Re: [Harp-L] B-Radical

[David Brown <nonidesign@xxxxxxxxx>]

Personally, I was really hoping he would succeed. Big game competitors
might have learned a few tricks from his products and improved their
products as well, For all we know, one of the large manufacturers are
already working on it.

I'm not speaking from an expert standpoint by any means, but a competitive
marketplace is almost always a good thing for everyone. Some learn from
their own failures and some learn from others' failures.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> > On Mar 12, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Edward J Hart <hooligan6a@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Vern, you don't have to be an engineer to produce a great harp.
> Trueâ..but it helps.
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> > Brad proved that. He produced a great harp.
> True againâbut he did not MASS-produce a great harp.  I speculate that
> each one required  too many expert man-hours and thus cost too much.  His
> failure to automate may have arisen from lack of  engineering skills.
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> > His business failed.
> Also true.  I speculate that his big mistake was going to market before
> perfecting and testing his processes. He bit off more than he could chew.
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> > It happens a few hundred times a day. Some people lost a couple hundred
> bucks. I have wasted that on a bad dinner. Haven't you?
> I didnât order a B-Rad.  However, I was very interested in any effort to
> start up a harmonica business.  I had done so myself and had made a very
> modest success of the Hands-Free-Chromatic.  I found the puffery and
> overstated claims of his advertising to be irritating.
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> > Edison failed many times before he produced a working light bulb.
> Yesâbut I donât think that he tried to sell them in large quantities until
> he had a viable process for producing them.
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> >  I hope Brad tries again.
> That would be very interesting.  We have certainly given him lots of
> advice about what to do differently next time.
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> > Stop beating a dead horse.
> I think that everybody is interested, partly because they kept it such a
> mystery.  It is partly disappointment.  Everyone wanted him to succeed.
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> Vern
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