Article on DVD trading

[News]

For the low down on DVD trade sites, check out our article:

http://www.letsgetdigital.co.uk/articles/article9_trading.htm

[Deaks]

News <jcr...@freenetname.co.uk> wrote in message
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> For the low down on DVD trade sites, check out our article:
>
> http://www.letsgetdigital.co.uk/articles/article9_trading.htm
>
>

Just read this article, OK untill the brief but scathing comments about this
newsgroup. Totally unfair and showing zero amount of research. I have mailed
the author with the following.....

Deaks.

TO: star...@letsgetdigital.co.uk <star...@letsgetdigital.co.uk>

RE: DVD Trading article

Greetings!

I felt I had to write after reading your article on DVD trading sites. I had
no problem with the article until your mention of the uk.media.dvd
newsgroup, coincidentally where I found the link for this article!

Your comments about the group appeared to be based on virtually no first
hand experience of reading the group on a regular basis. To date I believe
there are only two traders that have a "Bad" reputation, compared to the 20+
individual trades and purchases I myself have made over the last few months.

The prices are also much more realistic, why pay someone for the privilage
of trading a DVD when on the newsgroups the two parties only pay postage.
Plus the range of titles is in another world, individuals often post in a
day a larger and more interesting stock of available titles than the last
two months stock on the trading sites.

No, you can keep your trading sites, no non-commercial site can ever hope to
build up even one tenth the readership and turnover of alt.media.dvd.

Deaks.

[Tony Brookes]

Well done, Deaks!

I've been trading for about two years now on this group and can
honestly say I have not had 1 bad trade in over 100 transactions!

It just takes abit of common sense when doing the deal and regular
reading of the group to see if the person trading is a regular here.
If they are not a regular - be wary. There was a thread a while back
regarding Zoe the Dog and the possibility of bad trading experiences so
I e-mailed a couple of questions and set some rules for the trade to
take place and completed the transaction with no problems at all -
thanks Zoe/Daniel.

I have not used the trading houses - purely on the basis of some charge
up to £5 for the facility - er, no thanks-stick it up your arse!

Regards, Tony the Long Term Trader!

____________________________

Tony Brookes
Manchester
UK

Using Virtual Access V5.50 build 311 on
Windows 2000 build 2195

www.atlantic-coast.com

[News]

I have updated the article with some comments from "the other side". I did
ask for comments whilst I was researching the article, but had no reply. It
seems that criticism is the only way to get any sort of reaction!

Anyway, the article has been updated, I welcome any further comments that
users of the ng may have.

Matt

http://www.letsgetdigital.co.uk

"Tony Brookes" <ton...@iname.com> wrote in message
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[News]

Article updated and reposted with some new contributions:

http://www.letsgetdigital.co.uk/articles/article9_trading.htm

Cheers

Matt

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