[TenTec] Ten Tec Support Allocation of Overhead

[Reed Krenn]

Actually, we live in a constitutional republic, not a "Democracy", and
freedom of speech only applies to interactions with government. You should
have NO expectations of FOS with regard to private interactions.

Reed / WW3A

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 2:42 PM, terry foskey via TenTec <
tentec at contesting.com> wrote:

> Dennis,The folks that get on here and trash Ten Tec service and rates open
> themselves up for criticism.  If they can't take the criticism then don't
> post these incredibly narrow sighted and uninformed comments. Nothing was
> ever free - ten years ago, 30 years ago or 100 years ago.  Customer service
> charged to overhead was never free, someone paid.  Today with the handouts
> we have in this country, everyone thinks "stuff" should be free.  Again,
> Nothing is free, someone is always picking up the tab.  I gave a quite
> brilliant disortation on one of the Yahoo Group sites not long ago about
> Business economics, free market and managerial accounting functions.  Part
> of that discussion dealt with unit cost and overhead.  Here is a refresher
> - The only ways to fund overhead is from customer charges or profit.
> Manfacturing and Large Service Businesses don't last if they fund overhead
> from profit, therefore, each dollar a customer spends has a portion which
> funds the OH pool.  Manufacturing allocation of overhead is a component of
> the total unit cost.  Service overhead is a component of labor rate.  Since
> we still live in a Democracy with freedom of speech, I recommend you don't
> get on here talking business principles when you don't know what you are
> talking about.  Stay on the technical merits of the radio or operating
> principles for which this blog is meant and you won't receive my
> criticism.  There are other radio brands and blogs elsewhere.
> Terry,N5TF
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