> bhinderks@xxxxxxxxx <bhinderks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> Your missing the point Sam. The suggestion that a user group could do
> what
> the factory couldn't has been proven far too many times to be
> falacious. To
> blindly assume that we "know better" than the manufacturer of a
> product
> that by and large sells for less than a couple thousand dollars is
> ludicrous. When you know and understand the costs associated with
> manufacturing AND marketing AND distributing that particluar product
> then
> your comments might be realistic. User groups generally have no
> understanding of that process for that particular product -- and no
> cars
> aren't the same as a camera. Are you prepared to PAY to work? That is
> what
> you are asking the manufacturer to do...........
>
Right Barry, anyone that doubts this could possibly start with a pilot project
of
making MD caps for <$10 a piece (which I believe is what they sold for when
still
available from Oly).
Wayne Harridge
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~w_harridge
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