11-30-2011, 12:05 AM
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Forest Sprite
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Back Up in the Woods
Posts: 3,657
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Originally Posted by Initiator001
Mark,
You missed out on all the 'fun' twenty years ago when Barry Tunick became General Manager at Estes.
The things he did to try and put his competitors out of business was unreal (Anyone remember the 'reload' video sent to the CPSC?).
He used to tell hobby distributors that AeroTech was out of business. When I would call a hobby distributor and asked why they had not ordered in a while, the distributor would often respond, "I heard you were out of business".
AeroTech did sue Estes. There was a settlement but the damage was done.
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OK, I'll add that to the list of things that I missed out on during my Rip Van Winkle period.  The early Barry Era is not one that I am all that anxious to visit with my time machine.
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