Klarinet Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 2006/12

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 1 Dec 2006 10:01:01 -0000 Issue 6986
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:19:52 -0500

Jeff's answer to Rommel John is a splendid and thoughtful piece
of writing.

Whenever anything goes wrong, there are people who see nefarious
evil involved. There are political situations in the world today
perceived in the same fashion. That was the way Senator McCarthy
worked. It had to be the Commies in the government, and people
flocked to that moron's banner.

Remember Boston Market? They began their business with a few
stores and made a fortune. Their stock went through the roof.
So they added more stores and their stock went up. And they added
more and more and more stores and finally went into bankruptcy.

The story of businesses (healthy, well-run business) that fail
because of management errors in marketing judgement is legendary.
Look at Ford, RIGHT NOW. Look at General Motors. Were there
ever two bigger and more important companies in America. They
are both hanging on with their fingertips.

I know. I know. The Communist conspiracy ruined them, or the
failure of the people to behave in a decent manner got God pissed
off, or the Gypsies did it, or the gay rights movement, or there
was too much sex (which gives headaches in any case).

Examine the top 100 companies in the US in 1900. I doubt if more
than two or three of them exist in any form today. They all went
belly up or got swallowed by smarter people.

Think Enron. Now there was bad management.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Albrecht [mailto:jeffn8wr@-----.net]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:55 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 1 Dec 2006 10:01:01 -0000 Issue
6986

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

-----------------------------------------------------------------
--
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc.
http://www.woodwind.org

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org