Postby BWD » Thu Apr 26, 2018 8:04 pm
OTOH, Moses is not that small an operation as such things go, is it?
If slingshot will buy a say, a hundred 545/325 sets (or whatever) plus fuselages and masts, that must help Moses amortize their molds and/or pay for new molds to be cut for their next generation of gear.
Slingshot takes on the marketing and warranty responsibility, and doesn't get embarrassed putting out anything half-baked, or delayed by the full R&D needed to develop and tune good foils.
People that want their slingshot dealer to take care of them have the chance to pay for that, and that is worth it to them, apparently.
People that ride a "ghost whisperer" and want to branch out or upgrade, can buy Moses parts to do so.
Or just move over to Moses entirely if they want the newer things that Slingshot is not licensing.
It seems silly to me to buy the Slingshot version, it's like buying Moses from a year or two ago, but costs more.
But I don't think anyone gets hurt.
Imagine if one of the big manufacturer groups hired a lot of talent, made really good foils and still undercut small foil companies on price!
That would be a worse situation, because the incentive to develop new gear would decrease, the little guys would be sad, instead of being creative and leading the way...