Hi folks.
I have slightly reworded a famous quote.
All it takes for dishonest manufacturers to flourish is for good customers to remain silent!
I concur with a lot of what has been said, CR guy needs to know he / his website will survive any fall out from the action of making his public.
It is somewhat drumming up business if you don't intend to publish!
Any company worth it's salt will have ongoing development, but this is usually around saving an ounce here or a penny there, when ongoing development results in a strengthened or redesigned item to prevent failure rates above the accepted percentage, whatever that may be for that particular item, then charging customers to replace that item after it fails is dishonest at best.
The main thing to keep in mind is that almost every item has an acceptable failure rate and your item may be one of those, just because you find ten people complaining of a failure with an item doesn't make it a design fault, how many of that item are in the wild? 10, 100, 1000, 10000?
What is an acceptable failure rate in a mass produced item? It may be as high as ten percent thought 1 percent or less is generally considered acceptable (unless I'm holding the broken one ;D). I would want to know failure rates before jumping on the bandwagon.
Cheers Graham.
I have slightly reworded a famous quote.
All it takes for dishonest manufacturers to flourish is for good customers to remain silent!
I concur with a lot of what has been said, CR guy needs to know he / his website will survive any fall out from the action of making his public.
It is somewhat drumming up business if you don't intend to publish!
Any company worth it's salt will have ongoing development, but this is usually around saving an ounce here or a penny there, when ongoing development results in a strengthened or redesigned item to prevent failure rates above the accepted percentage, whatever that may be for that particular item, then charging customers to replace that item after it fails is dishonest at best.
The main thing to keep in mind is that almost every item has an acceptable failure rate and your item may be one of those, just because you find ten people complaining of a failure with an item doesn't make it a design fault, how many of that item are in the wild? 10, 100, 1000, 10000?
What is an acceptable failure rate in a mass produced item? It may be as high as ten percent thought 1 percent or less is generally considered acceptable (unless I'm holding the broken one ;D). I would want to know failure rates before jumping on the bandwagon.
Cheers Graham.
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