I knew you were joking. Ed, W1PN On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Brian Lloyd <brian-wb6...@lloyd.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 18, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote: >> >> But there is another way to think about this. Yes, it may scare someone >>> off but I can't imagine it scaring off someone who really should buy a Flex >>> radio. If it scares a potential buyer, maybe you don't really want that >>> buyer. In my businesses it was always fewer than 10% of the customers who >>> caused 90% of the problems. In one case I even refunded one customer's money >>> and set them up with our competitor's product because that customer was >>> *killing* our support group. :-) The moral of this story is two-fold: >>> >> >> Uh Gerald -- please don't send me a gift certificate from Elecraft. >> Thanks. ;-) >> > > Well, seems that my comment above was construed negatively by some people. > They took the comment to imply: > > 1. that Elecraft is the company using the discussions on this list as a way > to "prove" that their products are better; > > 2. that somehow my comment should reflect negatively on Flex Radio, i.e. as > if it were somehow supported by Gerald and the rest of Flex Radio. > > I didn't think that there was any way that it could have been construed > that way but clearly it was. > > So, just to make things perfectly clear, my comment was intended as JOKE. > It was not intended to be taken seriously in any way. If anything, I was > poking fun at my own expense as I know that some of my comments have > required people at Flex to bite their tongues on occasion. > > 2. I happen to hold Elecraft in very high esteem. By choice I also have an > Elecraft transceiver and expect to get another. It was in no way intended as > a slight on Elecraft. > > <sigh> > > > -- > > 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL > Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
