I am a recent convert to 'magic eraser' for stylus cleaning, which ticks all the boxes for me.
To remove static I wonder why no one sells UV lights for the purpose. At least some physics behind it, even if the intensity required to actually work is higher that you would want in the room.
After experimentation on a lot of ebay buys I reckon that, if a record doesn't clean up with a bit of surfactant in distilled water, then it probably won't and then wet play becomes of interest. I would still like an ultrasound machine for convenience but a lot more realistic these days on what you can achieve with PVC that's had a hard life!
Surely to sell in the US and meet CARB/CAFE he has to either prove it works or prove it doesn't? You can't sell magnetic fuel line clips or in tank catalysts any more.
Only if someone sues him. The market is wide open for all sorts of fraud and enforcement is extremely spotty.
How surprising.
I had a visit from an acquaintance earlier this week, who started to talk about also selling something in Belgium, besides The Netherlands.
Belgium has 2/3d of the population number in NL, so I assumed that for every 3 items of a product sold in The Netherlands each year, 2 will be sold in Belgium.
The friend also mentioned international registration of Intellectual Property for the stuff he was talking about.
Gave me the impression he was not just eager to visit the southern neighbors, but already contemplating to hop across the North Atlantic.
He struck me as someone very focused on maximising profit figures, something which I had not expected of him.
The most surprising part for me was that the item to sell is not his IP, nor does he own/have the exclusive sale rights.
To get a feel of the leverage, I thought it interesting to do a comparison with Bybee QP's.
The Netherlands have 16.7 million inhabitants, suppose each year 100 Dutch individuals buy small Quantum Purifiers.
As audio could be considered a homogenous international market, the number above would suggest there'd be about 66 buyers in Belgium, each year.
The US roughly has about 20 times the number of people in NL, which would suggest 2000 small QP's would be sold in America, each year.
One could easily estimate a global annual figure of 10,000 customers, but one might also assume each buyer takes 2, makes 20,000 items.
A small Quantum Purifier did $100, suppose Mr Bybee's take of the list price was a quarter, makes $25.
Times 20k is half a million dollars.
Unfortunately, the small Quantum Purifier is no longer sold.
The larger one does $200 each, and the QP is just one item of half a dozen Bybee products.
Mr Bybee must be really really well-off, if several million dollars revenue each year is 'candy money'.
(the acquaintance I mentioned above has also been running a 'candy store' show for many years, and I never even realised it, till recently. He's also semi-retired, btw, also said he just likes to keep busy. Ironic, isn't it ?)
Not having exclusive sales rights now can be changed by signing a new contract with the supplier. There will probably be long negotiations to satisfy the desires of those who already sell it andwho will now have to buy from the exclusive distributor. That's how it usually works, but is not necessarily bad.
All sorts of more or less odd deals are made every day. They someties seem very odd, but once you get down to it (into the nitty-gritty details) they are usually adjusted to specific requirements. For example, when R J Reynolds Tobacco Inc. sold the rights to manufacturing of Winston cigarrets to Japan Tobacco, they did so for the entire world, EXCEPT for USA. R J Reynolds is still the sole supplier of Winston in North America. Obviously, that worked for both parties.
As for assuming how much will be sold where, be warned, those are dangerous assumptions. German outnumber the Dutch by over 4:1, jet my experience clearly showed that on some years, Holland was a better customer to me than Germany. Beligium was way below that. That will depend mostly on how good your distributor is in terms of spending advertising money and his general links to the industry.
All sorts of more or less odd deals are made every day. They someties seem very odd, but once you get down to it (into the nitty-gritty details) they are usually adjusted to specific requirements. For example, when R J Reynolds Tobacco Inc. sold the rights to manufacturing of Winston cigarrets to Japan Tobacco, they did so for the entire world, EXCEPT for USA. R J Reynolds is still the sole supplier of Winston in North America. Obviously, that worked for both parties.
As for assuming how much will be sold where, be warned, those are dangerous assumptions. German outnumber the Dutch by over 4:1, jet my experience clearly showed that on some years, Holland was a better customer to me than Germany. Beligium was way below that. That will depend mostly on how good your distributor is in terms of spending advertising money and his general links to the industry.
I will try that, but first try with a cheap stylus, the one i use is a little bit to expensiv for a crash.
But how can UV Light reduce static electricity?
To work yes, but given the number of non-functional to downright dangerous things sold over the years it intrigues me why a low level UV light had never been offered as a static reducer. Just the right mix of 'real science' with an application in which it would either not work or damage things
Billshurv, here this Make a $20 ozone generator. might enable you to live out that dream.
There is basically no rational reason for dowsing to work. So of course it does. Talk about. Blind testing. They dows the area, pick the spot, remove a slab of concrete, dig a bit and find just what they sketched out from dowsing.
Having needed a new well when living in Ireland the local dowser did his magic and came up with a spot to drill. His estimate was that water would be found in adequate quantity at 32' from the surface and advised that the drill should go a few feet more to give a sump.
The drillers announced that they had hit water.....at 32'3".
It can work. [In Ireland most dowsers refuse to be paid other than a small gift such as a packet of cigarettes; they believe that the 'gift' is from Heaven and that to in any way commercialise it would risk its removal!
Perhaps some subjectivists believe that their 'Golden Ears' are a similar gift!
The drillers announced that they had hit water.....at 32'3".
It can work. [In Ireland most dowsers refuse to be paid other than a small gift such as a packet of cigarettes; they believe that the 'gift' is from Heaven and that to in any way commercialise it would risk its removal!
Perhaps some subjectivists believe that their 'Golden Ears' are a similar gift!
They are in production again in the UK.
Stylast left white crystals on my stylus that were hard to remove.
Hah, I linked two similar scams in another thread.
The Quadro Tracker was was particularly fun because I had a personal connection with that one- the brother of the guy who went to jail over this was a first-rate wine importer who I knew pretty well (you may have as well?). Among other goodies he brought in, he was the US importer for Alain Voge's superb Cornas.
The Quadro Tracker was was particularly fun because I had a personal connection with that one- the brother of the guy who went to jail over this was a first-rate wine importer who I knew pretty well (you may have as well?). Among other goodies he brought in, he was the US importer for Alain Voge's superb Cornas.
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