[mythtvnz] Anyone bought from Kaiser Baas Australia

[ajp at cantabrian.co.nz]

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz [mailto:mythtvnz-
>> bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Hadley Rich
>> Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013 9:35 p.m.
>> To: MythTV in NZ
>> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Any bought from Kaiser Baas Australia
>> 
>> On 21/08/13 19:16, Nick Rout wrote:
>> > I don't know if the product is different, I suspect it is the same.
>> > Hads at nicegear has been fantastic to me and I have never met a
>> > dissatisfied customer. He went out of the way for me after the 2011
>> > earthquake when I urgently needed networking gear to get my business
>> running.
>> >
>> > In fact I helped hook him up his distribution arrangement for the HD
>> > Homerun, but have no financial or other pecuniary interest in whether
>> > he sells any. I just simply think he is a great guy, supports open
>> > source, supports mythtv and deserves our support, rather than some
>> > Australian retailer probably owned by capitalist wankers.
>> 
>> Thanks Nick, that's really nice to hear and very kind of you to say.
>> 
>> 
>> I've chatted with the distributors for SiliconDust about pricing and the
whole
>> Kaiser Baas thing. Kaiser Baas have their own separate arrangement with
the
>>> manufacturer for re-branding and sell direct to the public as they do
with
>> other things.
>> 
>> As it stands, we (nicegear) can't compete on price unfortunately, but
hope to
>> compete with level of service. I'm certainly not offended if people want
to
>> get a better deal overseas, I personally weigh up the options and do the
>> same thing.
>> 
>> To have something related to the list topic, the HDHomeRun works well
with
>> MythTV, I use one myself and haven't had any issues at all.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> hads (from Australia for the week)
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>> http://nice.net.nz
>> 

Thanks everyone for frank and honest advice it's appreciated :-)