@Madockawando posted:I am not sure what you are saying here. Are you saying that MTH will no longer sell remotes that are in high demand because MTH won’t make money on them? People want them, people are begging for them, people are paying high $$$ for them on the secondary market but MTH won’t sell them because there is no business case for them? But you do believe that MTH “could” sell them?
John’s hit the nail on the head and what he is saying is easy to follow. One thread on OGR that solicited non binding commitments for what - 40 maybe 50? - remotes is nowhere near what would would be required to re-engineer and re-source a device that has hit obsolescence. A handful of overpriced used listings does not mean they are selling at those prices.
John is also 100% correct in that it CAN be done - these are simple devices of (now) old technology. There is no magic to making them if one is willing to spend the money to redesign the remote with currently-available components. Whether or not the cost of that effort can be justified is the question and the current MTH has said clearly that it isn’t as they see the world. That doesn’t mean the new DCS company will see it the same way, but the analysis will be he same: what is the cost of the redesign and can enough of them be sold to justify it?
It’s easy to sit on a forum and spend OPM. Given MTH is chopping itself into pieces, perhaps they would be agreeable to licensing the rights to make the remote to an OGR forum spinoff company? (tic)
