>From all the exciting stuff coming out I think Rivendell is doing fine. The pre-sale method is not unique to Rivendell, and is really a brilliant way to manage cash flow. Even better is Acorn's "pay with order" but what's workable on $100 items would be a stretch for a $2,000 item.
Business runs on cash flow & inventory turns. Retail is tough. You've got to have stuff to sell but you don't want 6 months supply of Schwalbe tires in 3 sizes & 4 models. It's a balancing act, trying to figure out what sells & how fast. Good example is 2 Atlantis frames. Mine is sn 519 & my wife's is 488. When I ordered my 58, there was a few week lead time as they had a batch in progress. So mine was sold before they got it. From the sn, my wife's 47 was built prior. When we bought her bike from a previous owner, it looked brand new, and was a Riv standard build. So that small frame may have languished in inventory for quite while before the original owner bought it. Months? Years? Inventory is dead money until shipped. dougP On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 11:44:19 PM UTC-8, Lungimsam wrote: > > They need to tackle the lightweight skinny tubed low trail bike genre. > That would expand their customer base. > Riv makes the most beautiful bikes on earth. > They need to bring the most beautiful skinny tubed low trail one to market. > Add to their customer base and still keep their lugged principles. > > This whole business (which is none of my business) of tig welding and the > recent slew of fundraising offers is making me wonder what is going on. I'd > hate to think they are making last ditch attempts to keep the business > running. I know they have done fundraising before but this is getting > frequent with all the pre-sales lately. > > I hope they are doing ok. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
