Richard's hi-fi ranting 'Room 101'

[WikiBoy]

Gross salary, say 4k per month,- rent, heat, light, water, and rates, say 1k, - plant and equipment renewal and transport say 300pm,

Thats a total of £63k pa. / £180 = 350 units pa sold just to break even ! No chance !

That's more than one sale a day for every working day of the year without fail ! 2 a day shows a good profit. 1 a week is a horrendous loss.

There's no way that NVA is much more than an expensive hobby, but there's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't expect to operate to the same standards as a real manufacturer.

If it's a livelihood you're looking for, look elsewhere Chris, but I expect Richard knows all this.

This is not a company, I do not pay myself a salary.

My living is my business and I am very happy with it. I work when I want, I play when I want. I have no debts, I pay for everything upfront, I owe no one and no one owes me. I am sitting on about £20k of component stocks and suppliers are bending over backwards to supply me. I work from home (with all the relevent permissions). I roll out of bed when I want, I work until I don't want to. My other job is a pleasure I would do even if I paid for the privilege and pleasure to do it.

My life couldn't be better apart from I have to move into a bigger house as I need more storage in order to relaunch the Statement Range and Cube and Cubix loudspeaker designs. Also sometime this summer I will have re-register for VAT which is something I didn't want to do, but I am right on the limit now, that is a pain in the arse and will put 17.5% on the price straight away.

I am so fit to weather this recession it is perfect. WHY mainly because I don't have retailers paying me late, if at all. I have the right potential customers and the right price. Plus I don't care how many sales happen, I don't have to chase them, I don't have to market myself.

Lets see who is still with us when this recession has run its course. Not many I will be bound, a good process, and natural selection will take its course in this process and no amount of marketing, amateur or professional, will stop the grim reaper taking his toll.

[WikiBoy]

'Course he does. Didn't you know that Richard is a male stripper and provides much entertainment for the local nursing homes

Earns a fortune so he does!

Marco.

If someone would pay to see me take my clothes off they have a serious taste problem.

[WikiBoy]

Ding Ding!!!

Round, whatever!

Bring on the monkeys and exploding clown cars!... HONK HONK!

I say I say I say, my dog has no nose

Really how does he smell?

Like a hi-fi retailer / marketing mans armpit at the start of a recession

Feel the fear.

[enbee23]

You see wrong idea, wrong concept, a marketing mans view on the world. "Unless you grow you die" "Quantity before quality" - tesco tomatoes v the ones my wife grow in her greenhouse. Radio 3 is now a business, it should have stayed a service. I am not in the slightest bit interested in seeing my audience grow unless it is because they find their way *up* to it, DEFINITELY not by me lowering my standards to meet them. The lowest common denominator is always the province of the marketing man as he always wants more. It is why the world is in the state that it is in. What the hell is wrong with wanting less, if that less means more quality. Less people, less raping the planet, less polution, less politics, less marketing, more quality v quantity, more satisfaction, more understanding, more reality. Keep living your marketing mans dreams and delusions Ashley, in the end you just might rule the world and grow to encompass everything. Me I am happy with what I am given.

Excellent post, thank you. I like "quality-ist" too, superb

[Ashley James]

Richard - I think your argument is absurd as proved by Henry Ford in the desert in WWI. His model T's were just as reliable as Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts, at their peak, Ford were making nearly as many in a day as their entire production too.

The idea of small volume production meaning better quality is arrant nonsense, Human Beings make mistakes, computer based assembly systems don't and are far more accurate.

The British Watch and Clock Industry was put out of business by the Americans and the Swiss too, because they failed to adopt volume production techniques that lowered the price and improved performance and reliability.

Pride comes from doing a proper job at a proper price and having real customer satisfaction and a verging on zero failure rate!

I love and admire craft skills, I even consult to several small engineering companies restoring Rolls-Royce and other valuable cars, but this is the past and it's rewarding in its own way, however one thing that it teaches me is that modern methods and the latest technology are best.

[WikiBoy]

Richard - I think your argument is absurd as proved by Henry Ford in the desert in WWI. His model T's were just as reliable as Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts, at their peak, Ford were making nearly as many in a day as their entire production too.

The idea of small volume production meaning better quality is arrant nonsense, Human Beings make mistakes, computer based assembly systems don't and are far more accurate.

The British Watch and Clock Industry was put out of business by the Americans and the Swiss too, because they failed to adopt volume production techniques that lowered the price and improved performance and reliability.

Pride comes from doing a proper job at a proper price and having real customer satisfaction and a verging on zero failure rate!

I love and admire craft skills, I even consult to several small engineering companies restoring Rolls-Royce and other valuable cars, but this is the past and it's rewarding in its own way, however one thing that it teaches me is that modern methods and the latest technology are best.

I don't know why I bother it is a complete waste of time as you are just stuck in marketing speak. The Dinosaur who doesn't realise he is on the verge of extinction. The world is changing, you just haven't noticed yet. Everything is in place for the changes, Henry Ford and the USA in general has *had* its time. All it needs is the catalyst and it looks like it has arrived and appropriately on the back of and caused by US marketing speak in selling *concepts* and things that don't exist. Fundementals never change and bubbles always burst. The US housing sub prime market has pricked the bubble, the powers that be are fighting like mad to slow down its deflation. BUT like the Dutch kid with his finger in the Dyke the natural realm of reality will not be held back.

Who has caused it, fanancial markets marketing men, finding new delusions to foist on people. You are a dying breed Ashley start thinking of finding new skills. Growing real tomatoes in small quantity, that could be a way, enjoying them, and not looking for a way of marketing them into more sales, bigger profits, greater turnover, bigger marketing meetings and lunches, and more bullshit bullshit bullshit.

Bye bye dinosaur, I wish I could say it has been good talking to you.

[jcbrum]

Har Har Har, you mean like David Hembrow changing from a software person to a wicker basket maker, oh yeah sure, wotevvah, ammabovvered, lookamma faice, innitt !

When the chips are down about .0000001% can afford a £50 wicker basket, everyone else will buy a £2 polybin.

What modern hifi is about is excellent sound from downloads and cd's.

A Mac laptop and (good quality) digital active speakers is all you need.

Everything else is obsolete junk. (except TT's)

It's like when electronic calculators replaced slide rules, and I should think there's more demand world wide for gas-mantles than valve-amps.

[jcbrum]

Here's a free ad for you David.

Best wishes and good luck, we need all sorts, JC.

http://www.hembrow.eu/personal/eo.html

[WikiBoy]

Har Har Har, you mean like David Hembrow changing from a software person to a wicker basket maker, oh yeah sure, wotevvah, ammabovvered, lookamma faice, innitt !

When the chips are down about .0000001% can afford a £50 wicker basket, everyone else will buy a £2 polybin.

What modern hifi is about is excellent sound from downloads and cd's.

A Mac laptop and (good quality) digital active speakers is all you need.

Everything else is obsolete junk. (except TT's)

It's like when electronic calculators replaced slide rules, and I should think there's more demand world wide for gas-mantles than valve-amps.

Your talking bollocks per usual - the other half of the clown double act. NO RETAILERS - NO MARKETING MEN means better quality (cos you can afford to add extra) AND lower price.

Watch when Nokia and Apple etc go completely on line and cut all you hangers on out of your slurp. Prices will drop because of having to survive a recession.

[WikiBoy]

Here's a free ad for you David.

Best wishes and good luck, we need all sorts, JC.

http://www.hembrow.eu/personal/eo.html

Who is David? now you are even getting your threads mixed up - matches your muddled thinking perfectly.