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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Alan Rosen who wrote (50859)3/21/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Cogito   of 58324
 
All -

For those of you who never get over to the SyQuest threads, I thought I should post this extract from one of my efforts there.

>>BTW, I was at J&R Computer World here in NYC this morning. I asked a salesman if they get a lot of returns on SparQ. He said that they do. He said, "SyQuest wants to catch up with Iomega, but they really blew it, because the SparQ drive isn't done right. They cut costs too much." I could see that three people were standing in front of the SparQ display thinking about buying. I asked the salesman if a lot of people were buying SparQ anyway. "Yes, a lot of people buy it. It's a good price. If it breaks, it doesn't matter because they just bring it back and get a new one."

If the return rate of SparQ is approaching 10%, as has been reported here, then that will be another drag on profits.<<

I've heard people in manufacturing say, "We can make the product fast, cheap and reliable. Pick any two."

- Allen
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