Greetings everyone! This message is sent to the list and CC:'d directly to Marshall and Duncan to catch their attention. Direct replies accordingly, everyone.
A couple of questions have arisen about commercial activity rules for the silver list. Let me clarify. The present wording of the commercial activity rule is as follows: > No Commercial Activity > > This is a non-commercial forum. No vendor may participate except as > a private individual. No promotion of any kind is permitted without > my prior, explicit approval of each occurrence. No vendor or > representative may promote a particular product or malign any other. > > No vendor sales or solicitation is permitted except in private > e-mail. It is each member's responsibility to make sure all business > is conducted privately and not on the list, but it is especially the > vendors' responsibility to know how to reply off list to avoid > violating this rule. > > Exception: Reasonable use of signature files and taglines is > permitted. The list owner will judge what is "reasonable." With that understanding, lets address the first question: Marshall asked: > I though we were not supposed to be allowed to talk about our > competitors in this forum any more. ... What's the rule? He was responding to Ken's comment: > There is no reason to suspect that the plates are anything other than > .999 silver or better. Though Vince is a competitor, I don't think > he'd resort to that for the measly price difference. Probably, the > metallic taste increases with TE as some of the ionic silver content > converts to colloidal silver ..usually over night. That has been my > experience anyhow. I do not feel that Ken was promoting or maligning any product, nor soliciting business for himself. In that I don't think he violated "the letter of the law." His comment was intended to reassure a couple of members that there would be little for *any* vendor to gain and much to lose by supplying less than 99.9% pure silver. It was a reasonable response to a valid question and certainly did not violate the "spirit" of the rule. In other words, it was not in any way adversarial or self promoting on Ken's part and so does not undermine our goal of sharing "the most fair, unbiased, and good quality information we can, freely, without regard to ego or self interest," as expressed in our Mission Statement. I guess about the only problem something like Ken's remark could cause would be from backroom deals between vendors to promote each *other's* products. I certainly hope we won't have to deal with that! Secondly, I need to address Duncan Crow's offer: Duncan wrote: > I'm very familiar with these products; in fact, I'm a distributor. > ... As usual, listmates can get Royal Body Care products for > distributor cost by calling the company's toll-free number > 1-800-667-4450 and quoting my ID# 561325. The product line can be > seen on the official website www.rbcnow.com, where products can also > be purchased online. But the site will charge retail. > A distributor kit if you sign yourself up is $30. It contains all > the paperwork you need and a couple of tapes, and the ability to buy > at distributor cost and spawn distributors. Duncan is kindly giving list members access to wholesale prices on these products, but I frankly don't want the list to carry this kind of overt promotion as it is too likely to spawn imitators and confrontational competition. The above rule also states: > No promotion of any kind is permitted without my prior, explicit > approval of each occurrence. So Duncan needed to clear this with me and didn't. I will contact you privately, Duncan, to see if we can settle on equitable guidelines for you to follow. With that, I will repost the current list mission, rules, discipline policy and etiquette guidelines for everyone to review. In all I have to say the discussion is being well handled and new people's questions dealt with quite well. An occasional prod has been needed, but I've been amazingly untaxed over here! For that I thank you all. Be well, Mike Devour silver-list owner [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
