Hearthlist Digest #418 - Sunday, February 27, 2000
 
Sv: Ethics in the Hearth Business
  by "toftegaards ovne" <[email protected]>
Re: Bloopers and Supers rating....
  by "by way of Craig Issod" <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: Sv: Ethics in the Hearth Business
From: "toftegaards ovne" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:34:26 -0500
 
>From Nicholas Taylor   [email protected]
 
I read the Emails that  are posted to my site almost daily, I 
sometimes think we are the only Europeans  receiving the Hearthlist 
Digest, and am amazed how different are the attitudes to business, 
there seems to be a lot of business takeovers and amalgamations, 
sales expectations, and failures, very little on product development, 
burning efficiency=B4s and customer satisfaction,  we run a small firm, 
customer satisfaction is our main aim, we achieve this by selling 
them good products, most people seem to be unable to tell the 
difference between a poor stove and an excellent stove, we know we 
are making a better business, and a better service to our community 
by selling the best stoves, the only possible reason for not doing so 
is to make some quick money and lose our reputation and sense of self 
worth, tell me , am I some kind of dinasaur , is there nobody out 
there making business ethically, I hope I am wrong...
 
 

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Subject: Re: Bloopers and Supers rating....
From: "by way of Craig Issod" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:44:55 -0500
 
At 03:22 PM 02/26/2000 , you wrote:
>Hearthlist Digest #417 - Saturday, February 26, 2000
>
> >Subject: Soul, Food for Thought
> >From: "Tex McLeod" <[email protected]>
> >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:55:24 -0500
>
> >Proposal: let's ask Hearthlist subscribers to make nominations (we
> >are a community, right) for the hearth company or individual with the
> >most soul.
>
>Tex,
 
For the first couple of years on Hearthlist I always made it a point 
to come back from the Trade Show with my Bloopers and Supers 
rating..... but it appeared the Hearthlist lurkers just yawned and 
moved on.... even when I tried to be cute.
 
I think your idea is great.  We should using this media as an 
opportunity to influence manufacturers and educate factory reps as to 
our needs.... but as with many great ideas the desire to not create 
controversy, criticize or speak out of turn tends to urge silence. 
After all we are all so busy minding our business that we sometimes 
forget this is our business.
 
So I will collect a few notes and will present some zingers after the 
Baltimore show ..... but right now I am just too too busy to speak 
out };>)
 
Ken Fulgione
 
 
 
 
 
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