I agree completely, but the outcome has done my heart good. Dell may well be as blameless in all of this as they claim to be, but either way they are doing all that they can to disassociate themselves from the Brady Bunch. You'd think they'd been linked to the KKK, the way they're recoiling.
The message seems to be out there: don't antagonize the gun owners. It's not the "gun lobby" you'll have to deal with, but your own grass-roots customer base.
Of course, now that Dell has seen the stick and is doing the right thing, let's not skimp on the carrot.
I agree. Dell did the right thing by correcting the mistake, but he decided to bite off more than he can chew.
Exactly right. I've been trying to offer a level-headed perspective on these threads for days and most just don't want to listen. At the point when Mr. Weigand blew off the admission of a mistake and turned down a free notebook--a gesture I can't imagine ANY other computer manufacturer making--he became a grandstander. And when he started talking about the utter nonsense of Dell "supporting" an anti-gun group simply because a site is one of untold THOUSANDS of affiliate sites that are signed up and approved with NO screening process, he started to sound ignorant to anyone with the faintest understanding of how e-commerce affiliate relationships work. In case folks have not yet figured it out, Dell is probably the ONLY conservative major computer maker in the world. Keep it up; maybe our own people will manage to drive them to the other side of the fence out of sheer stupidity.
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