[TenTec] TenTec Digest, Vol 157, Issue 5

[Amateur Radio WB8NUT]

That rate is very high.

If you pay your bench techs $40 an hour, then add burdened labor rate of 50% on to that, it is $60 an hour. Then add another 50% for overhead and profit, you arrive at $80. So that is some massive profit percentage being charged to a customer.

Now many customers like me in the past paid more for their radio from TenTec because of the former legendary service and support. Now that support and service is going to be very costly, why do I want to pay more for the radio? So if service pricing is going up dramatically, then the cost of the radios needs to come down to be more competitive with the Japanese brands. 

At this point, we are no longer dealing with the old TenTec. What was TenTec is largely gone. We have someone who owns the name, and designs, but other than that, TenTec is pretty much starting from scratch so it is really going to be a new company.

JMHO

Duffy
www.wb8nut.com

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> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 09:35:10 -0600
> From: Dalton <w4wuq at att.net>
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> Subject: Re: [TenTec] TEN-TEC Announcement January 4, 2016
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> I agree, seems high.  Even higher if tax is added on top of that.  Maybe we all need to revert back to the days of the Heathkit SB series equipment.  For the most part those can be repaired at home.  None of these surface mount components in them.  They had room to get around circuits.
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> 73,
> Dalton - W4WUQ 
> w4wuq at arrl.net
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>> On Jan 4, 2016, at 8:46 PM, Jim Vohland <n9vo at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sounds like reasonable repair policy except for one thing.  Don't most repair facilities charge a "repair estimate" fee but only if you don't have unit repaired. 265 minimum plus shipping just seems a bit high.  But guess I could be out of touch. 
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>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:30 AM, John Henry <jshenry1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Regarding the inputs from 73, Jim K9YC
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>> I believe you said it better than I ever could.
>> People that don't run a business with overhead forget all of the ancillary
>> costs of just doing business itself. Let alone whether that business is
>> repairing cars or manufacturing and repairing transceivers.
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>> Thanks for your inputs,
>> 73, KI4JPL
>> John Henry
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