Nick, I have watched other threads in other parts of your boards attacking you for some business practice (I wasn’t even sure what they heck they were talking about). I don’t even remember what it was. However I do remember thinking the posters were nuts. You never asked us for anything, we
voluntarily paid Nachi every month for advertisement. You never asked for a kick back and always seemed to have Nachi members first and formost in your thoughts and actions.
What does boggle me though are statements you make like this. You and I both know this is 100% not true. I cannot tell you how many people, mainly energy auditors not home inspectors, that we educate on infrared only to have you guys come in behind us and low ball the camera. If you google “Fluke TiR”, a post made a long time ago by a member ranks extremely well. So when potential customers (not just ours, anyone selling a TiR) go to research the camera they find that post. They then read the boards, and find inspectoroutlet selling TiR’s. So everything is fine and dandy, because after all we pay Nachi every month for advertisement, they would never under cut us. Plus they already agreeded contractually to another entity to only sell to their members. The problem is that usually isn’t the case. The loop hole is, you give away a free membership with the camera, so now those people can become Nachi members. Which you can now fulfill your contractual obligations and only sell to your members.
The bottom line is, you are benefiting the consumer and your members. I do not see a flaw in that. My only issue is, you can do it without breaking a contractual obligation that you and I both know you agreed to, and signed! You could of also done this without undercutting your own sponsors.
On Monday we will test this “I only care about Nachi members getting the best deal possible theory”.
If any of you buy one of these cameras before Monday (actually you can’t anyway, they are not even out yet), you will be doing yourself a dis-service.
David if you really think this is all about selling cameras, you are way off. I know if you just read this thread that is how it appears, plus Chris is just frustrated and comes across very abrasive in his posts. He really is a very calm and composed person.
A better analogy would be for you to pay the yellow pages for an add, then the yellow pages starts up a home inspection business that only charges $99. Or another one would be for the yellow pages to only agree to give these $99 home inspections away to consumers that buy a full page add. You then later find out they use their white page affiliation and offer it to anyone listed in there (even that is a bad analogy).
And do you honestly think we are gougers for advertising the cameras at list? Go google any Fluke or FLIR infrared camera. Any guess why everyone advertises all the models at the same exact price? That is what happens when you are a man(woman) of your word, and that my friend is the real issue here! Do you think all those companies that advertise infrared cameras at the same price are gougers? Do you think we are gougers for fulfilling our contractual agreements? Go through the Ideal section on our site and compare us to anyone. The Knipex section, Makita, Bosch, you name it. We get very good pricing from manufactures and pass it on to the consumer, we are not gougers!
JJ