Went to the WOODWORKS 2003 show in Nashville Saturday .. .. .. spoke with a lady from WOODCRAFT who offered me a catalog and a coupon good during their Grand Opening .. .. .. I half jokingly declined, saying I was still mad at WOODCRAFT for the clamp fiasco. She said if many more folks hold out because of that, their Grand Opening might well be a bankruptcy sale. Seems there were a lot of folks showing up for the sale and leaving empty handed. She said each store was allotted 40 clamps in each of 3 sizes or 120 total. There are 70+ stores in the country. That comes to 8400 clamps out in the field. If WOODCRAFT bought 15,000 clamps total, that left 6,600 clamps in stock for the midnight madness online sale. Assuming at least SOME were set aside for employees and "special;" friends, there were probably less than
6,000 available for sale online. At 12/customer, that left enough for 500 orders, or approximately 10 per state. I still think they under ordered by a tremendous margin.- posted
20 years ago