I personally have no problems with price increases as costs are rising in my business as they are in all. I for one will pay more to Elecraft for the reason that they continue to support their radios with service and parts very important to me and a factor that weighted heavy on my buying decision as well as their support.
I am one of the early adopters that some talk about paying too much for a radio I want the radios when they first hit the market not lay around and nitpick about it for years till the price drops. I bought the FTDX-5000MP and pre-ordered it 5 mo in advance of its release here in the states mine was the second one delivered. I followed it closely in the Japan market and knew what it could do and it's ratings and it turned out to be the #1 rated radio in most all the receiver tests. I have not been disappointed in it so far. Recently I decided to try some Elecraft equipment starting with a loaded K2/100 then a W2 next came a high serial # K3/100 and a new P3 with SVGA most recently a new K3/100 loaded and 2m also. I decided against the Elecraft amp was not a fit for my station used my VL-1000 for a while with the K3's. Then bought a refurbished amp from Alpha a 87A with AlphaMax and a Palstar AT-Auto till there Alpha's tuner is delivered. My reasoning behind these radio purchases I have others also an IC-9100 in the mix but I wanted to own the #1 & 2 radios on the list and have found the Yaesu and the Elecraft to have distinct differences between them each having strong and weak points where one will outdo the other. I have found a fondness for the Elecrafts that has come on rather strong the last several months and comparing radios is really quite enjoyable. 73, Fred/N0AZZ -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary Gregory Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:23 PM To: David Gilbert Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fwd: Re: Price increase in mid Sept. *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 <xda...@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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- *Gary* *Start the day off slow, then taper off.........* ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
