Very Disappointed with New Keystone Alpine

goducks10 wrote:

dapperdan wrote:
"The industry as a whole could start by:

1) Adopting an industry-wide building code.
2) Geting off the pay-per-piece wages that allow the crews to build the day's quota as fast as they can, then leave. Meaning, if they can build the X units for the day's quota in 5 hours, they go home. If the mfr wants X units, make the crews build them in a normal 8 hour shift.
3) Adopting a more auto-industry-like dealer network that forces dealers to take a FIFO approach to service, no matter where a unit was bought.
4) Ramping up their parts departments so dealers don't wait weeks and months for parts and have them often not be the =right= parts when they finally get there.
5) Pay the dealers for warranty service in a timely manner and a =fair= price.

Notice, I never said anything about LCI products, as that's a completely different issue.

Lylle"

This is a GREAT idea but we as consumers just keep buying sub-par constructed units in record numbers so this most likely will never happen. :(

Dan

Americans love their WalMarts, Targets and anywhere else that sells low priced stuff.

Same with RV's. They want a low priced RV because most don't use them for more than 20 nights a year. They may start out gung ho but after 3-4 years it's sitting in storage doing nothing. I'm sure most use them just barely enough to justify the low payment for 10-15 years.
Most would never buy a high quality RV for way more than they're paying now. I know I wouldn't drop $60-70K for a 5er that I only use 40-50 nights a year.
And you'll never see the quota system go away. No RV MFG is going to pay their workers more money thinking they'll get better quality from Marty meth head, because the MFG down the street is going to still use the quota to pump out cheaper units to sell more faster.
The RV industry is stuck in a time warp and can't afford to get out of it.