[Elecraft] RE: not about technical issues (was Shipping StatusPage)

[Stan Rife]

	It's just been confirmed. G4ILO was hired by Yaesu and Icom to
create bad publicity for Elecraft. The big 3 just can't fade the heat.

Stan Rife
W5EWA
Houston, TX
K2 S/N 4216


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Julian G4ILO
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:17 AM
To: elecraft
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] RE: not about technical issues (was Shipping
StatusPage)


On 07/12/2007, R. Kevin Stover <rkstover at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Absolutely!
>
> The whining level around here is starting to get a little 
> embarrassing. Some on the reflector sound like a bunch of third grade 
> girls who've just found out recess is canceled.
>
> I'm still trying to figure out why people who paid VOLUNTARY deposits 
> or were in "the first run", or second run, didn't pay deposits, etc, 
> etc, etc, Ad nauseam, are entitled to a unit by unit run down of 
> radios going out the door.
>
> I've also noticed that the most vocal production and inventory 
> "specialists" aren't in any hurry to cancel their orders. What's the 
> word I'm looking for...........? Never mind it would probably get me 
> booted off the list.
>
> A sign of the times we live in I suppose.
>

The intemperate attitude of some people around here is starting to get a bit
irritating.

Believe me, there are a lot more people who are unhappy about being kept
waiting than you would know from this reflector. And some of the language
used in expressing this dissatisfaction privately is sometimes a lot more
blunt than has been used here, too. So let's have less of the insults,
please.

I'm sure Elecraft *is* doing the best it can to fulfil the outstanding
orders. Unfortunately the best it can do seems to be falling a little short
of what was promised. Two estimates of when my own order would ship have
come and gone and now it looks like I'll have to ask for it to be postponed
until the new year so that I will be here to receive it. And you wonder why
*I* am frustrated?

People are not cancelling their orders because they still want this radio,
the reports of those lucky few who have received them are good, and because
having waited this long it would be stupid to bail out now when there
appears to be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Even though the
glimmer seems to be getting closer with appalling slowness.

As Dave W7AQK said, venting is one way of relieving the frustration of
waiting. It's human nature. These shipping discussions are only going to be
replaced by technical ones when more people have actual K3s to discuss and
fewer people are kicking their heels waiting for them. You'll just have to
get used to it.
-- 
Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392  K3 s/n: ???
G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com
Zerobeat Ham Forums: www.zerobeat.net/smf


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