Apparently they replied to another thread entitled mike is an A$$hole, they didn't know about this thread apparently. I spoke with them today, and what what I got for months if not years they were actually selling there units at those prices individually rather than in bulk when they did in OEM. So they will no longer be selling their woofers online to the general public only through dealers and retail. I'm not happy about the changes but they did give a months notice, and they are actually going to put the rest of their surplus at the old prices through the weekend and even past Monday so if you are looking to buy some you'd have to ASAP. When thinking of the pricing think of eclipse back in the day, the titanium was around $700 and the pro near $1000. Also from talking to mike it appears that they wont be selling online anymore to protect the dealers from being undercut like what happened a while back(Soundsplinter ring a bell). So even though were all upset, put if my company was in the RED i'd make some drastic changes as well. The overhead on sending out a single woofer would be higher than sending out 1000 at one time, So in most cases they wouldn't even break even, they'd be losing money on each transaction
Thanks, we're excited about this, and its a lot more work than we expected. But no one "bought us out" so we'll maintain all the creative engineering and drive we have had for 20 years, and we'll bring out some stuff that has never before been in car audio. Our reference system is a 5-way //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gifGood luck with the new buisness strategy. Hope all goes well.
Most parts came from china as is and just assembled here.. So in essence you would get home audio from china anyways. To further add, as long as the QC standard is high and a china factory can produce a quality product (to the standards of TC and the QC agents) what does it matter were it is made?now you'll have home audio from china.
its the embarrasement of publically getting caught with their hand in the 3rd world cookie jar. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Thats all.Most parts came from china as is and just assembled here.. So in essence you would get home audio from china anyways. To further add, as long as the QC standard is high and a china factory can produce a quality product (to the standards of TC and the QC agents) what does it matter were it is made?
its the embarrasement of publically getting caught with their hand in the 3rd world cookie jar. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Thats all.
Actually, I could care less about TC sounds these days. Everyone knows whats up with their stuff and anyone who researches any of their products before purchasing them can find a long history of sour threads on the topic. So as long as the people that are looking at what their purchasing with an informed, intelliegent view on the product line, then thats all that matters.
Really, more power to them if they can stay alive. I just personally dont like Kyle in general because....well....its kyle. Need I say more ? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif
did you read any part of this thread?Tc Sounds, Marketing, Finance and sales make absolutly no sense. They back people that can't do anything for them. Try to raise prices to increase profits?? which makes no sense. what sense does that make?? The new line they try to do is audio pulse. they give no discounts to show vechiles. That's why companies like re audio, fi audio, and Sound splinter are going to raise to the occasion.