What happened to the SkyWave?
 

"Telstar Electronics" wrote in message
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On Apr 25, 7:42 pm, "Yo Mamma" wrote:
SkyWave 2879ABTC - RF Linear Amplifier
STATUS - Discontinued April 2007
http://www.telstar-electronics.com/d...uctsupport.htm
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
Gee, ya think sales could be the reason? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

Actually, the reason is simple... poor profit margin.

www.telstar-electronics.com

or maybe a product that didn't exist for sale?
Wasn't it only a few weeks ago we were all being asked to say what we wanted
a speech processor to do.

Why re-invent products that are already on the market and much better? Try
being a re-seller instead and get some advice on how to run a company.

What happened to the SkyWave?
 

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:44:48 -0400, wrote:

+++
+++ Gee, ya think sales could be the reason? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
+++
+++Actually, the reason is simple... poor profit margin.
+++
+++www.telstar-electronics.com
+++
+++Poor profit margin? That term is useful when a product fails to
+++make a profit even after volumous sales.
+++
+++Since when have you ever sold enough volume to claim poor
+++profit margin?
+++
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Actually you can h ave poor profit margin even with small sales. With
low volume sales the average selling prive needs to be increased s uch
that a desired profit can be made. The problem come sinwhen the
market can't bare the desired average selloing price to make a
reasonable profit. Thus poor profit margin. Most likely his latest
adaptation did not sell enough, cost became to high and he was selling
the amp far more than what the market could bare. Therefore any price
decrease would yield poor profit margins unless sales increase
remarkably.

james
+++The real reason is the Telstar focus group took the day off when
+++it came time to determine the demand for the finished product.
+++
+++It's time to fire the entire marketing department, purchasing
+++department, manufacturing department, and engineering
+++department and go back to delivering newspapers.

What happened to the SkyWave?
 

On 26 Apr 2007 17:10:00 -0700, Telstar Electronics
wrote:

+++On Apr 26, 6:58 pm, Vinnie S. wrote:
+++ Are you ****ing kidding? Damn, I don't even have anything against you, but even
+++ that is a really lame excuse.
+++
+++
+++The components were very expensive for that amplifier... we used
+++nothing but premium electrical and chassis components... to say
+++nothing of the finest grade FR4 pc board material. That stuff doesn't
+++come cheap! That amplifier was also very labor intensive to build.
+++Just wasn't worth all the trouble to offer a unit of that high
+++quality.
+++
+++
+++http://www.telstar-electronics.com/d...cialOffers.htm
+++
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Even in small quantities, 10 boards, you can get a PCB of 40 square
inches in the $16 per board range. That is 2 layer FR4 0.062 thick.
That includes silkscreen and solder mask. That is with 5 day delivery.
10 day delivery will be about $2 per board less. IF you do about 5000
boars you should be around $6 per board. You can have a Chinese house
do it for about $4 per board in 5K quantity .

james