"Gig 601XL Builder" wrote:
RST Engineering wrote:
We've been absorbing costs for about five years and just can't afford
to do it any longer. Two choices. Increase price or decrease costs.

For those that require a manual in the airplane, it is cheaper for
you to print it out on your inkjet than for us to use a copy service.

Jim

Jim, and I say this from a publishing background and the owner of
laser and inkjet printers, Bull****.

I can not print off a copy with an ink-jet or even laser printer
cheaper than you can have them printed. If I can you really need to
find another printer because you are getting screwed. And after you
find a printer that isn't bending you over you still need to increase
the price do so.

A "copy service" isn't for oneses or twoses, you do a run. To do that
you have to anticipate the future market for your kits. Parts have to be
bulk ordered, circuit boards made. Its alot to ask of 2 people who
already have their @sses on the line and are trying to save you a few
bucks. Plus you have to store all of the above, printed materials
included...

Apparently you have no concept of what postage costs either. That gets
factored in when you add weight and still want to be competitive with
the same widget thats already put together...

And since he's providing the circuit diagrams in .pdf format, that
allows others to simply roll-their-own, with no need to buy anything
from RST at all...