it still does a really good job.
But not as good as other products available. MX-3, for example.
I'm not having a pop but you haven't actually answered the OP's question of why OcUK use AS5 when MX-3 is proven to be more effective (at least I think that is what the OP was trying to ask? I am certainly interested anyway).
I am really struggling to find a credible defence/explanation for OcUK on this one other than that they have a massive surplus of AS5 stock - perhaps due to over-ambitious predicted sales figures (in that case, sack the purchasing dept.), or is it (it can't be, can it?) that MX-3 is slightly more expensive than AS5?
The latter, as a reason, would be nothing short of a scandal because the price difference between the amounts used on a single build must be a few pence? It is certainly a fraction of 1% of the the entire cost of these machines. Perhaps though it is for this, and similar acts of extreme frugality that has resulted in Spie owing those Ferraris? I suppose I should be impressed with his extraordinarily scrooge-like behaviours.
Surely if OcUK want to maintain/build it's reputation then the very the least that they can do for customers who are spending 100s if not 1000s of £££s on machines, expecting that they be top-notch, is to use the best materials available to them to actually make them so?
Knowing how businesses tend to operate i.e. profit/bottom-line is everything, dog-eat-dog world etc. It just seems likely that this is an exercise in extreme penny-pinching that will ironically have an ultimately negative long-term impact to OcUK's reputation through word-of-mouth, reviews, referrals etc. This will therefore see a thinning of those oh-so precious finances, *EEK*!
Ask yourself: Which scenario would you rather see from a business perspective? The one described above which results in a permanently damaged reputation and falling sales - I have visions of the OcUK mods waiting in lines at soup kitchens - aww, bless. Or, would you rather a more upbeat scenario (where the mods get to stay in their own homes), one in which OcUK's reputation grows positively due to the increased customer satisfaction from people knowing they are being sold products that are built to the highest specification, using the best materials? Of course you would rather this - it was a stupidly rhetorical question! We all want this because it would undoubtedly lead to increased sales, and therefore profits - dwarfing the current AS5/MX-3 money saving fiasco (how much does it save anyway, £200per annum? If not less?) - Spie could then make us all feel inadequate again by buying a shiny new car or 5.
I know which I would choose....despite the supercar inferiority complex that would ensue.
This is all hypothetical and conjecture, you understand. However, until people are given a valid reason for the clear compromise in quality of thermal paste used to build machines that are advertised as "
the pinnacle of performance", which are built using "
only the highest quality components ensuring the highest levels of reliability", then assumptions will unfortunately be made.
It's win-win for everyone if corners aren't cut. The customer is happy, and the bottom-line remains healthy, FACT! Insanity lies t'other way - You've been warned!
Spie, if you are reading this then before you ask - Yes, I accept your offer and will become your Chief Financial Strategist/Vice-President (in charge of thermal paste).
