(03-27-2016, 03:19 AM)Chuck Wrote: I'm not saying he did anything illegal, but he lied to a lot of people on a lot of occasions in a community where people perhaps naively put a lot of implicit trust in others in the community.
(03-27-2016, 08:05 AM)NeoXerxes Wrote: Gentlemen, isn't digging up and dusting off the artisan's alleged wrongdoings rather unproductive?
(03-27-2016, 12:04 PM)SCShaver Wrote: Provide some honest criticism of the products and leave the artisan out of it.
(03-27-2016, 12:25 PM)vtmax Wrote: People do deserve second chances. Everyone makes mistakes. Unfortunately everything Chuck wrote did happen....going back two years. It does only scratch the surface as Chuck mentioned. We were around then. Just awful behavior.
I have no idea what he did or didn't do nor do I care one wit. In the big scheme of life it matters not. So I will repeat what I said in the OneBlade thread about the owner of that company and in that case, the owner was convicted of a crime paying a civil fine. In this case I see no conviction of any crime.
Many major companies has been convicted of some kind civil offense and pay MASSIVE, absolutely MASSIVE fines. They broke some kind of law. Here are a few examples:
1. Almost EVERY car company has been fined for violating law, some involving dead people (e.g., Ford, GM, Hyundai, Honda, Nissan, Lotus, Toyota, BMW, etc.) The list is endless and these fines are HUGE. And some involve people dying. Whatever this guy did is peanuts.
2. And then we got the really big fines: BP, GlaxoSmithKline, and the upcoming VW scandal
3. International fines in the Hundreds of Millions: Samsung, Bridgestone, Qantas air and the list goes on and on
4. P&G settled on
Price Fixing This effects all of us. I'll guess few know about this.
5. Intel fined $1.4B by the EU for anticompetitive
behavior.
If you think the traditional wet shaving industry is immune, how about:
1. Trumpers fined
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ushes.html
2. Gillette fined
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...2082&hl=en
3. Wilkinson false advertising
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/18/busine...e-ads.html
So if you drive about ANY car, buy any product from any company who broke a law and was fined (which includes far more things that you can imagine), or are reading this with an Intel chip and then complain about this guy, that sure sounds hypocritical to me. I am not defending the behavior of anyone, just saying, if someone is going to be concerned about the behavour of company owners, then look closely at every object you buy because you might find your selection very limited.