Lots of business done on forum websites.
Gunsmiths that are touted there become successful, optics dealers do large business volumes, and gun professionals post to tout themselves as experts.
The IOR example though is extremely egregious. When I was denied warranty work on a brand new scope, and found there was no facility closer than Romania that could service the scope, I realized my decision to own 5 IOR scopes had been a grave error. I sold them all over that Summer for best price I could get and still lost a substantial amount of money.
It is a severe failure of judgment for website or dealer to allow firms that essentially are a ponzi scheme to be promoted as viable entities when compared to truly functional scope manufacturers.
IOR at one time had a few legitimate wholesalers. Brownells and D&R Sports were two I know of. Their other "dealers" were individuals like uyptScott Berish who got to be dealers by buying/selling a $2500 order or 8 or more scopes. I don't know of any legitimate wholesalers handling IOR anymore. When the importer is a 2 person operation using a cassette tape answering machine and presenting a shoestring approach to business, how can you do business? Really, If IOR-Bucuresti the scope manufacturer cared about its USA reputation and its USA customers they would have a service center and extend a professional presence in America.
The websites know of the IOR BS. Frank Galli of Snipershide commented to me by PM that he heard lots of IOR horror stories... Still, they let IOR use their name and the dealers post continually as Berish does about all the new wonderful scopes from IOR he sells.
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