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You’ve obviously never run a company. Unless you have such a successful business that can afford the luxury of keeping poor selling products for nostalgia’s sake, you only keep profitable products in your lineup. I bemoan the passing of the SLS kits, too. I have one, the SLS Brighton. An incredibly nice kit with a gazillion parts. It’s not hard to imagine that kit costing a fortune to offer.
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I have had at least a dozen business analysis tell me outright I need to at least double my prices. Assuming I start outsourcing to China, otherwise triple.
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We did multiple runs of kits when we first released them but made only a few after a year or two of the ones that didn't sell very well. I asked Carl why we didn't just discontinue them so we could make room for the new ones, his answer was "but someone might want it and it will be ready". We were really running out of space toward the end as many of you know our business was really "in house".
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Sheryl, thanks for doing that, it was fun to watch the list grow. I have been trying to track down what the original four Semroc Kits released at NARAM 45 in Indiana in 2003 were. In addition I would like to know what the next three after that were. Carl posted December 7, 2003 that the Squire was just released as the 8th Semroc Kit (an original Semroc design), in that same thread Gordy says he picked up a Laser-X so that was one of the first 7. Does anyone have solid evidence for the first four and
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The first I ever heard about the Semroc rebirth in the early 2000's were from the SLS Scorpion and Jaguar on ebay. Unfortunately I don't know if they were in the 1st 7 offered.
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Restoring part of the lost posts:
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I am compiling a list of dates listed on instructions for Semroc kits. I can't find these
Astron Booster-8 Booster-16 My Boid Swift-BG Xkits: SST Shuttle 1 (not the cc kit version) Nighthawk (Not confirmed released as an xkit)-Trident xkit only Don't bother searching online, but please check the instructions if they are from the Carl era, and will have a North Carolina address on them. Any help is greatly appreciated! Last edited by 5x7 : 09-02-2019 at 12:30 PM. |
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I have the SST Shuttle and Astron instructions. What exactly are you looking for on them?
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By the way, I got the version of the SST Shuttle that says cckit near the top, I’m looking for a version that says Xkit. Almost all of the instructions have a full date when they were completed, just before release, it’s often after all the ‘about’ text, although on a few of the non standard instruction sets I had to hunt for it. See the screenshot attached, thanks!
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Nothing at all on the Astron. I'll go digging for the SST Shuttle.
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