[Elecraft] M0XDF: Re: What difference?

[W2AGN]

Julian G4ILO wrote:
>>From the size of your reply, Steve, I presume you are attempting to
> win the argument the American way. :)

Sure glad you suffixed your Anti-American sentiment with the :)


> 
> I can't disagree with the points you raise. I just think that it is
> unreasonable to treat Elecraft the same way you would a faceless
> corporation or utility company. 

It is still a business, and should follow good business practices.

It is a a small company run by fellow
> hobbyists, other guys like us, who are not in it primarily for the
> money (since I am sure with their skills they could make far more
> making products for the commercial sector.) 

On what to you base the "not for the money?" I am sure if there was not a profit
motive, the company would never have been founded.

It's not as if anyone
> reading this reflector could exactly have been surprised, reading
> between the lines of what has been posted, that there was going to be
> another delay. So I agree with David: what difference would it make if
> the delay was made two weeks ago (when fewer of the variables
> contributing to it would have been known) or at the last minute?

Because those who have paid a deposit should be KEPT INFORMED. I thought that
was one of the purposes of this reflector

> 
> It's a sad fact of life that so many people feel once they pay money
> for something they have the right to immediately complain if things
> don't happen the way they hoped. (Actually, it happens even if they
> get something free, as in software, one reason I gave up developing my
> ham radio programs, but that's another matter.)

Yep, if you pay money for something, you expect to get what you paid for. (Maybe
that is just a American" outlook?)


This is a moot point since Wayne and Eric did, finally, answer the questions on
the delay, and appear to have instituted a policy of better communication.

-- 
John - W2AGN