I visited Mike Elliott's blog page about his life in Bend, OR. and I came apon his latest and very sad post.
He is closing down his business. You can read the full blog here: http://socal2bend.blogspot.com/
The story is when he moved to Bend, his tech didn't want to go so he hired another tech. He was killed by a car while riding his bike. Mike, was able to talk the old tech to take some of the work and after a few years he decided to not take anymore work from Mike.
So Mike said:
"So yesterday I took the first steps: I shut off the toll-free telephone number and set up an "auto-respond" message on my email ("We regret to inform you but we are no longer in business, we wish to thank you for the many years of loyalty ... "), and have changed the main page on my website to present the same message.
I have but four jobs remaining which I feel obligated to complete: a customer in Florida to whom I offered my services to help sort out a technical problem, a fellow from whom I am expecting payment to cover the cost of shipping his repaired units to his address in London via UPS Freight, a man in Turkey whose amplifier is in my possession and must be returned, and a nice man in Italy who prepaid for the upgrades on his d-a converter -- one last job which my San Diego co-worker has agreed to complete.
But after that, I am shut of this company. More importantly, I am shut of the role that I have put myself into as a designer, and of the burden of worrying about my customers. They are adults and the things I made are but hobbies.
I can finally close this chapter of my life -- and move on."
For us owners of Counterpoint equipment this is sad to hear.
John
He is closing down his business. You can read the full blog here: http://socal2bend.blogspot.com/
The story is when he moved to Bend, his tech didn't want to go so he hired another tech. He was killed by a car while riding his bike. Mike, was able to talk the old tech to take some of the work and after a few years he decided to not take anymore work from Mike.
So Mike said:
"So yesterday I took the first steps: I shut off the toll-free telephone number and set up an "auto-respond" message on my email ("We regret to inform you but we are no longer in business, we wish to thank you for the many years of loyalty ... "), and have changed the main page on my website to present the same message.
I have but four jobs remaining which I feel obligated to complete: a customer in Florida to whom I offered my services to help sort out a technical problem, a fellow from whom I am expecting payment to cover the cost of shipping his repaired units to his address in London via UPS Freight, a man in Turkey whose amplifier is in my possession and must be returned, and a nice man in Italy who prepaid for the upgrades on his d-a converter -- one last job which my San Diego co-worker has agreed to complete.
But after that, I am shut of this company. More importantly, I am shut of the role that I have put myself into as a designer, and of the burden of worrying about my customers. They are adults and the things I made are but hobbies.
I can finally close this chapter of my life -- and move on."
For us owners of Counterpoint equipment this is sad to hear.
John
