher quality version of some poopie that I find cluttering up store pages, wherever that might be. I am not talking about personal taste or preference, or snobbism or elitism either for that matter. I am refering to a set list of tangible and absolute standards of quality that any model should rightfully meet before being considered a sale item, irregardless of whether or not I personally find the item distasteful, or I think it is the best thing since sliced bread. Either way, if it don't meet the standards, then it don't cut the mustard. I am very sick of the "let the buyer beware" attitude. I say, as I said in the Merchant's Forum, "LET THE POOPIE PEDDLERS BEWARE"- 'cos the Guild is gonna getcha...