Originally Posted by
avole
Berlinonaut, while I may or may not agreet with some of your posts, I think the groups section, while by no means incorrect, could be redefined a little, as follows:
- group one: hard headed business men/accountants who have seen this sort of thing before and judge the owner to be naive, has no clue about financial reality let alone manufacturing. The project is doomed, but the fire sale could be interesting.
- group two: speculators who believes the owner is naive but, assuming the bike appears, is worth mounting a takeover bid when the Helix becomes reality as the selling price will kill the company. They plan on buying the company, moving the production to Taiwan, and selling the bike at a more realistic price under their own brand name.
- group three: enthusiasts who know little about exconomics; aren't interested whether the project is viable or not nor marketing strategy, but, most importantly, believe. This goup comprises people who post here, the cycling enthusiasts.
Written with tongue in cheek, by the way, and a touch sadly, having worked with companies in all three groups, the best of which was the third.
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Well, I just clustered the opinions whereas you additionally judge on the profession, the knowlege and the attitude of the people that have that opinion. I would call this highly speculative and not dare to do that. And in opposite to you I do not judge on the people. Plus you miss out the people that were crying out loud that the whole thing is fake and a scam. I.e. I definitively doubt that group one consists of "hard headed business men/accountants", neither exclusively nor to a relevant degree. I'd rather say seems mainly to consist of people with a strong, very vocal opinion. In the end we're on the internet - nobody know's who's a dog and who's human (to quote
a famous very old comic).
