Hi Selling well only works if you are making money on each one :)
The 8607 is / was a “select the best” design. If one in a hundred meets that spec and you can’t sell the rest … hmmmm ….. Move the 8607 price up to $200,000 and they probably don’t sell very well. Bob > On Dec 26, 2021, at 5:38 PM, Attila Kinali <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 15:54:06 -0500 > Bob kb8tq <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The market is what dictates how fancy an OCXO gets made. Bottom >> line is that there really isn’t that big a market (and willingness to pay >> for super duper TC). If indeed you could do all the fancy stuff and >> still keep the sell price below $10 then who knows …. > > I wonder about that. I was told by an ex-manager of > Oscilloquartz, that their biggest problem with the 8607 > was that the Option 08 sold too well. So much, that > they had a huge over-supply of the other, lesser > versions of the 8607, to the point that even raising > the price of the Option 08 beyond what a car cost > didn't recover its cost. > > Sure, such a high stability oscillator doesn't have a > mass market. And it's definitely not a comodity item. > But there seems to be decent market even if its very > expensive. > > Attila Kinali > > -- > The driving force behind research is the question: "Why?" > There are things we don't understand and things we always > wonder about. And that's why we do research. > -- Kobayashi Makoto > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send an > email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there.
