If I had it all to do over I would have called them
MOTORSPINNERS! sooner. I failed to make selling plans a full time
business but it does bring in 7K per year free and clear after paying
Income Tax, the two half of SS and sales tax. Sometimes more! The
website gets 1,200 hits per day. $200 worth of orders came in today.
Not trying is the real failure. In 6 years only a handful of people
have gotten as far as me. I am going to keep my website as a part time
business. 7K a years for selling sheets of paper is not too shabby.
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "lcdpublishing"
<lcdpublishing@...> wrote:
>
> Bravo for you, you coined the phrase and hopefully taught the other
> people here what NOT TO CALL or TO SAY to potential customers! I do
> not believe for one minute that the same people that you
> call "MOTORSPINNERS" would have done any better had they bought your
> plans. Their interests or priorities probably changed or perhaps
> they realized they could actually build a machine on their own
> without your plans or help.
>
> Now had you listened to all those "MOTORSPINNERS" that were telling
> you that you were waisting your time, perhaps you would not have
> gotten to the point you are at now, which, if I recall correctly is
> that your business failed and you are looking for a job after losing
> thousands of dollars tryng to do what many people have been telling
> you that you shouldn't do.
>
>
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "crankorgan" <john@> wrote:
> >
> > I coined the phrase MOTORSPINNERS! all one word in CAPs. They
> used
> > to send me nasty Emails telling me I was wasting my time. So I
> coined
> > the phrase and started mocking them back. They only buy the best so
> > there is no problem with losing them as one of my customers. About
> > eight of the original Cad_Cam guys did buy my Brute plans. What
> they
> > were doing wrong is buying a power supply, motors,drivers and
> software
> > first. They all got into a certain CAD program until they realized
> > they need to know how to draw. Some got as far as buying
> ballscrews.
> > They had no real plan. They would just follow the talk and buy
> stuff.
> > I recognized their Emails on Ebay as they bailed. One guy had this
> > really long paragraph explaning how great his parts were. The
> machine
> > was all angle iron tack welded. It looked like a hang glider.
> Several
> > of them bought Bridgports to retro. One never made it off the
> trailer
> > as it was offered again for sale.
>