de-regulating rocketry questions - TAKE TWO

Fred, I'm under the bridge now. Strung a line down 'ere for the modem an' everything.

:)

-dave w

True, but what do you think should be done about it? What _can_ be done? (Jerry, don't bother butting into this. Letting you cert your illegally manufactured motors that can't legally be shipped is not a solution.)

Yes, I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. The D-E-F-G single use and reloads.

I"m sure he believes he's doing the best he can. I'm not sure that is objectively the case.

At the very least, information provided to distributors and vendors. The vendors I spoke with thought Aerotech was completely gone (post-fire). When I kind of 'forced' the issue, and they contacted their distributor, their distributor simply told them they "can't get" Aerotech products. If Aerotech provided information to past distributors/vendors as to WHEN they will have a fuller distribution, that alone would help solve the problem (at least a little bit). This type of information OUGHT to be readily available on their website, as well.

David Erbas-White

Microsoft has a monopoly. Are they bad too?

You know who IS bad? People that further the monopolistic conditions from professional or semi-professional positions.

Uh huh.

Jerry

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He doesn't give up till you give up first.

ROFL!

Then sit down and shut up..

Dave W. wrote:

Simply not true.

This is now well beyond error. It is malicious libel.

Jerry

No jerry, that's not what I said.

Wy don't you grow up and be a man.

So sue him, oh wait, you can't. you're a vexatious litigant.

still, you could post the $50,000 bond required by the court, and then sue him, but wait, that won't work either. If jerry were to post a bond with the courts, I would petition the judge to release it to Myself and the other "powertech" plaintiffs. That would almost cover the judgment, NOT including interest of course.

I don't know what I would do without you.

Jerry

wah wah wah

Because he has no balls?

David,

That is not my response at all, and some of your other comments are an oversimplification of reality.

I mentioned to you or someone else that until recently we have been deliberately low-key because we did not want to make promises we could not keep, especially given the single-use MR motor situation. However, nearly every wholesale customer who has placed orders for AeroTech product has been receiving shipments on a regular basis, and those shipments are increasing.

We are in the process of rebuilding our relationships with our dealers and distributors, and that process is going very well. This includes contacting our old accounts and letting them know we are ready to do business with them again. We are working with one of the major national distributors on a promotion of AeroTech products that will reach thousands of hobby dealers in the next few weeks. Other marketing plans are in the works, and I believe we will have some news to report in the next few months.

In the near future, we plan to resume advertising in the hobby trade publications. We will also be attending this year's NRHSA show in Las Vegas and the HobbyTown USA convention in Lincoln, NE. Gradually, this will result in the reintroduction of AeroTech product in larger numbers of retail stores and shops.

Gary

I'm very pleased to hear this, and I haven't been UNABLE to get product, but I've had to search for it.

My major point was that (in the trenches) the brick-and-mortar hobby shops who don't concentrate on rocketry products believe Aerotech is gone. I simply don't want those avenues to be closed off long-term because of short-term issues.

I understand that I've perhaps oversimplified the problem, but I'm presenting things as they appear to me, the end user.

On the plus side, I will (re-) state that Aerotech has been very helpful every single time I've contacted them directly -- and I'm pointing this out in the hopes of strengthening, not weakening, their presence in the marketplace.

David Erbas-White

He said, "Gary's apparent response"

Is it oversimplification to say you have been demanding ATF perrmits for what even YOU must now agree were exempt goods?

And do you admit that your efforts to "ATF-ize" "sport Rocket Motors" has now led to a rule change proposal by ATF to target said Sport Rocketry?

To conform to existing industry practice of course :)

What situation?

Congrats!

Which distributor?

Say hi to the local officials while you're there :)

Grand.