[Elecraft] Fwd: Re: Price increase in mid Sept.

[Gary Gregory]

*Dave,

Agreed.

Pricing does get affected due to corporate structure. The sales division
more often than not has a bottom line dictated to them and sometimes this
takes away a lot of headroom.

Elecraft are tightly managed and pricing is carefully monitored no doubt as
well as manufacture costs.

I have not purchased based solely on the management of a company. Indeed
performance of the product was the most important. Reputation is the second
criteria I have used in my decision making process.

I have always taken note of customers writings but not to the point of
discarding a company from my own personal decision making process.

I guess the old saying 'to each their own' can be applied in liberal doses?

73
Gary
*
On 17 August 2012 13:00, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com> wrote:

>
> Actually, comparing any company with any other company that builds a
> similar product is perfectly valid.  How they may be structured should
> not be a consideration in your buying decision ... at least it isn't in
> mine.  I managed a large electronics business for many years and the
> last thing I expected my customers to judge me on was anything besides
> performance/quality/reliability/price/delivery/service/dependability.
> That's all that matters, and they're all visible to the customer.
> Elecraft manages that balance pretty well which is why I buy their
> products, but I can't see myself cutting them any slack simply because
> their competitors might have better leverage to supply me with what I want.
>
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
>
> On 8/16/2012 5:36 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:
> >
> > To compare Elecraft to say Kenwood, Icom and Yaesu is perhaps not a good
> > comparison. The corporate structure and governance of these companies is
> > totally different.
> >
> > Gary
>
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