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Re: ipro 2000 Any Word???

WARNING - ANOTHER VERBOSE POST BY EHG - WARNING
YES IT'S TRUE I'M KNOWN WORLDWIDE FOR SAYING IN 500 WORDS WHAT OTHERS CAN COMMUNICATE IN 50!! AND JUST FOR THE RECORD YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN WARNING AND IF YOU CONTINUE TO READ MY POSTS I WISH TO STATE CATEGORICALLY THAT I AM NOT PAYING FOR UPDATED PRESCRIPTION GLASSES FOR ANYONE

NOW BACK TO THE SUBJECT - Re: THE THREAD TITLE

WHAT BOTHERS ME MOST ABOUT NEOSAT BEING DOWN BOTH WITH IKS & A CARDLESS FIX IS THAT I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT THEIR DECISION MAKING PROCESS IS FLAWED!!

SEEMS TO ME THAT MANY OF THESE COMPANIES THAT DEAL IN FTA PRODUCTS BOTH ON A RETAIL BASIS (A CERTAIN SITE SPONSOR HERE) AND A MAJOR BRAND WHOSE PRODUCT IS OFTEN IDENTIFIED WITH JUST TWO LETTERS (CS) AREN'T HAPPY WHEN THEY MAKE AN OBVIOUS ERROR THAT IS DETRIMENTAL TO THEIR LONG TERM VIABILITY - RATHER THEN CHANGE BEHAVIOR THEY JUST DIG IN AND GET STUBBORN

I GUESS ANOTHER WAY OF PUTTING THIS IS:

THEY JUST DON'T SEEM TO BE HAPPY AFTER THEY ACCIDENTLY OR ON PURPOSE SHOOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT - NOPE NOT THESE GUYS RATHER THEN LISTEN AND LEARN WHILE THEY ARE HOPPING AROUND ON 1 FOOT THEY JUST LIFT THE DANG GUN UP A BIT AND GUT SHOOT THEMSELVES!!

PRIORITIES!! MOST DEFINITELY AN IMPROVED (HYBRID) IKS SYSTEM WITH MORE CHANNELS AND SATS AND SOME OF THE FEW REMAINING BUGS EXTERMINATED WILL BE NICE AS I SAID IN A FEW POSTS - I BELIEVE IN THE V2NEO TEAM AND IT DOES JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER AND BETTER - AND WE ARE ALL AWARE THAT UNLIKE A CERTAIN OTHER COMPETITOR THAT IS IKS DEPENDANT THE NEOSAT ALSO HAS A CARDLESS SOLUTION (USUALLY) - THEREFORE I THINK IT CAN BE SAID WITH SOME CERTAINTY THAT IF MANY IF NOT ALL OF THE MAJOR BRAND NAME COMPETITORS WERE ABLE TO COME OUT WITH A CARDLESS FIX FOR THE 3/27 ECM WITHIN A DAY OR TWO OF IT'S OCCURANCE (WITH THE NOT SURPRISING EXCEPTION OF THE norw team)- V2 ALSO HAS THE ABILITY TO HAVE RAPIDLY PUT TOGETHER A TEMP CARDLESS ONLY SOLUTION TO THE LAST ECM.

THEREFORE ONE MUST ASSUME THAT V2 HAS APPARENTLY DECIDED TO UTILIZE ALL HIS TIME AND EFFORT ON THE NEW HYBRID IKS SOLUTION AND BY DOING SO IS ALIENATING MORE EXISTING USERS OF THE NEOSAT PRODUCT AND MANY MANY MORE POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS THEN I THINK HE REALIZES -

IT IS DEFINITELY NOT A WISE DECISION TO HAVE THE NEOSAT BRAND DOWN WHILE MOST OTHERS ARE UP - SO WHAT ARE THE TWO MAJOR BRAND NAMES OF FTA RECEIVERS THAT ARE NOW DOWN WITH MANY UNHAPPY HOBBYISTS - hmmmmm I guess that would be COOLSAT AND NEOSAT --- IMHO --- THOSE TWO NAMES SHOULD NEVER I REPEAT NEVER BE ASSOCIATED IN ANYWAY WHATSOEVER - ESPECIALLY AS NON-FUNCTIONING RECEIVERS WHILE MOST OTHERS ARE UP!! LIKE I SAID BEFORE DOESN'T SUPRISE ME ANYMORE TO SEE COOLSAT GUT SHOOT THEMSELVES WITH A 357 MAGNUM - JUST HOPING THAT V2 DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING BIGGER THEN A BB GUN!

V2 DEDICATING HIMSELF TO THE HYBRID IKS SYSTEM AT THE MOMENT IS AN ASSUMPTION ON MY PART BASED ON LITTLE OR NO ACTUAL INFORMATION - HECK FOR ALL I KNOW IT COULD BE THAT THE NORW TEAM KIDNAPPED V2 AND ARE HOLDING HIM UNTIL HE REVEALS SECRET STUFF -

ONCE UPON A TIME LONG LONG AGO I WAS A MANUFACTURER OF ACE (ADVANCED CONSUMER ELECTRONICS) PRODUCTS - WITH PLANTS IN BOTH THE USA and MEXICO (YES ONCE UPON A TIME THE USA DID ACTUALLY MANUFACTURE STUFF WITHIN IT'S OWN BORDERS). FTA PRODUCTS FALL INTO THE ADVANCED COMSUMER ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY THAT BY IT'S VERY NATURE RAPIDLY CHANGES. I CAN STATE WITH A KNOWLEDGE THAT I WISH I DIDN'T HAVE THAT IT DOESN'T TAKE BUT A VERY ERRORS IN JUDGEMENT TO GO FROM A RAPIDLY EXPANDING VERY PROFITABLE COMPANY TO ONE THAT IS HEMORRHAGING SO MANY DOLLARS THAT THEY CAN'T EVEN AFFORD ENOUGH RED INK TO FILL OUT THE BALANCE SHEETS.

V2 AND NEOSATUSA - DON'T REALLY KNOW IF YOU WILL EVER READ THIS POST - PERHAPS SOMEONE HERE WHO IS IN THE KNOW MIGHT PASS IT ALONG - IF YOU LEARN JUST ONE THING OUT OF THIS VERY VERBOSE POSTING IT SHOULD BE--DON'T EVER AND I DO MEAN EVER TAKE YOUR CUSTOMERS AND POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS FOR GRANTED!! CAUSE YOU WILL RUE THE DAY THAT YOU DID! - EVEN IF YOU HAVE A PRODUCT THAT IS NOT ONLY COMPETITIVELY PRICED BUT SUPERIOR TO YOUR COMPETITORS, BECAUSE THAT ALONE WILL NOT SUFFICE - NEOSAT / V2 - LOOK HARD AT COOLSAT - YOU KNOW THE FTA MARKET - HOW MANY SALES (THOUSANDS PERHAPS TENS OF THOUSANDS) DO YOU THINK COOLSAT HAS LOST OVER THE LAST 8 MONTHS TO A YEAR AS THEY HAVE ALL BUT DESTROYED THEIR REPUTATION AS A COMPANY BECAUSE THEY CAN'T OR WON'T PROVIDE TIMELY SUPPORT FOR THEIR RECEIVERS AND HAVE ARBITRARILY CHANGED THE TIME FRAME ON THEIR WARRANTY ON CERTAIN BOXES BECAUSE OF CLONING ISSUES FOR WHICH THE OWNERS OF THEIR GENUINE PRODUCTS CERTAINLY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR.

MOST DEFINITELY IF THE NEOSATS ARE UP AND RUNNING AGAIN WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME FRAME - IT WON'T PUT YOU INTO THE COOLSAT CATEGORY FOR THEY HAVE HAD MONTHS AND MONTHS OF PRACTICE AT ALIENATING THEIR CUSTOMER BASE, BUT YOU ARE HURTING YOURSELF - DON'T THINK OTHERWISE!!

Just some free advice learned the hardway. When it comes to advice all I can say is one should never dismiss it without contemplating it. Easy enough to decide if any or all of it could be of value - if one decides that advice is not germain to one's own situation it's easy to just shrug one's shoulders and forget it. As humans we have an enormous amount of RAM between our ears so mere contemplation of the knowledge of others based on their experiences won't clog much of it up

Having said all that I'm going to be mighty pissed if NEOSAT is not around as a viable company a year or two from now!! As for CS - personally I think they are raising that dang 357 and going for a straight shot between the eyes - if they are here a year or so from now using that brand name - I'll be mighty surprised!!
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