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Dealers hijacking the discussions

I’m a very long term member and look at the forums most every day. I’m personally extremely irritated by dealers injecting sales pitches into the discussions which has never really been a problem before. Dealers are biased as it’s the nature of business and this is fine but I don’t go to audiogon to see shameless promotion. There’s one guy in particular that needs to go away. The fact that you’ll all know who it is says volumes about the amount of posting this guy/dealer does on audiogon. Does anyone feel as I do. Just curious.
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mapman
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If having a website listing products and prices in addition to posting ads on Audiogon for same products makes one a dealer,  a dealer who chimed in above and said he wasn't a dealer actually is.

So much for dealer transparency on Audiogon.
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mapman
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Audiogon’s policy as long as I have been around (2008 or so) has always been to let dealers participate freely in the forums and not require any disclosure. So it is what it has always been. The shilling factor has seemed to have gone up over time but who knows for sure. Its just one more murky area among many that high end audio enthusiasts choose to deal with or not.
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