Why do manufacturers discontinue their best products?

[rphud]

Hey, hey, hey now! Stop using the term nitwit and engineering in the same sentence or thread. All bonified studies have proven that no certifiable nitwits have engineering degrees. So just stop!

[ProfessorM]

Originally Posted by rphud

Hey, hey, hey now! Stop using the term nitwit and engineering in the same sentence or thread. All bonified studies have proven that no certifiable nitwits have engineering degrees. So just stop!

LOL. I was just joshing, although I have encountered some doosee's in my years. Some still can accept you can't put a round peg in a square hole though.
Noticed I said most are very smart, at least smarter than I as they chose the clean cloths field of endeavor. Me, I always have dirty finger nails and cuts on my hands and am usually bitching about some engineer.

[Joe]

Popular products are usually mature products. They become so widely available that people begin to try and sell them cheaper than the competition.
Usually, higher volume stores or big box stores can offer the lowest prices. This erodes the sell-through rate of the other stores that can't compete in volume, so they elect to not carry the item.

[FishermanTim]

Then there's the disposability factor.
If you sell a product that is maintenance free, and guaranteed to last a lifetime, what are the odds that the customer will come back more frequently than if the product needed cleaning, recalibrating, parts replaced or entirely replaced?

Unfortunately, when you build the best product, you have to work even harder to attract repeat customers, unless they return for smaller items.
Most everyday products built today are built with an "obsolete" fact built in, so you WILL have to replace part or all of the product within a limited timeframe.

That's why I learned how to do basic (and I mean basic) tuneup/cleaning of all me reels. I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do what I can do myself.

Remember when Penn really used to be a product you could always count on?

[Tagger]

add "whip lash" to the list ..