In other cases you would be right, but not in this one.
We are not ridiculing, most of us here are warning him. Reading trade magazines tells you a lot about what is going on in the real world, what is being dumped on the market at what prices. Not a week passes when we ourselves don't receive an offer like that from unknown sources, unknown companies, unknown origins. And we pass on it.
I do hope he does not burn his fingers, but you cannot compare this with an innovative idea: oh everyone is reforesting, lets make more money with deforesting. Everyone is making sure they produce and sell high quality, lets just produce rubbish to enter the market and sell it to 'have a go too' traders or individuals.
And feel free to call us principled or even naive to think this will one day stop happening. But if we and other don't call out and try to stop these mostly from deforestation sourced products and badly made, who will?
We are not ridiculing, most of us here are warning him. Reading trade magazines tells you a lot about what is going on in the real world, what is being dumped on the market at what prices. Not a week passes when we ourselves don't receive an offer like that from unknown sources, unknown companies, unknown origins. And we pass on it.
I do hope he does not burn his fingers, but you cannot compare this with an innovative idea: oh everyone is reforesting, lets make more money with deforesting. Everyone is making sure they produce and sell high quality, lets just produce rubbish to enter the market and sell it to 'have a go too' traders or individuals.
And feel free to call us principled or even naive to think this will one day stop happening. But if we and other don't call out and try to stop these mostly from deforestation sourced products and badly made, who will?