Gerry Harvey backs away from online GST debate

I still haven't decided what my personal strategy would be to deal with these folks from retail who would sacrifice customer bang-for-the-buck for their profitability. If it's going to come down to war, using customers as cannon fodder, so be it. 

[Gerry Harvey, from the article linked below] He told The Age that the abuse had been particularly nasty on social media sites and blogs.

''You might have got a nasty phone call or a letter back in the old days but now anything slightly controversial, these people, whoever they might be, they go for you zealously and with hatred all over Twitter,'' he said.

No shit Sherlock! That is what the internet does -- gives the little guy some "leverage" so that big bullies like you will find it more difficult to get away with your shit. Everyone is a Sovereign Individual. You are rich because people buy from you -- voluntarily. The internet backlash is a reminder to you to not bite the hand which feeds you. Because it is the demands of CUSTOMERS which make the market you so cleverly "exploit".

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