Let's get real!

[Steve Ashton]

I guess it is part of human nature that someone with strong pre-concieved notions and ideas can sometimes become upset with someone else with differing pre-concieved notions or ideas.

And then some will not listen to facts when presented simply because the do not fit within the pre-concieved ideas they hold.

It is always sad to see someone leave us. But we always wonder about the posts that are what are called "Farewell messages". If some one no longer wishes to be part of this community all they need do is stop logging on. After two years their registration will go "inactive" and after five years it will go "dormant".

We actually have a rule on X Marks -

Rule #7
- Too often ‘farewell messages’ are bitter and full of disappointment. Farewell messages will be deleted.


One farewell message post to this thread has been deleted, and one other post which quoted the farewell message has also been deleted IAW rule #7.

[OC Richard]

If we do not have an actual rental/hire person giving their input everything is just hearsay.

The information a hire firm puts on their own website is the opposite of hearsay. It is information directly from the source.

[Steve Ashton]

No, you are correct. But some of what is posted by members is hearsay as it is often just a photo and comment.

[Octobrachium]

The information a hire firm puts on their own website is the opposite of hearsay. It is information directly from the source.

Yes, but that source does more often than not inaccurately reflect how the actual hiring consultation goes down. In dialogue with a representative you generally have a lot more options than the written information offers. It very much depends on what customers actually ask for. I would think our goal here should be to inform potential hiring customers, because they are the active part in the process. Service changes most easily when customers demand something different.

Best example would be kilt hose. If a hiring customer comes in and says "I like the outfit, but don't want to wear white or cream hose" - how many hiring shops would go "cheerio then, go somewhere else"?

I agree with @kingandrew - Taskr's write-up, a little edited and with picture examples as a sticky thread in "How to put it on properly" and "General Talk", would already go a long way to inform people of the starting points.

[Baeau]

The information a hire firm puts on their own website is the opposite of hearsay. It is information directly from the source.

Richard........my personal experience with a few vendors & competitor businesses:

"Information, directly from the source is not necessarily correct. Again, my experience, many times it did involve hearsay, & personal opinion. Too often, incorrect. In one case, a means to keep customers from going elsewhere. That came to an end, when they lost a substantial lawsuit against a major goods manufacturer. What they put in their sales literature was ruled as not factual, completely false, & based solely on their opinion.''

[FossilHunter]

No, you are correct. But some of what is posted by members is hearsay as it is often just a photo and comment.

It might be that photos are used without reference to the rental company in order to avoid “naming and shaming”.

The concern seems to me more for the practices of the industry in general rather than targeting specific businesses for some kind of punishment.