I've lost the battle my friends

[magic mike]

To all my current and potential customers,

This announcement pains me beyond words as I have put so much effort into this project over the last five plus years. The time has come where it is no longer feasible for me to continue to manufacture the MRB Annealer. It is simply not possible for me to compete against the people who choose to have their products manufactured in communist China or other third world countries. I am a proud American who fully understands how lucky I am to live in this country and enjoy the freedoms it offers. I will not, under any circumstance, sell out my country or my fellow Patriots for the sake of profit.

As long as we the people of this country continue to allow the installation of socialist / global agenda driven people with their ill-informed and miss-guided mindset into positions of power like the ones we are suffering under now we are most assuredly doomed. The road we are headed down now is unsustainable and ends at the edge of a cliff, a very high cliff, and once we fall, and we will fall, we will not survive the impact at the bottom of the abyss and America as we now know it will be lost forever.

I ask that anyone who has come to visit my site contemplating the purchase of my machine to please lend your support to any of my competitors who build their machines in our country. They need and would appreciate your business as I know they are struggling like I have. I will continue to provide support to anyone who owns one of my machines for as long as I am able. I am seventy-four now so I'm sure I don't have as much say in that matter as I used to. I fought as hard as I could for long as I could so I reckon it’s time to go sit on the porch stitch up my wounds.

Be a proud American, support your fellow citizens and whenever possible buy American!

God Bless America,
Mike

 

[Ken]

God Bless you and thanks for the words of wisdom. May God guide us in His ways.

 

[Big_Daddy]

Sorry to hear this Magic Mike.

 

[Shooter13]

So sorry to hear, this pains my heart for you, we fight the good fight and that really is all we can do. Where you spend your money matters (to you and the company you choose to purchase from). Choose wisely. My wife and I were just talking about furniture that we have, she said she hates to paint it because it is such a good quality piece (we've had it 40+ years!) then she said everyone thinks if something last a couple of years it's been good! Oh well.

 

[cotntop]

People used to laugh at me back in the 70's because I would mark things in catalogues that was imported. Now I have to mark things that are made in the US, there are very few.

 

[dbduff]

Why do we buy Lapua and not Remington brass? Doesn’t the quality of the product count for buyers decision?

 

[Gargoyle]

Well, bye!

 

[dbduff]

Yes, as long as the buyer is willing to spend more. I did not say otherwise. What I did say is that, perhaps, the OP has exhausted the pool of people who both need a case annealer AND are willing to spend to get one of his.

The fact is that people, generally, are cheap and like to bitch.

Painfully true.

 

[JPTX]

Why do we buy Lapua and not Remington brass? Doesn’t the quality of the product count for buyers decision?

I think you've hit the nail on the head. Many of us buy either what we think is the best product out there within our budget or what offers the most bang for the buck. When it comes to shooting, not many buy solely on what is cheapest. The Lapua items that I use are certainly not the cheapest things around. We live in a World economy and people overseas buy American products too, and they buy a lot of stuff. That's why we have a more or less free market.

 

[bluealtered]

Thank you for your effort magic mike, I wish you the best.

As stated above there are many factors that got our country where we now are, and yes it would be very easy to point fingers at each other and corporations.

However, if you own stocks or don't go to your town meetings to voice your concerns about what is being discussed at either of these meetings, then you have nothing to say because you are part of the problem, so at the least stop pointing your finger at someone or some corporation for doing what you paid them to do by buying their stock or sitting on your back side instead of going to that town hall meeting that is important to your town.

The one thing that really bothers me is the people who buy more gun or gun part stock because they know it's going to rise and then bitch about paying more for those products. It's very simple, if the shoe fits, then shut up and wear it. You are part of the problem, not the answer.

 

[FNSafari]

It's not elected officials who offshore labor, it's CEOs and "maximizing shareholder value" that sends American manufacturing jobs overseas.

I think it's a bit strange when people blame Wal-Mart for destroying small businesses when they come to town. The truth is, it's the town's people that destroy those small businesses buy shopping at the Wal-Mart, but they always have a justification. Anything to deflect blame.

Americans want it fast and they want it cheap and really, they don't care about lost jobs, until it's theirs.

Politicians, the Clinton administration, passed NAFTA and free trade laws that enabled corps to offshore production. Without the politicians selling out the US of A it would never have happened. And these are the same people of the same party that touts itself as the champion of the working man. BS! Corps championed the idea.

Remember what Ross Perot said about it when he was running for president????

 

[nmkid]

Good luck with your future endeavors. I've got one of your machines and have never had any trouble.

 

[choprzrul]

Good luck with your future endeavors. I've got one of your machines and have never had any trouble.

Same here.

 

[ChrisA]

Good luck with your future endeavors. I've got one of your machines and have never had any trouble.

Yep, x3

 

[Joe Salt]

Mike it's kind of hard to compete with Slave Labor!

Joe Salt

 

[gunsandgunsmithing]

Here's a thought:

The OP made a quality product (I assume), that competed with numerous other similar products, in a market that is very limited (realistically, how many people are going to buy a case annealer, it's a pretty specialized piece of equipment).

Again, it's "capitalism" and "the market" at work. The OP says he can't compete on price, and everybody knows that quality always costs more. Then, instead of considering that maybe he's sold as many of these as he ever was going to at that price point, he directs his vitriol at "the usual suspects". Esoteric products come, and they go. If you want to make something that everyone needs, bake bread.

Seems to me either the demand dried up, or the people voted with their dollars. That's how a free-market economy is supposed to function.

I agree in principle but your posts are an oversimplification of the role that govt plays in inflation, cost of goods, wages and cost of living in order to price competitively in the world market. There is plenty that the govt could do to protect domestic mfg and businesses. They can put limits or quotas on what can be imported, they can tax them, they can loosen regulations and they can subsidize American businesses. Not a popular option but it's commonly done and if you don't like it, then we should all learn to eat rice because without subsidies, the American agriculture industry would collapse over night. Ultimately, govt is addicted to money and reducing wages takes money out of their coffers. It's a big, bad revolving door to nowhere.
But to believe govt has no role in us being competitive in the world market is short sighted, at the least.

 

[Steve K]

This is heartbreaking to hear. I always support local and "Made in USA" products. Good luck in your next endeavor.

 

[Big_Daddy]

The OP was not referring to the AMP or Bench Source annealers.
There was a very long thread about his claims and frustrations on here a couple of months ago.
I am not sure if that thread was "nuked" due to the fact that it got pretty nasty on both sides.

AGAIN.....The OP was not and is not referring to the AMP or Bench Source.

 

[wedgy]

[Forum Boss: The issue is that Mike invented and built an innovative, vertical-feed annealer with many unique and innovative qualities.

Some guys in Australia copied Mike's inventions and then sourced major parts in China. They basically ripped off Mike's designs. Had he been a bigger company he could have gotten patents, but that can take years and cost many many thousands in legal fees, followed by litigation vs. a foreign company.]

There was a direct copy of his annealer that is made in china and a thread on here about it. I think it is this one;
https://www.derraco.com/

Mike's Reloading Bench-MRB Annealer

 

[urbanrifleman]

To all my current and potential customers,

This announcement pains me beyond words as I have put so much effort into this project over the last five plus years. The time has come where it is no longer feasible for me to continue to manufacture the MRB Annealer. It is simply not possible for me to compete against the people who choose to have their products manufactured in communist China or other third world countries. I am a proud American who fully understands how lucky I am to live in this country and enjoy the freedoms it offers. I will not, under any circumstance, sell out my country or my fellow Patriots for the sake of profit.

As long as we the people of this country continue to allow the installation of socialist / global agenda driven people with their ill-informed and miss-guided mindset into positions of power like the ones we are suffering under now we are most assuredly doomed. The road we are headed down now is unsustainable and ends at the edge of a cliff, a very high cliff, and once we fall, and we will fall, we will not survive the impact at the bottom of the abyss and America as we now know it will be lost forever.

I ask that anyone who has come to visit my site contemplating the purchase of my machine to please lend your support to any of my competitors who build their machines in our country. They need and would appreciate your business as I know they are struggling like I have. I will continue to provide support to anyone who owns one of my machines for as long as I am able. I am seventy-four now so I'm sure I don't have as much say in that matter as I used to. I fought as hard as I could for long as I could so I reckon it’s time to go sit on the porch stitch up my wounds.

Be a proud American, support your fellow citizens and whenever possible buy American!

God Bless America,
Mike

I agree with all your points. I graduated the year that they signed NAFTA with my BS in mechanical engineering, and while I struggled to find a job, I heard my friends in the south cheer that those "union guys are going to get what they deserve". They brought their jobs going to third world Mexico on themselves don't you know....

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a rabid economic "protectionist" by modern openly internationalist communist standards. So, I will not go into any more depth than that here.

My comment to you is on another matter. I suspect your downfall is AMAZON availability more than Made in China. Which is putting lots of folks out of business.