ORIGINAL: PatrickCurry
ORIGINAL: mikimra
I've flown Sig airplanes for years. Most of them were stick built kits, but I really liked the Senior Kadet ARF also. The pricing on the Sig website for the ARF is crazy high, but if you go to Advantage it's still priced reasonable, although on backorder status. If getting swallowed up by the ''Big 2'' increases availability and keeps prices in line, I'm all for it!
If Tower buys them, three things will happen. First, the majority of the Sig products will be dropped. Marketing will look at the product line to determine what is ''profitable'' and drop anything they deem not marketable any more. That means all the control line will disappear (and if you think there are not many kit builders left any more, take a look at how many control line fliers are left, but yes, we're still out here) and all but maybe 3 or 4 of the most popular planes will disappear. Second, prices will be increased to ''bring them inline'' with their other product lines and see what the market will bear. Third, they will shop the designs out to see where they can be produced at the lowest possible cost. The planes will be RE-DESIGNED to make it easier for the ARF manufacturers in China to produce them at the lowest possible cost like they've done with pretty much every other design they've ever purchased. The only thing that'll make you think you're getting a Sig plane is the Sig name on their web site and their catalog to make you THINK you're getting a Sig airplane. It will neither build nor fly like the plane you USED to buy from Sig. Nor will they support you after the sale like the folks at Sig. I'm not a ''Tower hater'' but they do seem to have become the ''Walmart'' of the hobby world trying to run everyone else out of business and squeeze every penny of profit they can out of what they sell. I guess it's just the ''global economy'' they keep telling us about boys.
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Thank you Mr. Curry.
That's exactly what I meant with this thread.I'm also not a tower hater I've been purchasing from them since I was 14 years old(1986).
I can see that sig still has a good customer base and are trying to get their arf line established again. In the mean time it seems to me the kits are keeping the money flowing in order to get to that point.
Hind sight is 20/20 as we all know. Whats here today could be gone tomorrow and I don't want the people that LOVE or even those that could LOVE Sig products in the future to miss out because we were caught sleeping. Carl Goldberg,Lanier,and Midwest are the ones that come to mind but there are many more beside them that are not with us as manufactures anymore.