What what I've read about Ol' Harry, long before any kind of phone or 'net. He would write to his customers, especially if there where problems. 

In my trade (machinist), same trade as he is doing on the molds and possibly his work, when I did work for companies, I bought the material, made the parts, payed for the processing, inspected the parts and made out a inspection sheet (with all dimensions), transported them to the buyer, who then inspected them to verify my numbers. And THEN they cut me a check at the beginning of the next month if I was lucky or 30 days AFTER, if not!!!

If I had any problems, I sure as hell told them about!

JMO,

Frank

Rich_Siegel wrote on May 12^th, 2011 at 8:55pm:

I don't know. I spent a lot of career in manufacturing, and we knew that it takes one day to make one day's worth of product. Lead times greater than ~ 4 weeks make no sense, particularly with the technical improvements that have reduced setup time. Lead times of 3 months are nonsense for manufactured goods of any type, unless there are extremely long process times like ageing iron machine tool castings.
The gunguys never have got it. Pope seems to have been on the edge of poverty for much of his working life ex the Stevens years, he clearly could not manage a business-even a 1 man business. He's the model for many of them.
I don't know why it is, but it is.
joe b.

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I hope you bring your astounding problem solving skills to your work as an ASSRA board member. Wait, I think I see your results already!!
joe b.

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Reminds me of a conversation I overheard recently. A machinist made a set of tang sight mounting screws for a customer's Winchester, and was going to charge $5 for the screw set. 

The customer pissed and moaned that the price was too high for just two screws.

The machinist told the customer that he could go buy his own lathe and all the tooling, purchase the metal, pay the electricity to run the machinery and lights, etc, and the customer could then make his own screws for FREE!!!

The customer hemmed and hawed, then said he'd pay the $5. 

The machinist said "No you won't. You'll get the hell out of this shop and never come back." The machinist then turned to me and said "Here, have a set of free screws." 

Some folks never learn the true value of something until they're forced to do it for themselves. Others just never learn. 
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Doesn't sound like anyone knows what situation David Moss is going through just now. I wonder if shooters complained about HM Pope not delivering on orders just after the San Fran quake?

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Just got to thinking about the year of suffering I had to bear while waiting for my .25 Hoch mold.  I remember calling the shop to pester Dave. He always answered the phone. Made the suffering much easier.   And he blamed the delay on CPA for ordering large volumes of molds.  They didnt have what I wanted. That spread the blame out a little and helped. 

A tornado is a very good excuse.   

              Joe. 

I figure I lost my $115.00. Just think, if I had just waited another week he ran a special for ,I think it was $90.00. Oh well! I've been using the internet for about 8 years and this is the first time I've lost anything.  If I liked his molds I was going to buy four more. I feel lucky I only lost some money. With a slight twist of fate I could have been on the other end of the transaction and lost something much more important.