RF Going under?

News to me...

 

One can Only hope!!!!!!!

since 1999 RF has only been making Bastard Child products anyway.,

 

While perusing another forum, lookie what I found...

Ouch :blink:

BTW, "Twice" (twice.com) is an acronym for This Week In Consumer Electronics.

 

lol, Kicker Better be watching Closly........

with Kicker Annoucment to be in CC this Spring they are following down the Same Path as RF has done

large Retailers want 1 thing, HIGH PROFITS, at the COST of quality..

RF learned this lesson the Hard way

 

This weeks Best Buy ad shows that they now carry Alpine...

 

at some point in my life time the small "mom and pop" retailer will be no more. Most are alreayd out of biz. the Rest will soon follow

all that will be left is the Big Compaines that Could Care less.

and then shortly after that, all that will be Left is WAL_MART

we will have

WALMART home improvment
WALMART video store
WALMART gas station
WALMART fast food
WALMART Electronics Depot

Get the Picture.

and we will all work for WALMART, making $5.50 per hr...

Good Times are ahead

 

I think people are confusing MB Quart's receivership with RF having financial difficulties...
I'm a skeptic though, fundamentally.

I do agree with Kicker following RF's lead, though... I'm not particularly happy with it.
Mostly cosmetic observances (since I think Kicker's quality goes through most of their lines, even the Comp VR's are nice, and the Comps are decent for wimpy little speakers )...

RF went with "Toys R Us" cosmetics two years ago...
Kicker goes with "Toys R Us" cosmetics this year.

Maybe it's just me going "Ick"... I'm just not a fan.

but you are right -
Rockford Fosgate in Best Buy last year....
Kicker in Circuit City this year?


It seems like good advice to give anyone:
Don't stare at the ass of the guy in front of you, or people will give YOU a funny regard.

 

so who is MB Quart in dispute over the name with? With RF or MBQ? Yes, there is a MBQ brand in case someone did not know...

If RF still owns MB, then shall we expect german made RF speakers or U.S. (China?) made RF drivers? :blush:

 

ugh, neither RF or Kicker ever had any sense of aesthetics... They just switched from one tacky/ugly to another... Before though, they both were kinda purpose built/industrial ugly (like old MTX and Lanzar) and now bling bling/rice ugly... this really sucks...

 

I think everyone missed out on the most important news in this thread

Did no-one see what happened to South Park when they got a Walmart?????? :bag:

 

I stopped watching South Park after season one... or two...
Same stuff, over and over.
Just trying to be shocking to be shocking.

 

stopped watching south park !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you damn blue stater's

 

What can I say - I live close enough to Canada that people have told me they thought I WAS Canadian.

And you know how those guys feel about Canadians.

 

I'm not all that excited about seeing alpine go, and I am a little wary about seeing Kicker come in. DEI is also coming back to CC, Seems like to much flip flopping, not enough stability. I wish that CC would have kept alpine, and just picked up kicker and dropped audiobahn.

 

well as much as I hate them Big Box Retailers are going to take over completely


At some point, in the not too distant Future the small local shop will not be there any more.

It is sad, but sooo true...

then ofcourse shortly after that, Walmart will buy all of them

 

I don't agree... but I think small shops need to adapt.

Success is as simple as the answer to the question "Why would I want to go to a small shop, as opposed to a big chain store?"

One reason would be service... local shops that spit attitude with no gratitude are already on shaky ground.
On the other hand, a shop that goes out of the way to ensure the customer has an "above and beyond" shopping experience will stand out.

Another reason would be expertise, and general quality.
It's an easy one to take advantage of: Big chain stores are iknown by everyone to hire minimum wage flunkies, who are either too young, or too unqualified to get real jobs elsewhere, with very few exceptions.
Local shops that try to save a buck by hiring teenagers that just think "working at a car audio shop is cool" are already on shaky ground...
Local shops that hire true experts, that really can consult a customer to really identify their wants and needs - and can deliver exactly to their expectations - will easily win out over a big chain store that lets a newbie pick out their own components. Kudos to those that can discuss a customer's expectations with them, and then actually point out where they went wrong... using their skills to actually nail the system's weakness in such a way that the customer realizes the mistake.

Etc.

 

I disagree, as Service is meaningless today, no body cares about SERVICE, they care about PRICE

if service was important, no one would shop at walmart, yet walmart is the biggest retailer in the world

Even in the Corperate World Price is winning out over Service