Originally Posted by
george wilson
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I told them their planes were very expensive,and they could go to A2 and though it cost more,they would have no reject problems,and could harden MUCH MORE of their irons' length,as would be proper for longer life for the irons.
The guy told me they had tried A2 and their customers could not tell the difference. Yet,a few months after I was told that,they started using A2 !! THAT really put me off,since I had bought 6 or 7 LN planes that had the old,1" hardened irons in them.
I managed to get LN to send me a FEW A2 irons,but to tell the truth,I thought the fellow I spoke to was not very friendly. And,I felt I had been lied to,because that decision to go to A2 had to have already been planned a long time before that. You just don't make a move like that suddenly,sorry.
It may have been that higher up the management chain was a decision to 'embargo' the information until the release date.
This is standard business practice whether we like it or not.
My recollection of the biggest disaster in this realm was when Adam Osborne mentioned his computer company would soon be coming out with an IBM compatible computer. Sales of the current line dried up, the cash flow stopped and some say telling the market early about a change caused the company to go under.
Yes, it also ticks me off when something new comes along within days of being assured by some sales person the item of my purchase is not going to be replaced soon.
jtk
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