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Are their paid boosters on Audiogon?

I've seen it suggested that there are Audiogon members who receive some sort of undisclosed consideration from dealers or manufacturers to promote or denigrate certain products, vendors, etc.? That's an interesting, somewhat discouraging thing if its real. Just wondering what the group thinks of that- is it true, and if so how prevalent is the practice. 

With one notable exception (no longer on the forum) I've never really suspected that, but never gave it much thought.  There are dealers who just happen to have the perfect product whatever the need may be, but the selling is in the open and nothing is disguised. There are those who always recommend the brands they own, but I tend to put that down to human nature- we all tend to believe our choices are the best choices. We are lucky to have the expertise of incredibly talented designers who add a lot and are kind to freely share their vast knowledge with us-something I truly appreciate.

So, I've never really suspected there are paid shills here, but maybe I'm naive. I know there are YouTubers who receive benefits from sellers-some disclose that, but I think a lot don't, which is unfortunate. I hope that doesn't happen here.

Thoughts?

kerrybh
deep_333
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Are you all suggesting this guy got paid by Tekton? Hmm, he might have been a feral fanboy, but, getting paid? Probably not...

I get the feeling that the Tekton man runs a 2 to 3 man crew on a minimum wage shoe string budget..where he’s busy chopping wood for his cabinets himself when he’s not answering the phone....not sure he could afford to pay Miller. 

(On a similar  note, try diy’ing some tektons from scratch, buy all those drivers. You may easily end up with a higher price tag than what you could buy it for from the Tekton man)

Miller isn’t on my very tactically derived shiister list (even the cia would be proud) laugh.

Mr. Carbon has a YouTube channel called The Audio Files

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charliee
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As usual, the Toxic Ten can't resist adding their unwanted input to another thread. 

carlso63
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On thing that always puzzles me about this genre of topic(s) - playing Devil’s Advocate here:

While I am not sure (by any means) that there are paid shills / naysayers on this (or other Forums) - how come whenever this topic comes up... and many people express the opinion (paraphrasing) "...OF COURSE there are - it’s so obvious..." etc....

How come I have yet to ever see ANYONE get on a topic thread of this nature and ever admit to having been paid to shill or denigrate (even if it was in the past)..?

What? Are they having to sign NDAs or something? wink

And, since this has already stepped into the political arena... I would offer the same litmus test for the (alleged) "Paid political protesters"... even further on that one, the few who have claimed to have gotten paid to protest have ALWAYS turned out to be proponents of the opposing political ideology who end up were lying about their being paid in an effort to discredit the opposition...

Again, I really don’t have any proof one way or the other... and am just posing the question that how come no one else has any actual "proof" either..? (being it is SO obvious wink)

 

 

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mapman
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Requesting all paid boosters please identify yourself.  Now is your chance to come clean. wink

ghdprentice
7,754 posts
 

Attention. If someone would like to pay me to promote your products, I am available! Note, they need to be exceptional. I didn’t think this was a thing. But. I guess some folks are “influencers”, and make a ton of money. I guess it is all part of America becoming sheep, someone has to walk around with a bell… or maybe they always were. Never mind… I hate the idea.

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