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Re: [Amps] Russian tubes and QRO-Parts

To: "Glen Zook" <gzook@yahoo.com>, <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Russian tubes and QRO-Parts
From: "Bill VanAlstyne W5WVO" <w5wvo@cybermesa.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 02:35:41 -0000
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This is an all-too-common problem with small companies. They want a web 
presence, and they don't have a lot of money, so they take the lowest bid 
they can get to have "some guy" do it. They don't give a lot of deep thought 
to the fact that a website takes continuous maintenance, especially a retail 
website with constantly changing product offerings and inventory status.

Well, "the guy" who did the website disappears, gets a real day job, or 
whatever -- and the company can never get hold of him when they need him. 
More than likely, nobody in the company actually knows how to write advanced 
HTML code using today's high-level web design tools, which in any case they 
don't have. So they're stuck until... whenever.

It could even be that the original "some guy" website designer never gave 
anybody at the company the FTP login and password to access the source files 
on the server -- in which case, they couldn't update the site even if they 
knew how.

This exact thing happened to my daughter, a graduate interior designer, on 
her first website. It does happen. Obviously, I don't know that this is what 
is happening with THIS website, but... could be.

Anyway, my sympathies. Good luck.

Bill W5WVO


-----Original Message----- 
From: Glen Zook
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 00:15
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: [Amps] Russian tubes and QRO-Parts

It seems that there is a problem with the QRO-parts website information.  I 
ordered a pair of the GI-7bT tubes and they have not arrived.  So, I sent an 
E-Mail using that feature on the website.  The reply that I received says 
that even though the website says those tubes are in stock in Dallas, Texas, 
they are not and instead of the promised 3 to 5 days delivery time it is 
more like 2 to 4 weeks delivery time from Russia.  I did not inquire about 
any of the other products that are supposed to be in stock here in Texas. 
However, I do wonder if they are really in stock in the United States.

Also, I was informed that the U.S. "contact" person is on vacation and will 
not return until after 4 January 2011.  Again, there is no indication on the 
website of this.  I did recommend that the website be updated to tell the 
truth about the shipping point.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com



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