Fail Companies

The industrial age brought more products to the consumer at a reasonable price, but thishad little change on high-end products. For example, high quality coilovers, speaker cables, bolt in intercooler setups, and various other specialty items are still worth a pretty penny. With new technology and advancements in production smaller companies are now able to make their own high quality products at a semi-reasonable price, but there’s a problem. They are smaller companies! Since they can’t afford to buy a batch of 300+ coilvers and carry spare parts in stock for warranty work the turn around time to buy or get your product worked on sky rockets. For example there have been cases of people waiting for their B&G coilovers to come back from warranty work for over a year and B&G’s current suspension line is back ordered by about 50 orders. These 50 orders aren’t even going to go out for another three weeks after this article is published and then it’ll take another week or two for those to get to the customer. Who knows how long these orders have been on back order too.

I use speaker cables and intercooler setups because as an example because there have been other companies that have made fine quality hand made home audio cables that will, hands down, beat the competition, such as Monster Cable, for a fraction of the price.  However the company had a back order of a month and then couldn’t keep up so they shut down production. The same went for intercooler setups. All these small companies are what I call fail companies. They have great ideas but can’t keep up with the demand and it’s in every industry. I’m not quite sure why they can’t keep up with demand but off the top of my head I can name eight companies that have failed that had great products but couldn’t deliver them steadily.

For whatever hobby you might be in or for whatever reason you are looking for something innovative, new, or just plain spiffy try to inform yourself about the company.  How long they have been around, how big they are etc.?  A company may have a lifetime warranty…. but are they going to be around for a lifetime?

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