My aim is clear: you need to reverse all the wrong decisions. The purpose of this page is not derision, or damage to Trinamic, or its users.
The purpose of Trinamic so far has been to damage me, and to exclude me from competition with their other distributors.
Yes, they want to damage me. How else can we call the lie that my software is discontinued for technical problems?
Most probably Trinamic never read this page. They only read the link to it on the main page, which says that they are "amoral".
They failed to read this page. So, they thought I gave no arguments. So, they thought I simply call them names.
Are we so stupid to believe that? No. Trinamic did not think I call them names.
They pretend to believe so. They do very well know that they are wrong.
That's why they simply delete my arguments (all links to my web page, my profile on their Forum),
instead of arguing, or leaving the decision up to the reader, which is what free speech is.
I got an intimation that the order to sabotage me came from Guido Gandolfo.
He is the director of sales department.
But instead of doing his job of looking for new sales, he does the opposite:
gets rid of existing customers.
He is the tetchy, capricious cry-baby, who wrote me that ugly letter back in 2007, and started the conflict.
He silently dictates to remove my criticism.
There is no excuse for such vile, low deed.
One thing is persecution. It is a war of words.
Quite another thing is when they turn it into physical damage: a disruption of orders, and of production, financial loss.
Trinamic twists my arms. They know that users are forced to use their products for long time. Users have no escape from Trinamic. We have to buy it.
Guido Gandolfo oppresses not only me. His subordinates do suffer as well. Imagine how bad, and depressed the staff of his department should feel, when he forces them to implement his illegitimate, obscene wishes. This is so sad, and perverse!
non-compliance with the agreement with Trinamic.
The restoration of supply means that at least for the time being I may resume selling to you
all other items from Trinamic. Not just the ones in my stock.
This does not mean of course, that the quality of their products or services has suddenly improved.
I keep the supply as a matter of fact. - Only for people, who are content, or know what they are buying.
For some simple applications the products of Trinamic are still good enough.
Other people should ask me for alternative solutions. I list them in my offer, linked above.
Dear Andrew, please keep out our forum as long as you have your website denigrating Trinamic. Thanks.
(This message first emerged on June 30, 2009. It is the only explanation I have from them so far.
You may see it yourself, if you try and register a new user on the Forum with my e-mail address.
They also ban all access to the Forum from IP addresses from my country.)
In another message of denial, designed to block on another e-mail address of mine,
they also quote the first sentence of the link on the main page to the page, which you are reading now.
It says that "Trinamic is amoral". They fail to quote the second sentence, which says that relations improved.
My Web site started in May 2008 - long after they blocked me on the Forum. So, the existence of the Web site is an invalid excuse.
I still do not know why I was blocked since Decemeber 13, 2007.
As you see, they block me not because of what I contributed to the Forum, but
because of what I say off the Forum.
They will block you too, if you say something off the Forum. The fact that you may speak the
truth does not matter to them at all.
Isn't this amoral?
I do not denigrate Trinamic. I speak the truth. Trinamic denigrates me publicly on the Forum:
http://www.trinamic.com/ttdg/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=1408
http://www.trinamic.com/ttdg/viewtopic.php?t=1408
It is only a naked statement. No arguments given. Why Andrew is so bad? It is obvious that this is not a good wish From Guido Gandolfo. It is designed to harm me.
The staff of Trinamic complains that I call them immoral. Let's look at what
they are actually doing. The member of the management board of Trinamic - Bernhard
Dwersteg - writes there: Thanks for your comment
.
Does he thank me? No. He thanks the liar Guido Gandolfo for denigrating me.
Does he restrain him? No.
Does he delete the stupid message? No.
Is this moral? No...
Criticizm is not denigration. If my words are unpleasant, you should remedy the situation.
Instead Trinamic takes offence. The only ones to get angry at for them are they themselves.
This statement by Trinamic is a lie in itself.
I tell only the truth. It is Guido Gandolfo, who brings ill fame to Trinamic, and even lies about me
privately and publicly. The company should ban him instead. Or make him apologize.
I never broke any trade agreement. Trinamic did. If they wish to deny any of my supposedly
wrong statements, I may put their comments on my web site. But they never chose to justify
themselves, because there's no justification for what they did.
Gary:... you should keep your problems with trinamic less public. ...
I know they make bad decisions but you are making yourself look bad.
If someone cares about me being bad, then one is a moral person.
But a moral person would not fail to note that I am good, because I am right.
Trinamic themselves do not refrain from going public about me. (See the link #1408 above.) Why would not you perceive them as bad? In private they spread even more lies about me.
Morality is not optional. It is human nature, and even obligation.
Even if you
do not care about morality, you should care about yourself. I let everyone know whom
they are dealing with. Everyone, who deals with Trinamic, who promotes their
products, who contributes to their Support Forum, and even mere buyers - all of you risk
"deletion" as a "gratitude".
It is this knowledge, which I spread, what helped force Trinamic to return distributorship to a few "deleted" distributors, including Gary.
By abusing me Trinamic abused everyone.
Consider the case with dumping prices, which I explain on the main page of this
directory about Trinamic. It affects all.
Trinamic Motion Control GmbH, of Germany, is a company of immoral people.
They not only betrayed me. They also have deprived their customers of an opportunity
to use my services and software. Which would save everyone lots of time,
and which would help quick learning.
I was a distribuor of Trinamic in years 2003-2007.
Needless to say that, if they betray once, they may betray every other time, and anyone.
If they betray me, they betray you as well, even if you do not use their products. That's because
they have used your tax payers' money from European Union to prop their business,
and eventually to pop mine.
They are selfish, greedy, and arrogant.
On this web page I describe how it happened. The story is not complete yet.
Time allowing, I will expand it with facts, and explanations.
At the end of this page you find a letter from Guido Gandolfo - a manager from Trinamic.
That's the only "explanation" I have from them.
The pretext for conflict was that in autumn of 2007 we had a petty argument with
Guido Gandolfo and Rajesh Kakde (some two managers). Guido got angry,
and terminated my distributorship.
Because I always work by word of honour, we had no papers between us.
So, he had no paper to "tear up". He felt free to simply write me a hysterical letter,
and in a childish fury to smash all the cups onto the floor.
They also blocked my profile on their support forum on the web.
I was the only distributor, who contributed (277 articles at the time).
I was the largest contributor by volume. And the 3rd largest contributor by the number of messages.
The only people who have written more messages than me are 2 people from Trinamic.
The rest wrote far less than the three of us. And those were questions rather than contributions.
By this unilateral action Trinamic has caused me a huge damage.
I have invested 4 years into development of market and solutions for their products.
I have invested 2 years into a development of my software named TMCM-DLL. I just finished it last autumn (September of 2007). Trinamic made the investment essentially lost immediately, even before the release. Trinamic still retains the free copy, which I gave them. They are still learning from it.
I have investigated and reported about 40 bugs and suggestions in TMC modules
and microchips. All free of charge.
About 30 more bugs remain not reported. Now I won't submit them.
So, you may figure out the not so good quality of their products, which will persist.
I have invested in support forum... As a good partner, I supported there customers,
who are not mine. They are either direct customers of Trinamic, or those of
other distributors, perhaps yours too. None of them was mine. I support my customers
privately, off the web.
So, contrary to what you might think, I was not remunerated for my effort
in any way. I just helped people, and partners.
It was rather other distributors, and Trinamic themselves, who have reaped
the rewards instead.
Now my account on the forum is blocked. I no longer have any control over my own articles. Trinamic has essentially hijacked them to their own advantage.
That's how ungrateful they are.
Because my profile on the forum is anonymous, users cannot contact me. They think I belong to Trinamic.
When users ask Trinamic about TMCM-DLL software, Trinamic tells them a lie
that TMCM-DLL is discontinued due to technical problems
.
How it can be discontinued, if it never even started?..
And if Trinamic still has a fully working copy... And Trinamic does not even own it...
And there are no technical problems to stop my software...
Trinamic could simply refer customers to me. But they lie instead.
They behave stupid not by ignorance... They do it by intent.
They want to damage me to the utmost.
I really do not know why. Because I did only good to them. - Never harm.
Seems like they want to prevent me from recovering even the costs of development.
Yet, when they had financial troubles back in year 2004, they have received a subsidy from European Union. Eventually the subsidy subsidized the destruction of my business.
They did ask for, and received help... Your help... Help from European Union.
But none of you would help me. Although I do not ask for free money,
like Trinamic did.
I provided you with real help. And I provide real services. You still want them free.
Even if so, why do not you ask Trinamic to bundle my software?..
Why not you ask your distributor to bundle my software? Ask them to pay me from their margin.
So, that you still have it, and my services, which come with it, free.
Too much trouble for you?.. You still go for the trouble of "reinventing the wheel",
doing without my software. But that's another story...
In principle, Trinamic (or any other manufacturer of hardware) should either bundle with its
products all software made by any third party, or sell each software separately,
including its own.
This would promote competition.
Unconditional bundling of their own software by manufacturer of hardware is acceptable
only, if nobody else makes any software.
In case of Trinamic at least two firms other than Trinamic make software for its devices.
One of them is me. I mean software for "general public", not very specific, or customized.
Trinamic is an immoral company. Anyone who knows now the facts,
and still helps them is immoral too.
This means that you may cooperate with them. But only if you must. You should make them
behave. Until then, please restrain from giving them anything free, to increase their popularity.
During this conflict I myself have told Trinamic several times, that I will help them to survive.
But I exclude any action in excess of that.
Below I quote a letter from Guido Gandolfo - one of managers of Trinamic. This is the only explanation I have from them. You may see for yourself that the letter does not explain any reason for their behaviour.
December 13, 2007Hi Andre
the use of our forum is fro free and nobody ever asked you for your participation. So I don`t know for wich reason you asked for money. You were treated as any other distributor, even without a distribution agreement. But you decided yourself not to be mentioned on the web for some reasons. I`m happy that we have no distribution agreement because with your last mail we had to terminate it.
We will make a turnover of about 5 million Euro next year and don~t have anz time to discuss silly arguments with you/
I think the best ist that everyone goes it`s own way and we will be save of such stupid mails.
I will inform Corinna that we stop the relationship and that we stop to deliver any products to you.
Please dont complain - this is duo to your behavior wich canot accept.
Regards, Guido
I will comment, that Guido Gandolfo is lying again.
They did actually invite me to the forum. Because they made me even their editor there.
- I was the only one otiside Trinamic to have this status.
I of course joined the Forum without any initial invitation. But this is not what we all have in mind,
don't we? We have in mind the reception by Trinamic - not the formality of sequence of events.
The sequence was as follows. I just noticed the Forum, saw that people are in trouble, and I joined to help.
I remained anonymous all the time. I did not spam, advertise, or ask for any payments.
Only after a year of participation I put some advertisement in my signatures, and in a couple of messages (out of 277 articles).
I put them only in proper topic. No spam.
Advertisement on the Forum was in agreement with Rajesh kakde, which I made, after I informed him and Guido Gandolfo
that Trinamic discriminates me compared to other distributors.
The satement that they did not discriminate me is one more lie. I was never listed on their web. They even invited competitors for me in my region. I did more for Trinamic than any other distributor. I treated them like no other distributor. They refused to do favours for me.
Hover your mouse pointer over Guido's letter... You will see my comments on other lies.
Trinamic now censors (holds for approval) all public messages (mind that now there are no messages that are not public). They do not allow anything that mentions me, or how to find me.
The notice of rejection of my posts is as follows:
The reported post has the only purpose to advertise for a website or another product.
This is a lie. I have posted messages of help.
Trinamic deleted them, because they contained my contacts. They simply want to prevent users from contacting me.
In some messages I do not specify how to help users, because this is my intellectual property, which I no longer entrust the Forum with. I would disclose the information only privately. I always write in what specifically it would help. ... Just contact me, and get the help. Is this advertisement? Then the whole Support Forum of Trinamic is an advertisement of themselves...
By the way, it is an agreement with Trinamic that I do advertize on their Forum, because I have no other representation on their site. We had this agreement in 2007. It is not even challenged... Not in a negotiation at least... So, it remains in force.
Consider this quote by Rajesh Kakde of Trinamic on October 23, 2007:
My suggestion is that you try to promote yourself through the forum for some more time,
if the response is very good then maybe we can work out something in the near future.
The "final solution" of the "near future" came in almost 2 month: on December 13,
Guido Gandolfo "discarded" me, and retained all my work on the forum, and off the forum. (See his ugly letter.)
One more quote by Rajesh Kakde on October 17, 2007:
As you said, its very important for both of us that you are officially listed on our
website & I am more than interested to do this.
This lie needs no comment. It was neither important for them, nor were they interested in anything.
However this is an indication to you - the reader - that the agreement to advertise on the Forum
was made more than willingly, by their own initiative. They made the suggestion not reluctantly,
not as a concession, not out of pity.
To advertise on the Forum he suggested after I informed him that I suspend my contributions to the Forum. I suspended participation, because I am not listed on Trinamic web.
One might think that censorship is a normal way of fending off spam.
No. It is not. Keep in mind that the Forum is editable. You can always remove a post, after you posted it.
Editors can remove posts of other people. The Forum automatically marks all unread posts.
They may always censor after a post is made public.
Trinamic chose to censor your posts before anyone gets a chance to read them.
That's because they want to control what you read. Not because they protect the Forum.
Keep in mind, that the Forum is full of garbage, useless exchanges, and alike. Its list of
members is teeming with pornographers, and other spammers. Trinamic never cleans this up.
They only clean up me, and only where I provide my contacts.
The Forum still retains 258 articles of mine.
Trinamic hijacked them. After they deleted my profile, none of the articles now indicates how to find me.
One lie by Trinamic leads to another, and to failure to serve users.
Consider this inquiry from our friend Thomas Linden:
http://www.trinamic.com/ttdg/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=1589
He asks on Trinamic Forum how to draw a circle (a "kreis" in German).
I posted a reply that my software TMCM-DLL already makes circles, and other shapes.
I offered to teach Thomas how to do it, free of charge.
Trinamic did not let my post through. They rejected it.
The user had no chance to read my reply. Instead Trinamic writes that this is impossible. But they offer to implement this by themselves in custom FirmWare.
How their post is different from mine? Both are "advertisements" of services. Mine is even better, because I offer an existing solution.
Trinamic offers to delay the solution, waste the user's time on specifications, and wait till they make something of uncertain quality.
They do not mention any pay. But I presume Trinamic would charge for their custom FirmWare.
This constitutes an unfair competition. A maker of a product, excludes from competition an alternative maker of solutions for their products. This reduces the choice for a user.
Later I tried to post another message. In it I wrote that my solution is readily available, and it may be free.
Trinamic again did not let it through. Instead, they posted a new message saying that a ready solution
is available from... another distributor. - Of course that is not me. And the statement, which
promotes another distributor, may not even be true.
I of course will recover some day... Will foster new partnerships... Maybe with your help...
Because I no longer have my distributorship, I cannot offer TMC microchips to my customers
at good prices. They would be forced to buy from Trinamic directly, in spite of the immoral
behaviour. They cannot switch to another manufacturer abruptly.
So, essentially Trinamic has taken over (hijacked) my customers, or has given them
to another distributor. They will profit from my past work. I won't.
Note: I wrote this text in spring of 2008. In July 2008 Trinamic restored my supply. So, I continue to sell their products, and remain their "de facto" distributor. But as you may see from the pack of lies above, Trinamic remains hostile to me, and to my criticism of them. I am not sure whether Trinamic decides to break the supply. ... And the above words would come true once again.
Both users, and distributors:
If you do not want to buy from me directly, then you may still bargain with your distributor.
Ask them to become my distributors. Then they could bundle my services with their's.
They have benefited from my work. They may agree to pay me.
If you buy directly from Trinamic, then please bargain with Trinamic.
I list my offer here.
In protest I ask everyone to post on your web sites a link to my web site.
I could post on my web site a link to you, if you want.
Trinamic censors out any link to me. You would multiply it.
Please also urge others to do that. - Especially distributors. For example, when you buy from a distributor, please ask them to link to me, at least till Trinamic stops the unfair treatment.
Please both users, and distributors complain to Trinamic, at this e-mail:
tmc_info@trinamic.com
Please demand that Trinamic respects users by respecting me.
Demand that they reverse their all bad decisions:
Free speech is not negotiable. Once Trinamic censors what they do not like, they stop at nothing. Users would be deprived of any critical information.
