[TenTec] RETen-Tec future

[Bernie Skoch]

Jerry,


I very much enjoy reading your posts to the list, but as a minor style point, it would be very helpful to me if you might break up your posts into paragraphs.  One big block of text is just hard for me to read.


Thanks.




Bernie



-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Stewart <ne4l at hughes.net>
To: tentec <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 18, 2017 12:47 am
Subject: [TenTec] RETen-Tec future

Please understand that the only reason I was mentioning selling the Delta II was I am literally running out of room in my shack. It would be silly of me to sell a used piece of gear to 'spite' the owner of c company who received no revenue from its sale in the first place.  I have a collection of PMs, Tritons, Argosies, the DII and an Orion along with a Titan amp and and tuners etc. If I gathered it all up, probably 40 pieces of Ten-Tec gear. Offering one piece is hardly an indication of me giving up on Ten-Tec.  As an engineer, I specified and purchased many thousands of dollars worth of plastic injection molds from Ten-Tec, an outgrowth of the relationships I had developed talking with staff on ham gear.  As far as tying up the phone line, in 40 years of hamming, I probably made about 5 calls to order parts, one to get a rig serviced and one less than 5 minute call to the service department, which fixed a small issue over the phone and for which advise I would have happily paid.  But this from Mr Dishop, who I spoke with briefly right after he bought the remains of TT at Dayton and he seemed nice enough in person is unprofessional.  I am not a troll but do know that they exist and enjoy pushing buttons (Quote from QRZ excerpt):"If not, then here is my answer to some of you posting nasty things here about me and making this personal. I don't need your crap. I don't need you to ever buy a Ten Tec. Is doesn't matter what you think. there are plenty of people who will buy the radios we make because they are good, because they are made right here in the USA and because they are supported and get fixed in a reasonable amount of time for a reasonable price if they do develop a problem. There are also plenty of people who understand the real world and what I am doing and why I have to do it. I get emails from them all the time off of the reflector telling me they support me and TEN TEC. You don't know anything. You aren't here. You aren't doing the job. I'm doing the job. It doesn't matter how I do it - I'm doing it. Ten Tec is open isn't it? You dumb asses just don't get it. It is ME or NOTHING. You don't get a choice. You don't like it just go away. I don't want you or need you as a customer. You are not worth it at any price for the aggravation you cause me. Let me tell you something - if you buy a one thousand dollar radio that costs me two thousand dollars to build once every ten years, just how important do you think you are? If I am not here your radios you bought twenty years ago that you expect to be fixed for free don't get fixed. If I am not here, EVERY PTO REBUID KIT and EVERY DIAL STRING KIT goes right in the trash. Every bit of documentation gets burned and every thing else gets bashed with a sledge hammer. Are we clear? This is not a democracy. You don't get a say. You vote with your dollar. So if you don't like it, throw your TEN TEC in the trash and go be a pain in Gerald's or Eric's ass instead of mine. I have news for you. They don't want you for a customer either, though they will never admit it. But then you don't hear the conversations behind the scenes when the ham fest door's are closed, do you?Yes, I am a business owner. I am also a MAN first, not a coward with a keyboard, and when you disrespect me I am going to tell you to step off. If you do it in person chances are I'm going to reach down your throat and pull your lungs out if you give me an excuse so please throw the first punch. I'm real easy to find. Come on over and lets have a nice little get together. If you want to make an attack, then make it! Draw, coward. Put up or shut up. That is my final answer.Have I offended some of you? Good. Get over it. Some of you are going to appreciate what I wrote. Maybe you will support a real fellow American patriot and ham enthusiast and vote for me with your dollar and buy a Ten Tec, Alpha or Dishtronix. Maybe you are sick of the cool aid everybody else tries to push on you. Maybe you want to deal with somebody honest who just tells you the truth. Maybe you want to deal with somebody just like you. I'm here and truly I appreciate your business now more than ever. I really do need your support. Thank you!I find the above self-contradicting, even if it wasn't directed at me, some who asked legitimate questions seemed to be thrown in the mix of those whose business he does not want.  He is TERRIBLE at communication and if you don't want rumors or stupidity being spread about your business, YOU have to be out front.  In other posts in the same thread, he gave some really good info about equipment purchases and development progress.  But after telling people to get lost in the above rant, he ends it with "Yes, I am a business owner. I am also a MAN first, not a coward with a keyboard, and when you disrespect me I am going to tell you to step off. If you do it in person chances are I'm going to reach down your throat and pull your lungs out if you give me an excuse so please throw the first punch. I'm real easy to find. Come on over and lets have a nice little get together. If you want to make an attack, then make it! Draw, coward. Put up or shut up. That is my final answer.Have I offended some of you? Good. Get over it. Some of you are going to appreciate what I wrote. Maybe you will support a real fellow American patriot and ham enthusiast and vote for me with your dollar and buy a Ten Tec, Alpha or Dishtronix. Maybe you are sick of the cool aid everybody else tries to push on you. Maybe you want to deal with somebody honest who just tells you the truth. Maybe you want to deal with somebody just like you. I'm here and truly I appreciate your business now more than ever. I really do need your support. Thank you!"  So which is it?  Does he want customers and their support or does he want to fight them?In other posts, he once again suggested people should pony up for 100 non-existent Eagles to kick-start the company or buy one of $4,000 microphones to help him build his business location.  Like I say, I liked him well enough in person but I have no interest in providing financing for a business at full retailI am not trying to be a critic or drag his company down.  I've been in business, it is not easy.  But try going to a restaurant where the kitchen staff is cussing the wait staff and the manager is ballistic.  If I don't walk out immediately, I sure as heck won't return.  He is calling people out to have a physical altercation and "pull your lungs out".  That is flat-out unstable and could possibly be prosecuted as a terroristic threat.  He needs to have a person to handle his communications, his talents are sorely lacking unless you enjoy the drama of the current political environment and perhaps consider this as entertainment. I just have to wonder if I do buy something and there is an issue, how unhinged is this guy going to get?  I don't have a need to deal with someone "just like me".  But I don't have a need to deal with someone that considers the above good business practice. Maybe if he gets some chill pills or production gets rolling enough, he can settle down and not worry about every sentence that is typed about Ten-Tec on the web.  I DO want him to make a success of Ten-Tec, REALLY, I do.  But I'm just not going to pay any attention any further until there is stock on the shelves, a means to look at it and someone to talk to that does not have an undue interest in inspecting my pulmonary system._______________________________________________TenTec mailing listTenTec at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec