Quote Originally Posted by lensman57 View Post
Before I went to him I tried more than a couple of times to get the stock over here. One was kind enough to tell me that he had retired only to announce a month later that he was making new stocks for people. One never bothered to reply to my email as requested by his auto something reply. And one very famous one claimed that he had lost my details after nearly a year of chasing. No financial loss but a lot of agro and then to top it up Mr LP himself.
Thank god for Custom Stcoks Of Sheffield, the stock range maybe a little boring but atleast they are decent and honest and highly efficient.

A.G
I think that may be indicative of the reason for the poor performance from other stockmakers. If you think of the time which has to be pit in to making a stock, it is only by standardising on a limited number of designs, that it can be viable.

'One man bands' only have a fixed number of hours in a day and thus the number of unique stocks they can produce is limited. That is the problem - if they do good work, they become more in demand and rapidly reach a point where they cannot cope. Those that deal with that dilemma by sticking their head in the sand will inevitably let their customers down, get a bad rep and lose business, to the point that they can cope again ... and then the cycle repeats.