Klarinet Archive - Posting 000006.txt from 2006/12

From: Jeff Albrecht <jeffn8wr@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 1 Dec 2006 10:01:01 -0000 Issue 6986
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:55:23 -0500

Rommel John Miller wrote:

" And that is why I call the ethics of the decision into question, something
deeper and more sinister and darker must be afoot here, and if workers were
treated poorly, that is onething and is outright unethical, but I suspect worse
was underway, and that a skimming of the books, or outright fraud by someone
within the corporation might well be to blame.

Something is more rotten here than meets the eye, for WWBW was too big, too
massive, too much a presence like K-Mart or Walmart to suffer this defeat,
some deeper, unknown and nefarious reason for its demise must be at the
source of its fall.

If anyone knows of an investigative report being done in one of the trade
papers on the WWBW bankruptcy I love to read about it. "

I'm sorry but this conspiracy theory on your part is utter nonsense, and if you
have even a faction of the legal education you claim you had in the referenced
post, you should know better than to make such unfounded accusations as these.
If you had bothered to read the actual news articles regarding the bankruptcy,
you might see that the following were more likely reasons for the Chapter 11
filing:

1. The 9-million dollar decision against WWBW in US District Court as a result
of a lawsuit filed by the Zapf brothers, the former owners of what became Music
123.

2. WWBW tried a much-too-ambitious expansion, as tevidenced by their
acquisition of any number of smaller music stores and chains.

3. Poor aniticipation of what the costs these expansions would be.

4. (This is my own personal guess) THe owner of WWBW did not fully understand
what this ewxpansion would cost him and his company, and did not plan to have
adequate capital to deal with those costs. This is one of the prime reasnons
many small busiinesses fail, and WWBW was a small business, by the usual
definitions of the term.

Ascribing sinister conspiracy theories to their downfall is more than just
foolish on your part; it implies a malice that is undeserved and unearned by
their general business reputation. As others may recall from the posts you
made when you were initially complaining about your experiences of buying an
R13 from them, you had unrealistic expectations to begin with, and you freely
admitted it to the group. Any number of EXPERIENCED purveyors of fine
clarinets attempted to explain to you that your desire to get a perfect
instrument "fresh out of the box" without someone setting up the instrument and
testing and adjusting it was pure fantasy. Clarinets require proper setup.
You seemed unwilling to accept that reasonable premise, and instead, decided to
level unfounded accusations on WWBW. I'm sorry, but that alone should
immediately discredit much of what you have stated regarding that company, and
in particular, your comments in this line of discussion.

Jeff

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