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here comes the tools now
OK I've been bitching about the lamps from Korea, China, and Mexico for
the last 10 years. Then I was seeing finished panels with hundreds of pieces for under $99 showing up at the mall. Well now you won't believe what I just saw. Comfort grip style stick cutters, with the colored plastic handles. Ready for this....... at the .99 cent store! One of those stores that you see in your neighborhood or strip mall with all the household products, electrical, shampoo, etc. Yes the Toyo type cutters we've seen selling for about $30 bucks, for .99 cents each. The only drawback is that so far all I see are the wide heads. Can't tell if they are carbide or steel wheels, but I can tell you that they cut just great! Another dagger for the American retailers. -- "I'm not pompous and agrogant, I'm SNARKY" JK Sinrod Sinrod Stained Glass Studios www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories |
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i have spent the day dealing with a) a woman who thought when i said 750,
she thought i meant $7.50. b) a woman saying her neighbor had just taken a class and could make her a front door like 'that' . c) is this glass??? dunh... d) gee, how do you do this (got an hour or two?). and e) a kid grabbing an apprentice's music box, tearing off an angel's wing and when presented to the father/ son their denial even tho CLOSELY observed ! You know, if the tools are half as good and a quarter the price, i think i may have to 'adapt' and buy, and BTW the day i sell my **** on EBAY is the day i have adapted AND died Brady boy! I have SEEN your stupid boats in WAL -MART for 12$!!!! Does that make you proud? either you let them steal your designs, or they ripped them off, or you hired them to re-create them. How exactly does that fit into your adapt or die crap!!! my high -end customers have not wavered and as for the ones that see price , not quality as the deciding factor, well YOU can have'em ( but i think China will have you bowing to them soon! how the heck are you gonna guarantee that crap you are peddling???) !. **** your stupid little catch phrase, let's see how you handle the law suits for crappy workmanship! They don't have to deal with guarantees in CHINA or Mexico! How's Canada stand on selling faulty goods? m Glassman" wrote in message ... OK I've been bitching about the lamps from Korea, China, and Mexico for the last 10 years. Then I was seeing finished panels with hundreds of pieces for under $99 showing up at the mall. Well now you won't believe what I just saw. Comfort grip style stick cutters, with the colored plastic handles. Ready for this....... at the .99 cent store! One of those stores that you see in your neighborhood or strip mall with all the household products, electrical, shampoo, etc. Yes the Toyo type cutters we've seen selling for about $30 bucks, for .99 cents each. The only drawback is that so far all I see are the wide heads. Can't tell if they are carbide or steel wheels, but I can tell you that they cut just great! Another dagger for the American retailers. -- "I'm not pompous and agrogant, I'm SNARKY" JK Sinrod Sinrod Stained Glass Studios www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories |
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The Chinese knocked off my designs and distribute them everywhere at
prices too low to even consider trying to compete directly. So.....I focus instead on making and selling higher end higher quality model ships. They're still selling well. http://www.debrady.com/limited%20edi...-side-view.jpg At one time, we did production runs of stained glass lampshades - but stopped when the cheap imports started. Instead of snivelling and whining about the competition, I just move onto something different. I can come up with fresh ideas faster than they can copy the old ones. We now have a great selling line of fused glass suncatchers and are developing a line of cast glass products. By the time the importers steal those ideas, we'll have made our profit and moved onto something else. I don't need more ideas - I need more time to implement them. The cheap imports are powerful incentives to force improvement and innovation - and an equally effective way to cull the herd. Adapt or die. |
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While you complain about low cost imports, DeBrady Glass will be
constantly introducing new products to compete. While you harp about the "basement bandits", Victorian Art Glass will be supplying those new aspiring artisans - and Glass Campus will be teaching them how to build and expand their businesses. There's still room available in a couple of the classes at Vegas. http://www.glasscraftexpo.com/ or, maybe you'd prefer to attend online? http://www.glasscampus.com Adapt or die! |
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i am just adapting! Actually, i'm just sick of hearing that jerk spouting
his 'catch phrase' which means exactly nothing to any real artisan out there. We all know we need to constantly create new ideas so our old customers can have excuses to buy more stuff from us (unless our workmanship is so bad they would never consider a repeat purchase...)! Besides, Darwin came up with the idea long before he did! and tho HE might argue the point, plagiarism is NOT a form of flattery! He's not even creative enough to come up with an original 'catch phrase'! m "Moonraker" wrote in message .. . |
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"Moonraker" wrote in message .. . "Glassman" wrote in message ... OK I've been bitching about the lamps from Korea, China, and Mexico for Is this the one you are talking about? http://www.mcgillswarehouse.com/Item...emID=110140004 They also have the pistol grip and the brass handled ones. Similar but it's 5 times the one I saw for .99 cents. It doesn't say if the wheel is carbide? -- "I'm not pompous and arrogant, I'm SNARKY" JK Sinrod Sinrod Stained Glass Studios www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories |
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wrote in message oups.com... While you complain about low cost imports, DeBrady Glass will be constantly introducing new products to compete. While you harp about the "basement bandits", Victorian Art Glass will be supplying those new aspiring artisans - and Glass Campus will be teaching them how to build and expand their businesses. Dennis I need to ask you again why you keep up this defensive and adversarial attitude? Your business is in no way shape or form like what we are doing. You are much closer to the Chinese than the rest of us. As far as I can tell, we are all pretty happy and successful selling higher priced products in the good old US of A. Why must you keep lecturing to a group, that needs no advice about how to sell our products? Your clients are not ours. How many boats do you need to sell to make as much as I do on a $2000 commission? I'm happy selling my one window, instead of 300 suncatchers. Listen up.... each and every one of us can do what you are doing. Hire cheap labor and mass produce a simple product, sell them at a profit, and when they are copied cheaper, come up with another one. Been there... done that. I used to mass produce cut tiffany lamp kits for Worden designs, crosses, ethnic specialties, holiday suncatchers, so many more. I sold directly to department stores and mail order catologs. We now create beautiful stuff for much bigger bucks. Sure we bitch about some things going on in the business world, so what? That's human nature. It's not what you do to make a living Dennis, it's your superior attitude and constant preaching that drives us crazy. Just be a member of the SG community, and not tell us that you are the king of it because you can adapt. -- "I'm not pompous and arrogant, I'm SNARKY" JK Sinrod Sinrod Stained Glass Studios www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories |
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" Dennis I need to ask you again why you keep up this defensive and
adversarial attitude? Your business is in no way shape or form like what we are doing." Why do you assume you and your compadres are the only readers here? Why do you assume everyone other than me does glass the way you do? I teach Entrepreneurial Management. At the University Masters level, at Las Vegas GlassCraft Expo, in our studio, at Victorian GlassFest, online at Glass Campus......and on bulletin boards to anyone wishing to learn. I have a very, very long list of people that email me to thank me for my internet postings. I don't care....let's repeat that....I DO NOT CARE what you or your antagonistic friends want or like. I'm here to teach people how to create a business enterprise making and selling glass art. I'm even doing free public lectures at Vegas - specifically about how to do that. You and your buds can bitch, whine, and snivel....about Chinese imports, about "basement bandits", or about opinions you disagree with. I DO NOT CARE. I don't post here for you and your bitch buddies, but for others that are sincerely interested in becoming professional glass artisans. If you don't like what I have to say, ignore it. It's not posted for you. |
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"Dennis, thank you for your response. I learn something new and of
great value almost every time you post. Donna" Here's an example from another board of the kind of response I get for the advice you find so offensive. |
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