Is this in the right forum?

[adslnation]

Shouldn't this Offer be in the offer forum ?
Cashback and Offers for our Members

[NewsreadeR]

Yes and no, more people read this forum, and therefore I feel it would be more beneficial to our members, and reach a wider audience.

You could always do a similar offer

[adslnation]

We don't do offers, personally I think offers just mean the price something should have been sold at in the first place. For example Carpet Right they always have 50 or 60% off their carpets. So why not just sell the carpet at that price in the first place ?

If a company can afford to offer an item at a certain price then they should simply sell it at that price in the first place. Note this is not a stab at run-IT-direct it is a general comment about how discounts are just marketing gimmicks. The other one is price match policies, I never buy from a shop that offers to match another shops price, I buy it from the shop that advertises the lower price in the first place as I feel they deserve the business for selling it at a more sensible price in the first place.

So with those personal opinions in mind it is no surprise that our company is run on the basis of offering products at a reasonable price in the first place without any advertising gimmicks.

For comparison lets take the cost of buying an NTE-5 socket for example

run-IT-direct - £9.39-10%=£8.45 + £4.50 delivery = £12.95
ADSL Nation - £5.99 (Full Price) + £1.50 delivery = £7.49

Both products offered are identical made by Pressac.

[NewsreadeR]

If you have a problem with the way we run this site, or any decisions we make, I really don't think you should be doing it in the open. Both of you are companies, both of which sell products, and both of which should not be getting free advertising on our forums.

In the past we have always turned a blind eye to this as *WE* thought we would be helping our members. If you wish us to apply the rules and enforce our own rules of:

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*WE* are happy to do so.

[RUNITDIRECT]

Which is why we contacted the forum to see if we could come to an arrangement, we get advertising in return for a 10% discount to forum members so the forum benefits. Nothing to do with marketing gimmicks etc, as for " I always buy from the cheapest shop" well that is your decision, we have NEVER claimed to be the cheapest & nevre will be but what we will do is ship out goods same day, give free advice etc, were here to stay not to make a quick buck.You can get NTE5's MUCH cheaper off eBay for example that are BT Openreach branded-BT engineers don't pay for their own stock, you and I both know only BT can get Openreach branded NTE5's. The number of customers we have suggests cheapest is not always best, that is the customers decision.

[NewsreadeR]

Originally Posted by RUNITDIRECT

Which is why we contacted the forum to see if we could come to an arrangement, we get advertising in return for a 10% discount to forum members so the forum benefits.

Which is something we have now authorised Dave, and have no issues with whatsoever.

[adslnation]

Originally Posted by NewsreadeR

If you have a problem with the way we run this site, or any decisions we make, I really don't think you should be doing it in the open. Both of you are companies, both of which sell products, and both of which should not be getting free advertising on our forums.

In the past we have always turned a blind eye to this as *WE* thought we would be helping our members. If you wish us to apply the rules and enforce our own rules of:

*WE* are happy to do so.

Woah, hold on a second how did you get from my general comment about how discounts are marketing gimmicks to it being a problem with how you run the site. You suggested in the forum that perhaps we should offer a similar deal and I offered an explanation as to why we have never made such an offer in response to your requests and pointed out that we don't do any offers for any sites not just singling out skyser forum.

We have never made any commercial comments on here, in fact I only joined here because sky user admins contacted us telling us that our products were a popular source of discussion and I joined up to answer the occasional technical question. I have never done anything other then answer the occasional technical question about wiring etc. So I don't know why I seem to have triggered that response.

[RUNITDIRECT]

Originally Posted by NewsreadeR

Which is something we have now authorised Dave, and have no issues with whatsoever.

As i said, hopefully of mutual benefit. ps, i used to work for Sky many moons ago!! Wonder if i still have my training manuals