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Sean Freeman · 10th November 2007, 07:49 PM

You have kind of missed the point I was trying to make to you with regards your analogy, so I will try to rephrase the problems......

The product...chainsaw 020 is identical from US or from Oz (ok their may be very slight variations but none significant)
The dealership..Stihl identical in some very important economic senses, parent company offshore, manufacture offshore, r&d offshore. Yes the actual owner/operator of the premises is local to the area and they will invest a proportion of their profits into local economy.
The savings made by purchaser of saw will in all likelihood be invested in local goods and services (no guarentee sure)

The product....unskilled unknowledgeable hacking labour, damages not only the tree in question (not such a big deal with removals) but surrounding vegetation and built assets, reinforces the nonsense that this kind of crap work is acceptable in our communities today.....compared to Eric's work..please there's no comparison...THEY ARE NOT IN THE SAME INDUSTRY.
(I don't really know what term you could use to describe the work that hackers do..malicious damage perhaps?)
The provider of the product (the labour) again do you really need me to draw comparisons?????
The savings...what savings?? who pays for the damages asociated with such substandard work? The owner for sure but we all do eventually.

Is the purchase of a foriegn designed built and imported product from a dealership in the US as opposed to a dealership down the road, comparable to the purchase of services(?) from hacks or an Arborist...simply because there is a (mistaken) view that $$$ savings are occuring in both...I don't think they are comparable, and I think it weakens your arguement to choose to use and then defend such a weak comparison to support what is actually quite a strong arguement about the importance of choosing where and how we each of us spend our hard earned.

10th November 2007, 07:49 PM	#32 (permalink)
Sean Freeman PDF King & Arborist Extrodinaire Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland Posts: 1,781	Re: Help from our friends in the US You have kind of missed the point I was trying to make to you with regards your analogy, so I will try to rephrase the problems...... The product...chainsaw 020 is identical from US or from Oz (ok their may be very slight variations but none significant) The dealership..Stihl identical in some very important economic senses, parent company offshore, manufacture offshore, r&d offshore. Yes the actual owner/operator of the premises is local to the area and they will invest a proportion of their profits into local economy. The savings made by purchaser of saw will in all likelihood be invested in local goods and services (no guarentee sure) The product....unskilled unknowledgeable hacking labour, damages not only the tree in question (not such a big deal with removals) but surrounding vegetation and built assets, reinforces the nonsense that this kind of crap work is acceptable in our communities today.....compared to Eric's work..please there's no comparison...THEY ARE NOT IN THE SAME INDUSTRY. (I don't really know what term you could use to describe the work that hackers do..malicious damage perhaps?) The provider of the product (the labour) again do you really need me to draw comparisons????? The savings...what savings?? who pays for the damages asociated with such substandard work? The owner for sure but we all do eventually. Is the purchase of a foriegn designed built and imported product from a dealership in the US as opposed to a dealership down the road, comparable to the purchase of services(?) from hacks or an Arborist...simply because there is a (mistaken) view that $$$ savings are occuring in both...I don't think they are comparable, and I think it weakens your arguement to choose to use and then defend such a weak comparison to support what is actually quite a strong arguement about the importance of choosing where and how we each of us spend our hard earned. __________________ Sean Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. - Kahlil Gibran