Reply To: Karanyi Customer Experience. Caveat Emptor.

[peter]

I want to update this thread.

I used Karanyi’s customer support form the other day to share this story. I don’t know the owner or owners of Karanyi and they don’t know me; I’m just a regular paying customer. Their support person, Oilver, got back to me with a friendly email. He told me that he forwarded on my message to the company’s management. As, I’m sure this is a very small business with no more than a few employees, I would expect if they care, we’ll hear back from them.

Once again, I want people to use this forum to share their honest experiences with developers and all the companies in this industry that we buy from. I believe that benefits others and smart companies listen to positive and negative feedback, bad ones ignore negative feedback or worse — like Fluffy Audio — attack those who publicly share negative experiences. I think we should give all businesses in this space the benefit of the doubt and an opportunity to share their side and make things right when there’s a problem — because problems are a reality for every business.

Companies have power in this sense. But this community provides a platform to musicians and producers that won’t be obstructed by the commercial interests of the site owner like most communities, especially, in my personal experience, VI-Control. I’m always going to ensure this a place where fairness and openness is the standard. However, I will always prioritize the interests of our musician and producer community members. Businesses have power due to their spending  — for example, the advertising and sponsorships they do on sites like VI-Control. Affiliate relationships also can be a place for a business to leverage power. If you want to see how little influence that has with me, I invite you to look at the thread when Best Service went down. Zero shilling for the retailer. Zero spin. Zero censoring of honest, civil conversations.

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