ARLA/CLUSTER: Esclarecimentos de John Henry - KI4JPL (TenTec) aos seus clientes - vendemos os ativos mas não os passivos.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Ten Tec announcement

As some of you may be aware, Dishtronix has purchased the assets (but
not the liabilities) of Ten Tec from RKR Designs. . I had desired to
keep this under wraps until Ten Tec is reorganized, but there is too
much speculation concerning the service department to continue without
an announcement of some sort.

There is a myriad of things that must be accomplished before
everything is formalized. Unfortunately these things must be done
before we can continue with jobs that were sent in for repair to RKR.
At this time I would ask people to be patient and please do not call
or email me about your repair. When we get the phone numbers
transferred successfully or new phone numbers we will post them. As we
progress with the change, someone will contact you about your repair.
When service resumes we will be contacting the repair customers.

As some of you may be aware I have been looking at all aspects of
operation of the company and restructuring operations has been
necessary. In reviewing the service department accounts, it is
apparent that some customers use the service department to diagnose
the radio and elect to not proceed with the repair. Unfortunately this
open door policy costs the company one hour of billable time to
receive, unpack, open, diagnose, provide an estimate and repack a
radio for return to the customer.

Effective immediately, all radios including those sent in to RKR, will
incur a 140.00 minimum charge to look at a radio, even if it is not
repaired. Service time is 125 per hour with the average repair
requiring from one to two hours. This means you can expect to pay at
least 265.00 plus parts and return shipping for any repair.

For customers who sent radios in to RKR which were not repaired, who
object to these terms, we will return your unit to you at your
expense.

A second problem in the service department is with the time
technicians spend on the telephone that quite often ends up having
nothing to do with the Ten Tec product but is some other station
deficiency.
The problem here is Ten Tec is not compensated for that time, yet Ten
Tec pays wages to the technician. When the service department resumes
operation, Ten Tec will charge the customer for any telephone call or
email that consumes more than five minutes of technician time. That
time will be billed in quarter hour increments at the prevailing
service rate.

I am fully committed to bring Ten Tec back to a sustainable state.
This will take some time. Please give us time to finalize these plans
since there are so many business related issues to get through. We
will definitely need to rely on you as customers to help continue the
Ten Tec tradition of innovative product and cutting edge technology.

Given the content of the new owners announcement above, I (John Henry)
also request that if you can wait a while for your product to get
serviced in the Ten Tec service department, please let them alone
until they get back with you as he described above. If you absolutely
have to have your unit back now, then the service  ... email address is
still working, and will continue to work. The phones are in
transition, so I doubt you will be able to call and get an answer for
a while. once phones are set up, the numbers will be announced. Once
the website is ready, everything will be on it. Remember, if going to
tentec.com takes you to rkrdesignsllc.com, then the website transition
has not completed yet.

Given the nature of this announcement, and it will almost positively
bring out more questions, again, please be patient. The new owner is
working through a lot of business issues, and I myself work a full
time day job and consult into the evening, so, answers may be few and
far between. Though this announcement is going out to a lot of venues,
I will attempt to monitor
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ten_tec_radio_net/
conversations/messages

73,
John Henry KI4JPL