[TowerTalk] MFJ repairs

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

Ken,

 > Well, that's a time honored tradition in American startups.

They don't do it for 25 years <G>.  Start-ups generally succeed (as
in the case of Dell, HP, etc.) and move to normalized cost accounting
or they fail in a couple of years.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2014-09-01 3:11 PM, Ken wrote:
>
> On Sep 1, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, MFJ is not the only amateur manufacturer/vendor
>> guilty of that.  Too many "companies" are noting more than a single
>> person making one or two products in a garage/basement and under
>> valuing the cost of space, individual's time, etc.  There are even
>> "companies" for which amateur products are simply a sideline where
>> the "other" businesses bear all of the fixed cost/overhead which
>> results in an artificially low price for the amateur products.
>
>
> Well, that's a time honored tradition in American startups.  Dell
> started in his college dorm room.  Apple and HP in garages.  I
> remember when Dell was under investigation by the Texas Attorney
> General for failing to fulfill orders, talk about poor customer
> service!   :)    Of course, those companies learned from their
> mistakes, changed and succeeded.
>
> Ken WA8JXM
>