Hi Dale and Dan;
I can't stand it, I had to say something. I was a dealer and now
manufacturer. We are in a low volume industry. We sometimes deal in
specialized special order parts that can take up to 11 months to receive. I
just received some Stainless steel U-bolts and saddles. They are USA made
and very high quality. The stainless screw clamps took nine months. We order
in over 1000 units to obtain good prices.Alcoa bought out Reynolds about a
year ago. Guess what? price went up, quantities to order went up and
delivery times went real slow.
Question? How many dealers and manufacturers either sold or failed. More
than I can think of.
I sell direct or through dealers. Dealers are better because I have to work
to sell my products and the dealers like Joel and Steve take the load off
of manufacturers. There are more problems including EPA and local gov. to
contend with. Shipping large items is a nightmare.
Joel, Steve and many others spend countless hours talking to their
customers, usually on their nickel. They made a sale and then assist their
customers with problems. Sometimes the phone bills take a lot of the gross
profit.
Please do not jump on someone until you have walked in their shoes. It is
not to me, proper to air your complaints on tower talk, but instead use the
I-net or LL and talk to the person in charge. None of us intend to hurt our
customers, but sometimes things get FUBAR.
Sorry if I offended anyone. I feel better now,
Bill Wall KC4UZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [TowerTalk] RE: [Tower Talk] Tri-Ex
>
> > Dan,
> >
> > If you had ever sold things to hams, you would <not> even have to ask
that
> > question....
> >
> > 73, Drew
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, d wrote:
> >
> > > I have a better suggestion. Why
> > doesn't Will-Burt
> > > do dirwect advertising to the Amateur Radio community
> > > and leave First Call (Joel) out of it completely?
> > > DAN, WA2NDP
> >
>
> Gawd! You don't even need to really sell things to hams....try running
the
> hourly and door prize raffle at any hamfest or convention. You CANNOT, it
> is IMPOSSIBLE, to produce a set of instructions which will clearly and
> definitively instruct people which ticket to hold and which ticket to
place
> into the hopper. And the situation is compounded when you have two or
three
> different colored tickets, people will still place the red (or blue, or
> yellow, etc.) ticket in the green (or yellow or blue, etc.) ticket hopper,
> etc. Amazing. Simply amazing.
>
> I can't even guess what a dealer must have to go through. <shiver>
>
> 73,
> dale, kg5u
>
>
>
>
>
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