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The_Dunedan · 08-16-2010, 08:17 AM

GodDAMMIT people! If you're going to invent a 105% Kickass product, spend a year-plus developing it, and advertise it all over God's creation...FOR FUCK'S SAKE STICK TO YOUR DELIVERY DATES!

Yes, Kel-Tec, I'm talking to you assholes! Y'all make an awesome product, and I sell the living shit outta everything you send me...but every time you come up with something new it takes 3X longer than projected to actually -get- the thing! And it's not like it's an accident or something!

You premier the RFB at SHOT 2007. Kickass, a .308 bullpup that takes cheap-as-shit FAL magazines and lets you slap a reeeeeeally long barrel on the sucker. Run slow powders and 200-grain-plus bullets, and you're getting .300WM performance out of a .308! Awesome! And it'll be available September of 2007 you say? Kickass!

So it's 9/07, and you tell us it'll be available in December. Meanwhile I have people wanting to pay me $4,000+ for one.

So 12/07 rolls around, and you tell us it'll -actually- be released in 3/08, so you can more heavily market it at SHOT 2008. OK, that sucks, but I can live with it.

3/08 gets here, and you tell us that it's -really- coming out in 8/08, to make sure the marketing's had a chance to fully penetrate. Asshole, the penetration is accomplished! Your advertising has penetrated my market so completely that jerkoffs I don't even -know- are coming in here offering me 2x MSRP for this thing!

8/08 comes, and you inform us that you'll -probably- release it for sale sometime around 3/09, to make sure you can advertise it better at SHOT 2009. Meanwhile, the people who -were- offering me thousands of dollars over MSRP a short few months ago are now wondering if this weapon even -exists-, and have bought something else instead.

So now it's 3/09, the first RFB finally shows up nearly two years late, after months of horseshit and chain-jerking and you jackholes admitting that you're delaying introduction of a -HUGELY- desired product for marketing reasons. And do you know what the -result- of that was, you short-sighted morons? NOBODY WANTS THEM ANYMORE. Everybody figures that the reason for the delay is that the thing's a turd. And the sad part is, it's -actually- a completely kickass rifle! However, it's a kickass rifle that neither I nor anybody else can -give- away, because some drunken monkey down in Marketing has you convinced that a marketing strategy which convinces everyone your product is worthless is a GOOD thing!

And now you've done the same thing to us with the PMR-30 pistol, only now you've made it WORSE! You've not only dithered around with "Phantom Gun Syndrome" for months now, you've apparently decided to only distribute these weapons to complete broke-dick do-nothing shops in Possum Hollar, Missourri! These guys do NOTHING! They sell NOTHING! I know this because they have fewer feedbacks on GunBroker than I rack up in a busy week! And yet somehow they have this weapon before any of my distributors, wholesalers, or industry contacts? Puh-leeze. You guys make a great product, and your engineering is really top-shelf stuff, but for fuck's sake quit screwing the dealers! You're never going to get a Gov't contract, so quit chasing that rainbow and remember that it's the DEALERS who make you your money, the DEALERS who support your company, and it's the DEALERS who keep you in business. WE are YOUR customers, and we'd like to be able to stay that way!

08-16-2010, 08:17 AM	#80 (permalink)
The_Dunedan Junkie	GodDAMMIT people! If you're going to invent a 105% Kickass product, spend a year-plus developing it, and advertise it all over God's creation...FOR FUCK'S SAKE STICK TO YOUR DELIVERY DATES! Yes, Kel-Tec, I'm talking to you assholes! Y'all make an awesome product, and I sell the living shit outta everything you send me...but every time you come up with something new it takes 3X longer than projected to actually -get- the thing! And it's not like it's an accident or something! You premier the RFB at SHOT 2007. Kickass, a .308 bullpup that takes cheap-as-shit FAL magazines and lets you slap a reeeeeeally long barrel on the sucker. Run slow powders and 200-grain-plus bullets, and you're getting .300WM performance out of a .308! Awesome! And it'll be available September of 2007 you say? Kickass! So it's 9/07, and you tell us it'll be available in December. Meanwhile I have people wanting to pay me $4,000+ for one. So 12/07 rolls around, and you tell us it'll -actually- be released in 3/08, so you can more heavily market it at SHOT 2008. OK, that sucks, but I can live with it. 3/08 gets here, and you tell us that it's -really- coming out in 8/08, to make sure the marketing's had a chance to fully penetrate. Asshole, the penetration is accomplished! Your advertising has penetrated my market so completely that jerkoffs I don't even -know- are coming in here offering me 2x MSRP for this thing! 8/08 comes, and you inform us that you'll -probably- release it for sale sometime around 3/09, to make sure you can advertise it better at SHOT 2009. Meanwhile, the people who -were- offering me thousands of dollars over MSRP a short few months ago are now wondering if this weapon even -exists-, and have bought something else instead. So now it's 3/09, the first RFB finally shows up nearly two years late, after months of horseshit and chain-jerking and you jackholes admitting that you're delaying introduction of a -HUGELY- desired product for marketing reasons. And do you know what the -result- of that was, you short-sighted morons? NOBODY WANTS THEM ANYMORE. Everybody figures that the reason for the delay is that the thing's a turd. And the sad part is, it's -actually- a completely kickass rifle! However, it's a kickass rifle that neither I nor anybody else can -give- away, because some drunken monkey down in Marketing has you convinced that a marketing strategy which convinces everyone your product is worthless is a GOOD thing! And now you've done the same thing to us with the PMR-30 pistol, only now you've made it WORSE! You've not only dithered around with "Phantom Gun Syndrome" for months now, you've apparently decided to only distribute these weapons to complete broke-dick do-nothing shops in Possum Hollar, Missourri! These guys do NOTHING! They sell NOTHING! I know this because they have fewer feedbacks on GunBroker than I rack up in a busy week! And yet somehow they have this weapon before any of my distributors, wholesalers, or industry contacts? Puh-leeze. You guys make a great product, and your engineering is really top-shelf stuff, but for fuck's sake quit screwing the dealers! You're never going to get a Gov't contract, so quit chasing that rainbow and remember that it's the DEALERS who make you your money, the DEALERS who support your company, and it's the DEALERS who keep you in business. WE are YOUR customers, and we'd like to be able to stay that way!