To go back to my original point ...... etc
I think you're terribly confused and conflating all sorts of ideas. Let me try to sort out a few things.
1. I have never said, nor do I believe, that everyone should buy things off the internet. I said that people will buy things from wherever they get the best service and price. That could be the internet or it could be the High Street. If it's a generic good that you can get anywhere though, the writing has been on the wall for 15 years now.
2. I have never said that I wouldn't buy something from you. In fact I've said the opposite. I've said that if there was a good butcher or baker in my town I'd buy from them even if they're more expensive - as I do with the greengrocers. I don't, for the simple reason that they're rubbish at their business - like the vast majority of small shopkeepers in the UK. If you are great at what you do and in my High Street I'll gladly buy from you, be very grateful for you and tell all my friends. If you're crap, and most are, I won't, even if you think I should.
3. My product, VoIP, can ONLY be bought using the internet. It couldn't exist without the internet, it was born from the internet. Good luck with finding it in a box on the High Street.
4. If you are only buying stuff from people who buy from you I guess you have no TV, no electricity, no telephone, no internet, no water, no car, no education etc etc etc. That's a plainly daft argument which I assume you don't really mean.
I am not suggesting for one minute that cjd is a bad person
Well that's good to hear ;-)
his accounts show he has had a few years of reasonable growth.
Now that's a bit of an understatement isn't it? In 5 years we've grown organically from nothing to £2m+ turnover, have no debt, have been profitable from year one and employ 18 people. We're still growing at 5% per month during a recession and we've been judged the best small business provider in the UK for 3 years now.
Ironically our argument has made me more likely to at least talk to him. All I was pointing out that was that a public forum is a dangerous place to be at times.
You should choose us ONLY because we provide the best VoIP service in the UK at an honest price. We believe in relationships too, but we currently serve over 25,000 customers so it's not personal, it's done through good customer support and robust services and the fact that you can call us and talk to a real human being with a lot of knowledge and power to act on it.
You'll see that I've been on this forum for 6 years now and made 12,000 posts - I don't find it dangerous at all, in fact the opposite, I'm here to say what I think - not say whatever it takes to sell another telephone number.
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