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Originally Posted by Oblarg
We see this often enough that I'm beginning to lose patience with it, to be frank. FRC suppliers have a captive market and very little competition. I'm thankful for the service they provide (no, I'm not eager to go back to the Small Parts Inc. dark ages), but I can't believe that there's no way this could be improved.
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Oh it could totally be improved. I mean take this year for example. If Andymark would have just kept, oh, $250,000 or more of stock in pneumatic wheels that maybe 15% of teams were using previously, then we wouldn't be in this situation. Oh. And also $250K stock in 4" wheels for the flat unobstructed field game this year. And $250K of mecanum wheels for the unexpected return this year of no defense, high maneuverability. And, and, and. And if only they would oblige us all by either knowing exactly what the game will be and what teams will want and keeping at least 10000 of everything in stock in case the FRC world decides that whirly-ma-whatsits are this year's must-have-to-win item. Yeah, that sounds totally reasonable.