hobbyman II
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well!, yes!, I don't know how they do things in your part of the world, but in my experience if the builder says they will have my extension done in two months time, then that's when it happens (two weeks before schedule actually), most people are actually quite good at their jobs, that's why you ask em what they think and base your future actions on what they say, you might as well argue it's pointless to pick up your car from the garage on Wednesday, and actually collect it three weeks later cos "the date they told you will not be correct"
you don't have to research anything, the people you contract to do the job should know what they are doing, if they don't, then bring out the penalty clause, (that's sort of like Santa Claus , but he makes you richer, rather than poorer
)your "oh! you should have known" attitude is a bit cocky, so when you walk into a shop to buy some advertised product and they tell you they are out of stock, that's your fault?, when you go to a match and it gets cancelled because of bad weather, that's your fault too, when you go to catch a train home and find they are on strike, that's your fault?, when someone backs into your car at the supermarket, guess whose to blame, why? you of course!, and when your girlfriend makes off with your best friend, then that's obviously your fault too, I bet you spend a fortune on antidepressants :lol:
the Pandora is a small order for any plastics company, it probably gets fitted in between other jobs, assume Craig DID check out the company, looking at orders they do fill and going from what they say, it could well be reasonable to expect them to be more precise in their estimates , and not saying it was, but how do you know Craig didn't get this company recommended by someone they trust? like TI recommended the board fabricators?, personally, I think they should have made the cases here in the UK or US, maybe even Germany, at least we have people on the ground here, but what's done is done, things seem to heading to a finish, and if the Pandora proves popular enough, then maybe we can move case production here to the West in the future.
footnote: Ironically, a couple of days ago there was a program on BBC r4 about the relationship between big Western firms and Eastern production with many firms being unhappy with the quality and reliability of companies the other side of the equator, even big firms who have invested in plant and facilities in China (for example) are looking at building their next generation plants at or nearer to home, lack of actual skills is one problem, when you have someone assembling DVD drives who's most advanced tool at home is a Hoe and went to school right up to the point where they had to stop and help on the farm at 12/13, then they tend to lack the degree of empathy and understanding you tend to expect in people working on precision, high-tech machinery, they can do the thing by wrote, but they are just as happy turning out substandard gear, as they are making high quality stuff, to an unskilled and disinterested eye, both items are the same shiny thingy they always made, just that one doesn't work properly or fails prematurely.
