MMM availibility date dropped! - RC-Monster Forums

DrKnow65 · 03.16.2008, 10:29 AM

So who's got the flame emotocon? just a post of flames across the bottom would be expected about now...

jhautz · 03.16.2008, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Sammus

yep.

I wasn't gonna bring it up again.

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Originally Posted by E-Revonut

Last week my lhs was asking me about my Novak HV setup because they want to have something to offer people until the MMM comes out, which the owner heard might not be until August! :-(

At this point I woudn't believe that if they told me. They have completely lost all credibility in my mind.

CC really needs to figure out how to manage a project. I would have lost my job LONG ago if i had all these dates come and go on a high profile project and still had nothing delivered.

ssspconcepts · 03.17.2008, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jhautz

I wasn't gonna bring it up again.

At this point I woudn't believe that if they told me. They have completely lost all credibility in my mind.

CC really needs to figure out how to manage a project. I would have lost my job LONG ago if i had all these dates come and go on a high profile project and still had nothing delivered.

I could not agree with you more...and further, I don't buy the story that "we are dealing with issues that are outside our control." If you ask me that's the problem...they are not trying to control the situation. My lord...the $$$ is there (for the time being)...MM proved that. They need to $hit can the weak link in the process and move on. Industry enthusiasts will pay the difference.

I don't remember what Batman character said it but the words I remember vividly: "this city needs an enema!" Maybe it was Penguin. At any rate this economy needs an enema. Customer service these days is crap and it needs a wake up call. I remember in the late eighties and early nineties the common slogan was "whatever it takes" to keep a customer. That ideology was a result of some seriously hard times...c'mon folks (Castle) wake up! Do you really want to go back to that? Or do you want to be the omni present industry leader and be the "last man standing" when the dust settles in the aftermath (in case you ain't checked...the market is lookin very 1980's)?

lincpimp · 03.17.2008, 10:45 PM

Wow, people certainly get passionate about this stuff. I am sure that CC is doing their best, they know that everyday that they do not have a product available for sale they loose potential sales.

The constant setbacks do appear to be annoying, but it certainly keeps us talking about it! There is no such thing as bad publicity, right?!

cart213 · 03.17.2008, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ssspconcepts

I don't remember what Batman character said it but the words I remember vividly: "this city needs an enema!"

It was the Joker.

ssspconcepts · 03.17.2008, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by cart213

It was the Joker.

Thanks. I knew we had some Batman fans here.

jhautz · 11:55 PM

All I'm saying is take control of the situation instead of letting the situation control them.

Trust me I deal with overseas suppliers on a daily basis as well and they can be difficult to deal with at best. Its like you are their mercy to just believe what they tell you because you have no way of telling what is accurate and what is not. CC need to park somebody from their organization in the conference room of the offending supplier and have them start digging into every nook and cranny of the "problem" they are having. You would be amazed at what having somebody's nose up their butt on a daily basis does for their motivation to "SOLVE THE PROBLEM"

I know the proposition of spending multiple weeks in some small Chinese town while "helping" them figure it out does not sound very appealing, but sooner or later somebody has to just jump on the grenade and GET IT DONE.

lutach · 03.18.2008, 12:04 AM

I had a Schulze 18.97 burn up on me, but I have a 32.55K, 2 18.61K, 2 11.20 and the 40.160 and guess what, if you go the Schulze's site you will see a ton of new controllers coming out and most of which are HV (up to 14S lipos). Castle has a good market not only here in the US, but in other countries and Castle needs to come out with ESC that will match what Schulze is doing. How can Schulze and other Euro companies make controllers that can work with all the R/C sector and Castle can't? The 40.160 is almost $800 (I don't know why, maybe software) and if folks find it in stock, they'll buy it. Castle please come out with the goodies, who cares about plastic casing.