Since there seems to be a bit of confusion around who qualifies as a Member of the Trade and what they are allowed to post about I've put together a quick little run down.

Who are Members of the Trade??

A) anyone who makes or sells any audio related gear

any persons who have direct relationships with persons or companies who fall under (A)

C) anyone receiving gifts or money in return posts/threads

What are they allowed to do @ Head-case??

All members of the trade have the exact same posting rights as regular members. They just a custom title stating their company affiliation and are put into the Members of the Trade group. We don't want to restrict what MoT can post about we just want all the members to be aware or who the MoT are so they can take that into consideration when reading posts by said MoT.

Since there seems to be a bit of confusion around who qualifies as a Member of the Trade and what they are allowed to post about I've put together a quick little run down.

Who are Members of the Trade??

A) anyone who makes or sells any audio related gear

any persons who have direct relationships with persons or companies who fall under (A)

C) anyone receiving gifts or money in return posts/threads

What are they allowed to do @ Head-case??

All members of the trade have the exact same posting rights as regular members. They just a custom title stating their company affiliation and are put into the Members of the Trade group. We don't want to restrict what MoT can post about we just want all the members to be aware or who the MoT are so they can take that into consideration when reading posts by said MoT.

Direct relationship = sales rep, repair tech, advertising consultant, marketing director, business manager .... anything else?

Yep that pretty much covers it though I'm sure there are some others.

The other thing to be aware of is if you're used to being able to get away with being a shill and not getting called on it other places, that won't happen here. Head-case is a place where people WILL point out bad behavior, generally in as rude a way as they can come up with.