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Re: Is website linking to competitors needed? [message #2215 is a reply to message #2206]

Sat, 10 December 2005 20:02

Svargo
Messages: 16
Registered: April 2004
Location: Australia

Junior Member

Hi Folks,

Bonzo made me aware of the appeals from Kellymon and Jason to change our policy of not allowing links to competing didj websites. (so to be clear, links to non-commercial didj sites are ok)

Firstly it is against our commercial interest to build up this big didj community with our money and time and then allow our competitors to use it to advertise themselves and syphon our customers and visitors. (I am fully aware that this is not your intentions, but it would be unavoidable)

Secondly to change this policy would open a can of worms.
It would be very hard and time consuming or even impossible to draw a line (as to whom we allow links to and whom we do not) so we would have to allow links to all competitors, even Indonesian and Indian didj makers.

Thirdly most of our Aboriginal suppliers consider any didgeridoo made by someone non-indigenous for commercial purposes as stealing their cultural assets, no matter whether they cater to musicians or tourists or anyone else.
It would create tensions between us and our suppliers if they realised that we promote in any way people who reduce Aboriginal employment by selling Aboriginal cultural assets - and every non-indigenous didj cutter, maker and painter does exactly that. Every didj sold by these people is one less opportunity for Aborigines to sell their own products. It is a sad fact that Aborigines are getting squeezed out of the Aboriginal art industry and about 70-90% of so-called Aboriginal art is already made by non-indigenous people. This is reflected by the huge amount of didgeridoo sites selling didjes which are not made or even painted by Aboriginal people (most of which cleverly hide that fact or even lie about it).

We cannot stop these websites but please do not expect us to link to them or have them mentioned.
And we do not want to spend our time to sort the good from the bad apples (specially since most are bad or very bad ones) so it is much simpler to have no links to any competitors.

In most cases you can still say whatever you want without mentioning our competitors and we are sorry for any inconvenience caused in the few exceptions.
I believe that the price we would pay (and our Aboriginal suppliers) outweighs any possible inconvenience caused to forum user and I hope you will continue to participate in this forum.

Thanks, Kellymon, for correctly pointing out that this policy is not displayed anywhere - except in our newsletter at launch time (http://www.didjshop.com/newsletter/2004/04.html). We will add it to the forum FAQ's.

Svargo

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		Is website linking to competitors needed? By: warnerr on Sat, 10 December 2005 08:52
		Re: Is website linking to competitors needed? By: JKon380 on Sat, 10 December 2005 09:00
		But this is the apparent policy..... By: kellymon on Sat, 10 December 2005 11:38
		Re: Is website linking to competitors needed? By: Svargo on Sat, 10 December 2005 20:02
		Re: Is website linking to competitors needed? By: White Knight on Sat, 10 December 2005 21:34
		Re: Is website linking to competitors needed? By: warnerr on Sun, 11 December 2005 08:23
		Re: Is website linking to competitors needed? By: JKon380 on Mon, 12 December 2005 08:39
		Re: Is website linking to competitors needed? By: kellymon on Mon, 12 December 2005 09:16
		Re: Is website linking to competitors needed? By: Svargo on Mon, 12 December 2005 17:56
		Re: Is website linking to competitors needed? By: JKon380 on Mon, 12 December 2005 19:12

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