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Quoted from KevinCPR:So CPR is going to rescue what was the former "late 2014 IPB run".
Sweet - now maybe people will calm down after raking PPS and CPR over the coals in the Stu/Artwork thread over fears of PPS is shutting everyone down fud 
Quoted from jwilson:I find it difficult to believe that it takes a year to make a playfield.
Is it a volume issue from the insert supplier? What kind of company can't deliver product in less than a year?
This has been hashed out many times in earlier threads which you can enjoy at your leisure... but it's a few things
- Inserts must be bought in volume and have a very very very long lead time.
- To keep costs down, insert orders for games are combined, so multiple games must be planned before they can be ordered
- Wood has bulk ordering and lead time issues as well
- Inking playfields is not a fast thing... and each playfield needs multiple screen passes
- CPR is small - they don't have the ability to do multiple copies of the same steps concurrently
- CPR is small and want to remain small
If CPR were bigger, had more lines, more staff, and could afford a huge inventory overhead to minimize parts leadtime... they could start projects faster. But this isn't churchhill cabinets.
I don't know what the story is with the world cartel on insert manufacturing or something... but apparently the suppliers don't sit on huge inventories of every variation either.
Quoted from PopBumperPete:@Foraisu, i have a problem with Kevin coming on to Pinside and complaining his customers are not loyal enough
II'd love it if my customers were predictable, but the are not. It is part of running a business. If you deal with customers then you have tottake the good with the bad
Every other business has the same issues
Kevin needs to deal with it
He did no such thing (complaining) - they simply stated their reasoning WHY the change and what they hope to achieve from it. The only negativity in the thread I see is coming from you.
CPR doesn't want to have a inventory and sell through model. They want a built to order model with only small overages. That's their choice - if you don't like it, don't buy from them and buy from the playfield people that stock inventory for you to buy.
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