let me tell you folks why....
Universal Corp (who made/sold the Tiger CDI) and ACN had a good working relationship. They sold the CDI with a lifetime warranty too! As is becoming more common, the company was bought out, and the bean counters there changed
2 things that affected the CDI.1) no more lifetime warranty. They also declared that they would not honor the warranty that existed on their units previously sold with the "lifetime warranty" attached to them. This also affected their "relationship" with a certain employee they had there, that always bent over backwards (WAY backwards) to fix problems, or come up with new products (the 6V CDI was done by him on our request). Seems this fellow no longer works there; it's a shame too, he seemed the model employee AFAIAC. But either they fired him, or he left, but no matter he is no longer there, and besides they still don't offer the lifetime warranty anyways.
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2) they figured they could make more $ if they raised the price about 50%. Their bean counters had obviously never taken economics 101, where even the C student figures out that if you raise the price too much, sales plummet and you make less (someday perhaps the Govt and IRS would figure this out too, but don't count on it). I can only conclude that this is exactly what happened, because when they first tried this tactic on us 2 years ago, we just told them "they were crazy and best of luck in your business". I also found it humorous that they called us up not 3 weeks ago stating they had dropped their prices back down again (too little, too late folks), but we'd already found a superior product, nicer housing, etc etc. They slit their own throats.This is evolution in capitalism I suppose, seems that Darwin works here too.
John Aircooled.Net Inc.