This topic was split from our previous thread about stereonet censoring our brand from their forum because we believe it deserves its very own thread and for good reason !
Check it out. People paying good money to stereonet to become a sponsor only to have their sponsorship undermined by stereonets own moderators in favour of what appears to be a non-spaying sponsor ! You just can't make this stuff up. Backed up by credible evidence the apathy and arrogance towards it by the forums owner is truly astonishing and yet to this day nothing gets done and the corruption is allowed to perpetuate. Instead the whistle blowers are silenced and banished from the forum but the blatant corruption is allowed to continue unabated and nobody can say a single thing for fear of being shouted down or banned !!
Even well-paying sponsors forking out thousands if not tens of thousands a year in sponsorship money are oblivious to what is going on right before their very eyes but the evidence doesn't lie. And all because of one particular brand who for all intents and purpose is not a paying sponsor !! What's the real deal Stereonet ?? Even if there are vested interests in this particular brand shouldn't all of this be disclosed to the relevant parties before they hand over their hard earned $$$ to you ? Even if there is a vested interest what are these moderators doing favouring this brand over the paying sponsors brands ? None of it makes any sense but one thing is for sure be very careful before you start handing over your money to the stereonet coffers. You are not getting value for money from them and just underwriting this particular vendors amplifier products. It's buyer beware !!
I think it's the other way around when it comes to apologies !
My dispute with Mark (Marc) Rushton that got me banned and all my comments completely deleted had to do with the constant plugging by his moderators of a non paying sponsor, ELEKTRA over a paying sponsor being Anthony Holton. I have over 40 screen shots where Betty Boop has tried to sway forum members away from paying sponsors like Holton and OAD etc. towards Elektra. I bought this to Marcs (Marks) attention and was told on the forum how Stereonet forum is run as a comercial enterprise and Marc (Mark) would do whatever he sees fit.
This is what happened next.
I let Anthony know what was going on, that I had an unsolicited PM from a forum member offering me a substantial discount on 4 ELEKTRA amplifiers to power my 4 way active. Armed with this evidence Holton then approached Rushton. Holton then sent me this email.
From: "Holton Precision Audio" <info@holtonprecisionaudio.com>
Date: 5 Mar 2018 13:19
Subject: RE: Stereonet and the moderators.
To: "Michael Hope" <mickiboi007@gmail.com>
Cc:
Hi Mick
When I received your email last week I was somewhat shocked that you actually
Approached Marc the way you did, I did respond to Marc following your email asking him to clean up his moderators behaviour.
He did not respond well to me and denied he or his moderators had done anything wrong and then accused me of offending him deeply and proceeded to tell me what I knew to be more lies about you and my good friend Matt Pullen.
All very typical Narcissistic behaviour on his part, I have had the misfortune to have encountered many times in my life from these types of people.
Matt has now been banned from the SNA forum and Marc basically said to me if I wasn't happy leave and do not renew the $2000 invoice for a year subscription on SNA.
He also added if I believed what you had said about him was true he did not want me there anyway.
The fact is I witnessed it all in any case over the last 12 months with my own eyes I did not need any convincing it was going on from you.
Marc shutdown the SNA forum for about 4 hrs the other day, most likely to redact all of the evidence on his site that might incriminate him;
So at this stage I intend to leave SNA at the end of March when the subscription runs out.
It's been a tough road for me over the last 2 years or so financially and frankly I am getting very tired. No doubt I have lost sales from these moderators behaviour to Electra.
Matt and I are talking about setting our own forum up, but we will see.
Cheers Anthony
Kind Regards
Anthony E Holton
Holton Audio
Tasmania, Australia
holtonaudio.com
holtonprecisionaudio.com
https://www.facebook.com/HoltonAudio
https://www.facebook.com/DIYHoltonAudio
Phone inside of Australia: 0417 787 659
Phone outside of Australia: 61 417 787 659
SkypeID's : aholton
This is the PM I was sent, with my reply to the unsolicited offer. The mobile phone number has been removed. I have not called that number but I believe it matches up to one of the moderators mobile phones.
Hi Mick.
I see you are after some amplifiers for your 4 way active build.I see you are looking at Holton on the thread you started but I can get you Elektra at a substantial discount compared to what's being offered in store especially seeing as though you will need 4 of them.You can audition the amplifiers at Sonic Purity and I can get you Reference HD for $2500 each if you buy 4.This is a very good offer giving you massive savings over the retail price.This would only be open to you and I would respectfully request that this offer not be made public.If you are interested then reply to this PM with your phone number and someone will be in contact with you or call 0412 XXX XXX and tell him who you are and you want to buy some Elektra amps.Good luck with the build I'm sure it will sound fabulous.
Whoever you are.
I'm not really interested in Elektra amps. You may have seen my posts on the forum about the internal build quality of the Elektra amps, I think they are rubbish and I have no interest them, I would prefer Holton as I have stated in the thread. I'm not sure how forum sponsors who pay money to Stereonet and expect a return on their investment via people frequenting their shops and paying full price would react to this unsolicited offer depriving them of revenue, which I think is very deceitful.
I will be informing Mark Rushton and Anthony Holton of this. Do not contact me again.
Mick Hope
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Some screen shots from SNA showing the constant plugging by stereonet moderators.
There is no conspiracy theory here! Really?
I suppose those posts from Betty Boop above have come from a different time continuum. I will testify in a court of law as to the veracity and sequence of events to the above.
In the second post you can see Betty Boop has promoted Elektra above the following paying sponsors who sell Parasound A52+. Audio Trends in Melbourne, Douglas HiFi in Perth and Sydney HiFi in Mona Vale. I would not be too happy paying $2000 a year or whatever is demanded of them, in order to have a potential customer being swayed to the direction of another product who doesn't pay any money but gets his advertising free courtesy of Stereonets' moderators. Unbelievable. I wonder how many sales were lost by these paying sponsors. Just like Holton did. In the third post Betty throws Rotel under the bus too. The guy doesn't even mention Rotel but Betty gets a dig in at them anyway. Klapp, Space HiFi, Tivoli, Todds and West Coast HiFi all have one of their products slammed as TOO EXPENSIVE by this moderator. Nice work Stereonet.
