You can't blame the manufacturer. Suppose someone came to you and said, "I want you to make 4 thousand widgets for me and I'll pay you for them when they are ready to ship"

So you make 4000 of them. YOU paid for the material, YOU paid for the factory overhead, YOU paid the workers, etc.

Now you have 4000 ready to ship and the customer says, "I can only pay for 2000 of them - ship them all to me now and I'll pay for the rest later".

These people don't deal in credit. They don't want to hold your note. You placed an order, they filled it, they want to be paid - now. That was the deal.

Apparently when SIG sold the company a few years ago it was bought by someone in New Zealand. The company was not run well right off the bat, but then the owner had some major medical issues and really lost all interest. The company is again up for sale, but the product line is so depleated that no one want it. More than likely, it will go into default and then the big companies will pick it apart like they did with Goldberg.