Guys - off main topic(s), I know (and this is always part of thread life, lol!), but there is understandable confusion going on here...so my own thoughts I give :
Feliks is a very small, family-owned company. Too many orders will sink them. I can go into all the reasons for it, if anyone cares. I'd strongly suggest putting on Elise's price on par with its Asian rivals or higher. It's either that or expand production. The latter is far more difficult to execute effectively.
Unfortunately S, you are right - they are reaching a milestone whereby some extremely difficult decisions will have to be made fairly soon. Such is the dilemna faced, of course, by all similar-sized enterprises when contemplating future direction/expansion...and I do not envy them these decisions. (Perhaps a brave-hearted Venture Capitalist will throw them a (temporary?!) lifeline...but I wouldn't count on it, lol!
). Any mention of a further price hike at the moment would, I fear however, be
extremely hard to digest!!
The confusion factor comes from
your contact with Lukasz,
JV's contact with him, and
my own...viz below :
Interesting.
Lukasz told me they had (as a family) been making amps in small production mode, for a lot of years. And that the desire now, was to expand their reach beyond Poland, and the Eastern EU.
I wish them much luck.
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I can understand your take on their desires now, JV... actually NONE of us can really have the slightest clue as to their position - certainly from dear Lukasz's communications...
I personally have had
both sides of this scenario mentioned in 'mixed' message format. I suspect there will be conflicting views within the company, to say the least!
And so all we can do is wait to see how things develop over the rest of this year - or longer - and then see whose views triumph. Whatever, it will be very interesting to follow such developments. I can only hope that whichever course they take, they manage to continue to survive in a rather overcrowded market...
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Anyway, we ourselves move on...
Cheers everyone...and HAPPY LISTENING!