Originally Posted by
linberl
Yeah, I guess what I'm saying is that sometimes if you change things that make something what it is, then the changed thing is not saved. It's an entirely new company, with a different mission and method. So if BF is "saved" by changing the essentials, then it's not saved, it's replaced. In which case, what's the point in buying it? Just start something new.
Well, if you care to look at it that way (glass half empty) you could, but if market demands/business climate changes leads you to achieve the same goal differently (steel frames, hand brazed...just not on OUR shores) and you survive an ever changing business by evolving than you've approached the problem and evolved to survive.
Would any of us KNOW the difference between a steel frame brazed in Eugene Or., vs one brazed in Taiwan?
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of course longevity is yet to be introduced into this convo but the lifetime warranty is potentially a part of an overlying problem. Warranty might have to become more realistic and in tune with the rest of the industry. 5 yrs frame?)