Basically we had $10's of thousands of dollars in inventory that wasn't turning over at an acceptable rate. Whatever the cause for the low sales volume, low demand, they weren't made as combos, or lack of information about what they could be run with, we would rather put those dollars into something that will turn over quicker and have in stock something that is in higher demand.
The reason for the mistake on the 1520 quantities was lack of coordination between departments before the sale and me being a little trigger happy. As you can see with the hiccups with the 1717 and the 1512's in 1520 boxes, some things just didn't go the way we had hoped. With the 1520's, I saw in QuickBooks (the program we use to invoice and ship items) that there were less than 20 in stock; so I had the webmaster pull them from the site right then and there because I wanted to have a few spares for mistakes or out of box failures.
It turns out that there were a few hundred more that had not been turned from MySys (the program we use for inventory). Items have to be moved from MySys to QuickBooks to be processed for orders or repairs. I didn't have access to MySys, so I didn't know how many 1520's we actually had. I acted a little too quickly without checking the proper system. (In the old building I could just trot over to the warehouse and check, but that's a loooong walk in the new building :smile: ) I would have rather have pulled them and put them back up, than to have dozens of people order a 1520 and have to tell them it had to be canceled.
So there really was no ulterior motive, nothing dubious or any deeper reasons for this sale. We simply had a lot of motors overstocked and wanted to put those dollars into something more useful. We just kind of tripped over our own feet a couple of times during the process. :tongue:
Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support
Had twee risico-factoren in m'n order in de vorm van een 1520 en 1717car, maar beide gelukkig geleverd zoals besteld!
Het is zeker een goede motor maar hij zou mooier staan in een volledig alu wagen of in een serieus strakke truggy.
