What would be my incentive for leaving a review of a restaurant (good or bad)? What would be my incentive for leaving feedback for a buyer or seller on INGO? What would be my incentive for leaving feedback for a seller on ebay? I'll tell you. I have no incentive for any of these things.
I have clearly explained why and made no personal attacks. You completely misstate my point explained clearly in my posts. Not trying to silence anyone, never made such a statement. It is important because we don’t have so many options for folks to go shoot that we can let petty grievances be lodged without comment. Maybe you do.
Perhaps that's because more INGO members have had negative experiences with SPB than they have with Bobcat. That's kind of the point of reviews. You look at the aggregate and trends and form an opinion from there if you have no personal experience with the vendor.
I'm just saying that sometimes people get butthurt about something trivial and take to the internet.. If a company is hosing their customers they will eventually remove themselves from the marketplace. You can see from the responses here that nearly everyone has a different opinion about grievous the offense mentioned is. Someone that spends a million dollars to furnish the public a place to shoot indoors deserves a little slack IMHO.. If you don't like their policies don't patronize them but I think trying to convince everyone else not to go is like shooting yourself in the foot.
Who decides where the line is and what warrants "bashing" and what doesn't?
I'm sorry, but this sounds an awful lot like the narrative we're hearing from the elitist health "experts."
Do you (or Mike) extend the same courtesy to Walmart? I mean, they spend billions of dollars to provide low-cost options to consumers, provide employment (with decent benefits) to local people, etc., but yet there's no shortage of Walmart bashing here on INGO. What's the difference?
Have you looked at what they define as negative experiences? An annual $5 charge and asking for ID are the most recent. There was the overzealous RO that was bad but it sounds like management got involved. As I asked yesterday, I’ll bet some members would get pretty hot if I alleged petty complaints about their favorite gun store…
That's why it's up to the people reading the review to discern what seems credible and what doesn't. And again, I look at trends. I'll go back to my example that I used earlier... If 90 out of 100 reviews are good (or bad) but 10 are bad (or good), I'm gonna go with the majority opinion if I don't have any direct experience myself. I'm not going to claim (as you have) that the 90 just don't know what they're talking about (with that whole margarine and Log Cabin syrup analogy).
The bottom line is that you (the universal you) are not in control of what other people do.
Who decides is the poster. We should not bash 2A suppliers for petty things. I hope this thread will make some think about was the slight they felt worth the damage they can do to a 2A supplier.
^^^This. Totally this.^^^
Or maybe the 2A supplier should strive to make sure they do the best they can to make sure their customers don't have a negative experience. Of course there will be people that just can't be pleased. I worked in retail and the restaurant business early on in my working years, so I know the difference. That's why it's important to look at trends. But people should not be silenced because of that.
Unless someone asks for your opinion, you don't get a vote.
To me the difference is there is a plethora of retailers but precious few places to shoot, particularly in the city. And everybody usually loves their gun store, visitors not as much…
If it were "Already My Favorite " gun store , Someone elses negative experience would not make me go find another shop .
