Re: X-10 to withdra UK-specific products!

["Neil Fuller" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK - I admit it - I fell for it!

Nice :-)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Harrison (Yahoo!)" <mph@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:58 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] X-10 to withdra UK-specific products!


> Don't know if anyone else is on the X-10 Europe reseller mailing
list....
>
> Got a release this morning that basically says "the market isn't
big
enough, we're withdrawing all the UK-specific".
>
> It would appear that 80% of sales are still in the US, and 15% are for
the
"pan-European" versions, with the UK versions a tiny 3%.
>
> ... so they've decided that the manufacturing costs of making the
"UK
versions" like the LM12_U_ are too high to justify the sales.
>
> Things like DIN rails, that don't have UK-specific fittings will still
be
produced.
>
> Eek.
>
> I've put the whole message (which is long, and and in PDF format ) on
www.ascentium.co.uk\x10
>
>
>
> Mark
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