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and tbh most people have made good constructive comments, where as some others who obviously have a problem with xs and sal are making it blatantly known. Myself personally i've never met or had any dealings with xs or sal. 
At the end of the day, i've bought plenty of things of the zone, off plenty of peeps (including you jonbjonb wrote:Salmans counting his money at the moment....
Or maybe booking plane tickets to pakistan.
Im staying well out of this though.
) and never had a problem, it's where i get 99% of stuff/info for my car......it's just not worth it imo. 
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...like Sal gave to Kos...HartgeH27 wrote:I wont lock the thread but give the ZONE some respect dudes...
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Email FTWIn which case, once the zone is turning profit, it must have a members representative on the "board", with no financial concern for the zone, so activities remain open and known to members. That way an affiliated business will be transparent and working in an ethical fashion. This would only enhance an honest traders reputation.Ant wrote:No-one will let the zone become a comercially biased forum, however we do need to move forward and income is a way to assure all our futures.
The Key is balance, and the balance will remain tipped in favour of the members.
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why should the transactions go through the shop... that is a very stupid idea if i member found a good deal and the shop wanted to make there profit on top of thatdaimlerman wrote:Perhaps the way forward is for anyone with a group buy idea to pass on contact information to the zone shop.This way we would all benifit.The shop would make a profit(thats what shops are supposed to do)and we,the zone members would abtain a better deal than we could get for ourselves.Suppliers would also benifit from a captive market.I expect that the shop would acknowledge whoevers idea they are using....
Unless ive completeley lost the plot isnt the above the whole point of this topic.A member found and offered a product for a good price, his thread was hijacked by another member, who then went on to misrepresent (alledgedley) himself to the makers/suppliers. They went on to offer the same product through their shop. Thus cutting the original member out of the deal completeley. Have no axe to grind with the Zone shop or anyone involved with it but wtf is wrong with ANY member being allowed to offer a product to any other member here,especially as it was intended as a group buy. As the member who hijacked the thread has apologised for what he/they admitted was the wrong thing to do how about the hijacker offering any profit made on this deal to a charity of the original members choice, and we can ALL move on.ad318i wrote:why should the transactions go through the shop... that is a very stupid idea if i member found a good deal and the shop wanted to make there profit on top of thatdaimlerman wrote:Perhaps the way forward is for anyone with a group buy idea to pass on contact information to the zone shop.This way we would all benifit.The shop would make a profit(thats what shops are supposed to do)and we,the zone members would abtain a better deal than we could get for ourselves.Suppliers would also benifit from a captive market.I expect that the shop would acknowledge whoevers idea they are using....
from what i gatherdaimlerman wrote:Perhaps the way forward is for anyone with a group buy idea to pass on contact information to the zone shop.This way we would all benifit.The shop would make a profit(thats what shops are supposed to do)and we,the zone members would abtain a better deal than we could get for ourselves.Suppliers would also benifit from a captive market.I expect that the shop would acknowledge whoevers idea they are using....
Middlemen are a factor in life, if you buy Heinz beans they've been through several distrubution companies, each has added to the final cost , welcome to a consumer driven capitalist economy.wish i could make 5% on deals i had nothing to do with
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