Jack,
Lets see here...an accountant with a TR6. Doesn't make much sense.
Jack, are you really so blind you can't see that Charles is in [and
runs] his business for the same reason most of us are in the LBC hobby.
Doesn't make much sense, get it?
You might be a decent bean counter, but I can't see you as much of a TR
hobbyist after reading your comments about a man who has done more for
for the Triumph enthusiast than any other person since the cars went out
of production.
It is not always easy, but I will support him and his company because
he cares deeply about the preservation of TRs, as do most of us in the
hobby. His efforts have made our maintenance and restoration efforts
much less difficult and much more enjoyable.
Charles and TRF are what they are. Do business with them if you choose
and don't if the man or the company displeases you, but for God's sake
don't belittle the man for living his passion.
My $.02 & Happy New Year
Jim Davis
Fortson, GA
CF38690UO 75 TR6
CF37325U 75 TR6
"Radley, Jack" wrote:
>
> I have read the posts to this list and have the following observations about
> TRF from my perspective as a CPA / TR6 owner.
>
> My first experience with TRF came when a friend supplied me with numerous
> catalogs when I bought my TR6 in December 1998. I looked at them all with
> great interest but was shocked by the letter in the front of the TRF
> catalog. I see businesses that are in trouble all the time in my line of
> work, but never have I seen one appeal to its customer base like a minister
> at the pulpit. The approach Mr. Runyan uses is tacky at best. The last
> thing you want to do in business is expose a weakness. Mr. Runyan almost
> boasts about how bad a condition his company is in. If he quit telling us
> about his daughter's car, the dead chipmunk, and his cash flow problems, and
> instead instituted a plan to get the business back on track, we would all be
> better off.
>
> While I have done only a little business with TRF and have not had any
> problems dealing with them, I am dismayed by all the stories about
> back-orders, and shocked by the stories about unissued credits. The failure
> to issue credits borders on fraud. If these truly are the practices of TRF,
> no one should do business with them - they deserve to fold.
>
> It seems to me that Mr. Runyan is like a teenager in love. He just cannot
> see the reality of the situation. He needs to take a sober view of the
> situation and get things straightened out. He is his own boss, that is
> true, but he puts his business in the line of fire when he appeals to us for
> support in the front of his catalogs and then follows up with unethical
> business practices.
>
> Mr. Runyan's most recent publication, with the exception of the tear-jerking
> introduction is an excellent first step. At the same time, however, what in
> the world was he thinking when he accumulated some of that inventory? He
> needs to regroup and look at the basics like inventory levels, inventory
> turns, reorder points and reorder quantities.
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