[Elecraft] Elecraft Honchos!!!

[Don Rasmussen]

Some explanation - Jim, from my experiences.

I recently sold three K3/100's that I had pre-ordered
back in November.

I sold two of them over a period of three days to
prospective K3 buyers that had been on the fence, for
what money I had in them. The other one went at
auction and had 3 or 4 bids. 

I've offered use transceivers for sale that produced
twice the number of offers on the first day. !

Always remember - hams are cheap. 

Sure, you hear about the guys that pay $11K for a
radio but in general hams avoid retail like the
plague!!!

And when you can get a new IC718 for $550, well it's a
very tough game in the transceiver biz. 

Those that buy a K3 or a K(n) for that matter,
generally seem to know what they are getting and don't
mind to wait for theirs to be custom produced. 

They may in fact, prefer that. 

Cudos to Eric for his business sense. With hindsight
after having units on hand for immediate sale, he's
very much on the money. 

That should keep him here to support product for a
good long time. ;-)

[Elecraft] Elecraft Honchos!!!
JIM DAVIS nn6ee at astound.net 
Tue May 20 18:06:31 EDT 2008 

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I'm very interested in purchasing one of your NEW K3s
but what I have a hard time understanding is 
about the production "lag-time" (4mo. now?") If you
guys KNOW that you've got a winner then WHY 
NOT RAMP UP PRODUCTION now instead of having everybody
wait???  Also, if the staff that you have 
that visits the various "Ham-Conventions" and take
MORE orders then are'nt you guys compounding 
the work-order process even MORE???

Look! This is Ham-Radio and it's all about "instant
gratification" and you should know that as a 
businessman!!! Until you have your production
equalized more orders slow up production if you're 
not GEARED-UP TO HANDLE THEM!!!

73,

Jim/nn6ee