tcm
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following on from the bav thread...
I wonder if there is a tendency - with a lower priced boat (or car, anything realy) to leap on the (often unusual) failure of any element of a broken boat (espcially if the boat isn't yours) and say Aha!! - and THAT is indicative of the quality throughout the boat! What do you expect, tsk, pay peanuts, hardly surprising tsk etc. expect serious problems, probably all like that
Whereas ... those who spend much more on a boat - perhaps many times the cost of a bav46 might also have problems...But it's almost always a completely different reaction. "Yes, there are always going to be teething problems, highly tuned boats, forefront of technology, small volume, no worries about the quality overall of course and this is a very unusual failure and in fact over x hundred boats and ten million miles of blah this is the first time this particular, and aftrsales fully covers it etc etc and after all it is a handbuilt boat sir..."
So the keel falls off a bavaria boat costing say 120k and arg worldwide panic, engineering investigations and legal, told you so, i'd never have one of those, that's it, etc. Reaction type 1.
Later, the mast snaps off a brand new oyster costing thick end of £3million or more - and barely a murmur. Bad luck, don't gloat it's bad form, just a one off... the second reaction applies. And it's the same with nearly every problem in an expensive boat. And yes, there's plenty of "snags".
Perhaps, when something costs a fortune we simply can't handle the notion that, heh, parts of it might be actually total rubbish, in terms of that thing doing what it's supposed to do. Perhaps this might extend to the whole thing. They might have chosen totally inappropriate and over-expensive materials and been unfamiliar with them. Or just jacked up the price anyway.
There's also a weirder notion, espcially with boats: things can fall apart on a regular basis, appear to use some quite manky components (or at least, not obviously incredibly 3x price ones) AND YET they're still revered as very high quality boats. The cheap stuff might often a lot less or even no such maintenance, but nevertheless hah jeering skoda lada trabant hahar potato bus-shelter junk hoho pah!
Intersting eh? Power of marketing? Perhaps.
I don't own bavaria or oyster, btw...
I wonder if there is a tendency - with a lower priced boat (or car, anything realy) to leap on the (often unusual) failure of any element of a broken boat (espcially if the boat isn't yours) and say Aha!! - and THAT is indicative of the quality throughout the boat! What do you expect, tsk, pay peanuts, hardly surprising tsk etc. expect serious problems, probably all like that
Whereas ... those who spend much more on a boat - perhaps many times the cost of a bav46 might also have problems...But it's almost always a completely different reaction. "Yes, there are always going to be teething problems, highly tuned boats, forefront of technology, small volume, no worries about the quality overall of course and this is a very unusual failure and in fact over x hundred boats and ten million miles of blah this is the first time this particular, and aftrsales fully covers it etc etc and after all it is a handbuilt boat sir..."
So the keel falls off a bavaria boat costing say 120k and arg worldwide panic, engineering investigations and legal, told you so, i'd never have one of those, that's it, etc. Reaction type 1.
Later, the mast snaps off a brand new oyster costing thick end of £3million or more - and barely a murmur. Bad luck, don't gloat it's bad form, just a one off... the second reaction applies. And it's the same with nearly every problem in an expensive boat. And yes, there's plenty of "snags".
Perhaps, when something costs a fortune we simply can't handle the notion that, heh, parts of it might be actually total rubbish, in terms of that thing doing what it's supposed to do. Perhaps this might extend to the whole thing. They might have chosen totally inappropriate and over-expensive materials and been unfamiliar with them. Or just jacked up the price anyway.
There's also a weirder notion, espcially with boats: things can fall apart on a regular basis, appear to use some quite manky components (or at least, not obviously incredibly 3x price ones) AND YET they're still revered as very high quality boats. The cheap stuff might often a lot less or even no such maintenance, but nevertheless hah jeering skoda lada trabant hahar potato bus-shelter junk hoho pah!
Intersting eh? Power of marketing? Perhaps.
I don't own bavaria or oyster, btw...
