3oaks wrote:
gemsworld wrote:
aguablanco wrote:
We are way too easy on the manufacturers and retailers, and until we quit accepting inferior workmanship they will continue with business as usual.
Exactly! I'm surprised how many posters in this forum keep making excuses for the inferior products churned out by the RV manufacturers. We'll never see quality go up until some foreign competition is introduced in the marketplace.
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At least some of us really understand the situation and the real issue.
I am sorry but this is just so much arm-chair quarterbacking.
I am willing to bet none of you have ever managed or run a manufacturing company, youve never had to foresee the market 5 years down the road,(and you'd better get it right) increase share-holder value, pay the rent and salaries, keep costs down ...there is only two ways to increase profitability...cut cost or raise prices..which are you going to choose in an ever increasingly competitive market?
I am sure none of you have paid workmens comp, 401K contributions et al. Made sure your plant remains a safe place to work.
Keep up with rising wage pressures. Approve new designs.
The problems of the RV manufacturers are not simplistic. They are the problems of being in an increasingly competitive industry, with one of the highest man hours to unit ratios (which equals high cost), an industry that has major hurdles of design to overcome to be able to use robotic assembly, an industry that has great pressure to put out new models every year, incrreasing costs, and a fickle and cheaop customer base that will walk away from your unit to one that costs $1000 less regardless of quality.
Now please tell me gentlemen how you are going to fix all of that and grow the company, pay the investors and stay competitive?
