Extremely thoughtful and generous of David - in the true spirit of BeoWorld. He could have just dumped it, but instead took the time to sit and start a thread in order to give it away for free to a BeoWorlder. Top man, thank you. Lee

As mentioned before, it wasn't a ploy to get Gold Members - it was just a way to get people to walk up to the bar and say "hi". It really doesn't matter what level of membership you have. I'd rather you stayed Bronze and became a regular on the forum than Gold and disappear! The nicest thing about this forum is the great people

Andy is of course correct, and i think it would be wrong to ban someone on the strength of selling manuals we never really owned in the first place. It must be morally wrong, because i felt a little cheated the first time i saw this happen - but it's not something i am going to get worked up over. I spend so much time keeping the site running well

Pinned for 7 days. Always feel a bit cheeky doing that! Lee

We have had this discussion 'behind closed doors' so to speak on the moderators forum.. There is actually one person on ebay selling manuals for individual products clearly stating he or she can get pretty much any manual required. This person is a Silver Member, and has never posted (surprise surprise) - and even has the cheek to steal BeoWorld

Just thought i'd bump this up to the top in case anyone missed it. I do not want to get to November and have people saying they really want to come to a BeoWorld Christmas Party and never saw the news article or thread! Lee

Big thanks to Anders for his beautiful and very generous prize. A great idea, and this was completely unprompted. Anders actually emailed me to ask if i didn't mind him doing this little competition, and of course i was delighted that a BeoWorld member had shown the enthusiasm and generosity to do such a thing! Martin - you're very lucky! I'd

jandyt: Every time I've been in your company Lee, I've ended up shouting for Huey down the big white telephone Andy T. Lightweight !!

It's got to be a story hasn't it, really... Lee

jandyt: Now, should I take my camera? Remember it can be turned against you if you get messy! Lee