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Message: <blockquote data-quote="perterra" data-source="post: 3528408" data-attributes="member: 103709">There may be much in being good and honorable, but it dont put food on the table. It's hard to capitalize on your name recognition if you tell everybody your only contribution to the product was to write a PO for 2,000 units. This is all conjecture and assumptions from me, but I dont think the pool of optics users is growing proportionately to the pool of optics producers (be they manufacturers or marketers).  Could be even going down a little in a few years, so theres more producers fighting over a smaller slice of pie. What leads me to think this is so many of the people starting these optics companies were with optics companies and left for what ever reason, whether it was downsizing, tired of the rat race or just had a problem. But if things were going upward I dont think you would see so many ex-optics company employees starting their own companies.So if you are directing sales, and your slice of pie is getting smaller, you can convince yourself to be creative with your descriptions if it means you dont have to lay off employees. Especially when all of your competitors are already doing it. If you are a start up, you are just following the leads already in place. Because if your business collapses before you can get a marketable reputation, then everything was for naught. I dont think they are trying to be decpetive, they are trying to make a living and recover what they have invested.Maybe it's not right, but it's survival. By the way, Howdy Bill.if this sounds a little more rambling than my usually disjointed ramblings, promethazine with codeine will do it. damn flu</blockquote>

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