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05/08/2002 Entry: "DCI and Drumsmith .com"

There is the drum message board called Drum Center Forum, which is hosted by the Drum Center of Indianapolis. The guy who runs the joint, Harry, announces that he is going to make the site a pay site: $35 a year--which also includes a $35 gift certificate to his store. Now, I'm not big on paying for content on the web, but hey, how else are you going to make money with a content driven site? The difference is, this site's content is totally driven by the members. So Ron Dunnett, the custom snare drum maker, get's in a huff, blows outta there, and starts his own board, drumsmith.com. Now, Ron has set up the censoring program of the message board to block the initials DCI. I can see not wanting to get into a flame war, but to not even be allowed to mention "that other site" is a bit childish, I think.

Here's the question: should I buy a snare drum from someone whom I don't know that I like very much personally? I mean, one of Ron's snares is on my Snares to Get list. But I don't know that I want to buy a drum from a guy with a pick-up-my-ball-and-go-home attitude.

What would you do?