Progressive Industries gets acquired (Glup)

Guess I better keep the one I have now and move it to my next camper.

NRALIFR wrote:
To get an idea of what the future may be like, look to the past. In 2014 Power Products acquired Blue Sea Systems, another company that had a very good reputation for quality products (no personal knowledge of their customer service).

What's Blue Sea's reputation today?

:):)

Not familiar with them. How about you answer your own question and tell us.

blangen wrote:
Hello, Folks at Power Products... are you listening? The reason you're spending money to buy Progressive Industries is because they're a great company with great products, customer service and lifetime warranty. If you mess with that formula, you'll have wasted your money by becoming just another junky product vendor. And, rest assured, we're watching.

Quoted you. Hit them with both barrels :C

Hello, Folks at Power Products... are you listening? The reason you're spending money to buy Progressive Industries is because they're a great company with great products, customer service and lifetime warranty. If you mess with that formula, you'll have wasted your money by becoming just another junky product vendor. And, rest assured, we're watching.

Darn! I just bought one to replace my old broken one(different brand). Really hope they don't go the route of so many other companies.

There goes the lifetime warranty.... :(

That's disappointing.

Seen this myself. It tends to come sooner than later, as the good engineers get the boot, manufacturing is sent to the bottom dollar ODM in China, customer service is pared to the bone, and the product just becomes a Harbor Freight or Alibaba rebrand from Shenzhen, bought for $5 bucks, sold for $100.

GordonThree wrote:
The real pain will come years down the road, after the merger is complete, after all the present engineers have been fired or driven off. After the bean counters from the new parent company get in there and cut all the corners that made the previous product great.

I could not agree more. I've seen and experienced this more than once myself.

The real pain will come years down the road, after the merger is complete, after all the present engineers have been fired or driven off. After the bean counters from the new parent company get in there and cut all the corners that made the previous product great.