On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:32:05 GMT, "Chris Melanson"
wrote:

I find the replies to the original post a joke.

Only if you utterly ignore context. Which most of the people on this
NG were smart enough not to do.

Robert has a beef against Lee Valley, a company many of us have dealt
with and like quite a lot. About the only use he makes of this forum
is to snipe at them. It gets real old real quick and not unreasonably
produces resentment on the part of the people who choose to wade
through his bile.

All Robert was saying is that there is a sale on and asked a question if any
one knew if they were the same product.

No, that is clearly not what he was doing.

No where did I see him condemn LV
for there products.

Then you obviously didn't read very closely -- or you have a damned
odd definition of 'condemn LV'. Study up on 'implication'. If you
honestly believe that statement then you're the sort of prize sucker
that both US presidential candidates are so earnestly courting right
now.

All he did say that if they are the same product that
there is quite a mark up.

Implying that Lee Valley was gouging its customers.


Hell if I could sell a widget for $5 to some one and then sell
the same widget for $20 to some one else because they were willing to pay
that much.

If you thought you could buy that $20 widget for $5 you're the sort of
idiot who keeps Harbor Freight in business.

Good Lord! I'd expect anyone with the smarts to read this news group
to be well aware of the fact that the market is flooded with
woodworking tools that look alike but don't perform anything alike.
That's elementary and if you haven't figured it out by now then you're
wasting your money buying cheap crap that will make you work harder
and won't deliver the results you want.

I sure as hell would be pushing the $20 widget now would you not?
Further more if I bought the $20 widget and found out that I could have
bought the same one for $5. If I had of shopped around I sure would have
appreciated some one letting me know and not jumped down there through with
insults.




I have not posted to this group for quite a while for just this
reason being that of a gang mentality "if one person has something negative
to say you all jump in with something negative".

How about "if one person is fed up with a twit, a lot of people are
probably fed up with the same twit"?

I for one would like to thank Robert for the heads up and I will
definitely check out Princess Auto's clamps to see if they are a good value
for the money.

And you will undoubtedly be disappointed -- if you're truly comparing
quality for quality.

snip

Robert is merely an annoying little net troll. You OTOH are positively
irritating.

Double Plonk

--RC



Chris


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