Next time, ply him with booze first...
Again the question, what other CEO of the remaining big four, Leica, Nikon or Swarovski has come to this forum.
Even with vague answers this puts Zeiss ahead at 1 to 0.
I have one pair of Zeiss bino's, my others are Leica, Leupold, Nikon and Swaro and Weaver
None of the others have showed up so Zeiss is ahead.
This is interesting, but I buy based on my mission specs and whether the product meets my criteria.
Brock, have you been able to get the CEO of Nikon to tell you why they discontinued your beloved 8x32 porro's?
We have not had Swaro's CEO tell yet if they plan to upgrade the 7x42 Habichts.
From what I have heard many times the distributors and dealers are left out in the cold and told to just lump it by the big four.
I have not heard of a CEO even attending a large distributor/dealer meeting.
Art
Here you are wrong!!
Jan
All it or some of it?
CEO's should have more important things to do than interact with an online forum. Besides, if those were email responses you have no idea who penned them. I'm surprised such an empty "interview" was posted.Again the question, what other CEO of the remaining big four, Leica, Nikon or Swarovski has come to this forum.
Even with vague answers this puts Zeiss ahead at 1 to 0.
I have one pair of Zeiss bino's, my others are Leica, Leupold, Nikon and Swaro and Weaver
None of the others have showed up so Zeiss is ahead.
This is interesting, but I buy based on my mission specs and whether the product meets my criteria.
Brock, have you been able to get the CEO of Nikon to tell you why they discontinued your beloved 8x32 porro's?
We have not had Swaro's CEO tell yet if they plan to upgrade the 7x42 Habichts.
From what I have heard many times the distributors and dealers are left out in the cold and told to just lump it by the big four.
I have not heard of a CEO even attending a large distributor/dealer meeting.
Art
Again the question, what other CEO of the remaining big four, Leica, Nikon or Swarovski has come to this forum.
Even with vague answers this puts Zeiss ahead at 1 to 0.
I have one pair of Zeiss bino's, my others are Leica, Leupold, Nikon and Swaro and Weaver
None of the others have showed up so Zeiss is ahead.
This is interesting, but I buy based on my mission specs and whether the product meets my criteria.
Brock, have you been able to get the CEO of Nikon to tell you why they discontinued your beloved 8x32 porro's?
We have not had Swaro's CEO tell yet if they plan to upgrade the 7x42 Habichts.
From what I have heard many times the distributors and dealers are left out in the cold and told to just lump it by the big four.
I have not heard of a CEO even attending a large distributor/dealer meeting.
Art
... and thanks for your efforts on our behalf.
Best,
Mike
Good question
I've been told that we are just a little dealer in a tiny country so I can only speak for myself, but in my yearly dealer visits at the plants there is ALWAYS a CEO present.
Every year European sales reps (and the level above that) visit our store for a "social talk".
So if CEO's visit little dealers they will most certainly visit the bigger guys.
Jan
I do believe he is correct about forums though, management posting in forums is a minefield. That Jensen does it says more about him than about his job title. Most in his position wouldnt touch it with a 10 ft pole.
I wonder the real impact of no fault warranty on cost. I have read that insiders say in the world of fly rod no fault warranties the impact is around a million dollars a year for some of the larger makers. I know Orvis dropped it to 25 years and it sounds like others may be comtemplating following suit. It has been batted around that dropping the no fault on a $800 fly rod would drop $200 off the cost.
Back in the 1980's I bought a Winston Graphite Fly Rod from a local dealer on the Upper Delaware River and registered it (it had a Serial Number) with Winston, a Montana company. I think I paid $450.00 for it. 2 or 3 years later, after Winston was purchased and under new management, I got a letter from them offering a "Lifetime" guarantee covering any damage to it with payment of $50.00.
It was an eye opener. I had other rods repaired by other companies in the past and unless the repair was very simple I always paid a fee for it.
Bob
I wonder the real impact of no fault warranty on cost. I have read that insiders say in the world of fly rod no fault warranties the impact is around a million dollars a year for some of the larger makers. I know Orvis dropped it to 25 years and it sounds like others may be comtemplating following suit. It has been batted around that dropping the no fault on a $800 fly rod would drop $200 off the cost.
It's easy to measure the cost of having a no-fault warranty, but harder to measure the value of having satisfied customers.
HN
EtV
You would think so wouldn't you? But actually its not so simple.
How Zeiss has arrived at the quality that the Conquest line possesses at the retail price that it sells for, is not something Zeiss is going to explain in public so that the c,ompetition can do the same thing.
You wouldn't feed this information to your competitors and neither would I....
Lee
More like:
The big ship sails down the ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh
The big ship sails down the ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh
The big ship sails down the ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh
On the last day of September
Go to: http://www.rhymes.org.uk/a122-the-big-ship-sails.htm
And its nothing to do with this thread, but then again I have no idea what you are on about either Brock. Go back to bed.
Lee