Tony, Yeah, armchair product management is fun! From a marketing standpoint, I think the message of "last chance for 18 months" might spur more sales then "last chance until sometime next year" message. It depends if the goal is to broaden audience (new customers) or get existing customers to "ladder up" to the next level of product. They clearly could use some grouping/filtering of frames on the website so perhaps "in stock," "pre-order," and "custom order" could be one of them (in addition to price bands).
Tom On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 10:18:42 AM UTC-4, Tony DeFilippo wrote: > > With a Tiawan-built Atlantis 'a little bit more' than an Appaloosa is > there a compelling reason to hold on to the Appaloosa in Riv's line up? If > they are trying to normalize their inventory for their own cash flow and to > always have frames on hand for interested buyers I could see them go > forward with a pattern of orders like; > > -Clem H's and L's - every order > -Rosco or Roadini project - one at a time, maybe skipping orders > -Cheviots, Sams, Atlantis - alternate orders > > Seems like there are 2 or 3 orders of frames per year from Taiwan and they > are always a large cash outlay. But if they settled into a predictable > pattern at least for the Chev-Sam-Atlantis core Tiawan frames a customer > could always either purchase off the shelf or sign up for the next > pre-order and have a known wait. I also wonder if bringing the Atlantis > back means the Sam could go back to sidepull/centerpull brake to skew more > road-ish (personally I see no downside to canti's). > > That leaves the AHH, Roadeo, Hunq and MUSA Atlantis frames in the realm of > the made to order timeline of course. Maybe the next Rosco/Roadini project > should be a Rosco-Hunq. > > Armchair bike business critique isn't as much fun as armchair bike > design/bike component critique... but I am happy to hear the Atlantis will > be available again soon. > > Tony > > -- 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.
