Slander,
I don't think you're wrong in believing that businesses selling a product should respect their customers. I mean, it goes without saying that such businesses cannot survive without customers (you don't need business school or a return thereto to know that
). In this case, however, I think you might benefit from taking a second look at the email exchange - this time from 30,000 ft.
Your initial email to nTek presumes a scam is afoot and demands proof otherwise. I interpret your email as combative. The combativeness becomes even more apparent when you consider that you presented the entirety of the dialogue (i.e., its starts off that way). I suspect that I'm not alone in having this interpretation. nTek responded to your inquiry by telling you that your email['s presumption] was unappreciated (after answering your question no less). nTek did not accuse you of
being anything (explicitly or implicitly), like you did with them; they simply asked you to shop elsewhere. Given that buyers can be scammers as much as sellers, they may have been more worried about your motivations than you were about theirs.
Consider this: had your question not been loaded with an accusatory undertone and had you gotten the same response, then your post would have been more interesting.
Maybe nTek should have ignored you, maybe not. Either way, the consensus seems to be that the initial question posed to nTek, not nTek's response, was the most problematic message in the exchange. In fact, in the other thread about nTek, many people have suggested that nTek has been more than willing to field many, many emails and calls. Not one person has reported a negative experience RE: communications. Why do those folks report a different experience than you?
Lastly, nobody is defending nTek as much as they are saying your experience is not useful information because it starts off on the wrong foot. In other words, its biased at its root and is not that compelling when compared to the other accounts.
Food for thought, and no hard feelings, btw - I'm just describing how I see the email exchange and am not making a judgments about you personally (I love to a chance to procrastinate
).