There's an old saying...
“Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".”
-John Paul Warren
You can apply that philosophy to products too.
Here's another quote I like that I learned while working at Hewlett-Packard,
"Quality doesn't cost money, it makes money"
I don't know who said the above but it does make sense. Point being, if the RUPES tool proves to be a
best in class tool then people will buy them no matter what the cost.
The last 4-5 cars I've buffed out I've used the Flex 3401 Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher because it was the best tool
in my tool arsenal for the job.
The job being to,
1. Do the job well
2. Do the job right
3. Do the job in a timely manner
That's three criteria that the Flex 3401 met that out of my other options the other tools did not meet. Here's one of those jobs...
Christmas Detail - Ferrari P4 - Move over Rudolf
The forced rotation of the tool enabled me to remove swirls without leaving swirls and work quickly.
If the RUPES polishers can do the same thing and do it better and faster then a certain percentage of people will choose the RUPES as their tool of choice.
One thing for sure, discussion forums have a way of taking a product and
dissecting it,
questioning it,
testing it and
discussing it to death and until what I call a
"Forum Consensus" is reached. Once this happens the tipping point will have been reached.
We're on the way to the tipping point and actually pretty far along it...
Just the two cents of a guy that's buffed out a lot of cars in his life and been a part of "detailing discussion forums" since their inception. I also read the book,
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. A very good book by the way.
