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JERRY2KONE · **No offense taken. -** 01.24.2009, 07:37 PM

No offense taken at all. I agree with you Sir. Businesses fail for a reason, and more likely than not it is because they are lacking in some way to do what we expect them to do as professionals just as you so elequently stated. Laziness is the key along with complacency that comes over time of just squeesing by, putting forth the minimum of effort into what you do for a living hoping that it will be enough. That is the problem with a lot of American thinking these days. I love our country, but there is just way too much of just that going on and we are letting things slip through our fingers to other countries like Mexico, Korea, and China.

If a hobby shop has to close its doors it is because it chose the wrong location up front, and because they failed to supply the local /economy with what they need due to not paying attention or asking enough questions of its customers. Look at MonsterMike here. He listens to the requests that pile up in here and he comes up with a solution for us with custom one off hybrid stuff. That is pure business sense of wanting to please your customer base and support whatever it is that they want &/or need. UE started out that way, but forgot the main reason they got into the business in the first place. Retail sales, customer service has to be number one or you are going to loose out, and your business is going to fail. Being nice is just not enough in todays society. Give the people what they want or pack up shop and go home.

There was a really good program on AFN TV last night that revealed a lot of information about why the automakers and oil companies conspired in keeping battery and electric car technology down in the USA, and it was all for the sale of oil, and keeping us dependant on both the oil, and the repair parts from the auto makers. It all mades perfect sense to me after seeing what they did an how they did it. Now we are trailing everyone else as a nation, because they got greedy and tried to keep it all for themselves thinking that they could hold inevibility back like a tsunami rolling through. I am a realist, and I believe that you get back what you put into it.

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JERRY2KONE JERRY2KONE SUPERMAXX Offline Posts: 3,452 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: HAYMARKET VIRGINIA	No offense taken. - 01.24.2009, 07:37 PM No offense taken at all. I agree with you Sir. Businesses fail for a reason, and more likely than not it is because they are lacking in some way to do what we expect them to do as professionals just as you so elequently stated. Laziness is the key along with complacency that comes over time of just squeesing by, putting forth the minimum of effort into what you do for a living hoping that it will be enough. That is the problem with a lot of American thinking these days. I love our country, but there is just way too much of just that going on and we are letting things slip through our fingers to other countries like Mexico, Korea, and China. If a hobby shop has to close its doors it is because it chose the wrong location up front, and because they failed to supply the local /economy with what they need due to not paying attention or asking enough questions of its customers. Look at MonsterMike here. He listens to the requests that pile up in here and he comes up with a solution for us with custom one off hybrid stuff. That is pure business sense of wanting to please your customer base and support whatever it is that they want &/or need. UE started out that way, but forgot the main reason they got into the business in the first place. Retail sales, customer service has to be number one or you are going to loose out, and your business is going to fail. Being nice is just not enough in todays society. Give the people what they want or pack up shop and go home. There was a really good program on AFN TV last night that revealed a lot of information about why the automakers and oil companies conspired in keeping battery and electric car technology down in the USA, and it was all for the sale of oil, and keeping us dependant on both the oil, and the repair parts from the auto makers. It all mades perfect sense to me after seeing what they did an how they did it. Now we are trailing everyone else as a nation, because they got greedy and tried to keep it all for themselves thinking that they could hold inevibility back like a tsunami rolling through. I am a realist, and I believe that you get back what you put into it. SUPERMAXX YOUR LIFE.