Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 22:35:22 10/12/05
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On October 13, 2005 at 00:32:34, Eelco de Groot wrote: >On October 12, 2005 at 22:50:19, Graham Banks wrote: > >>....it is against the charter to deflect business away from the company that >>sponsors the CCC forum. >>I have no choice but to delete the posts encouraging members to buy elsewhere. >>My apologies and please don't be offended, >> >>Regards, Graham. > >Dear Graham, > >I can't find nothing in the charter about "deflecting business from the company >that sponsors the CCC forum" > >There is a passage about "flagrant commercial exhortations" that might be >generally applicable, however deleting whole threads just because they might >cost ICD some minor business does not seem a very good reason. > >Regards, Eelco Well the posts involved stated that if you bought it from x place you got x discount if you mentioned x person. 1+1+1 = referal money. When you are deflecting business away from amazon, ICD, and pretty much every other retailer by offering discounts so that one company "gets the credit" is a pretty crappy way of doing business. So crappy in fact I forwarded the posts to Stefan at Chessbase. Peter
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