SZD-56-2 Diana

iPilot wrote:
Do you want to say that polish gliders are low in quality and therefore have
to be cheap?

If this is the case, you're very much wrong. The same way, as Poland makes
gliders (hand made, decent quality control), a factory in my country makes
decent pianos. No-one is putting their quality under question. I actively
fly polish gliders (not Diana unfortunately) and I don't question their
quality of manufacturing. Do you?


Of course, not. I was simply pointing that there is a "snob factor" such that
rich people want to pay overpriced stuff because it is fashionable, period.
If you don't benefit from this effect you have to sell cheaper or you don't
sell. Take an example, the French glider Pegase was an excellent glider, very
comparable to the LS4. It was 30% cheaper than the LS4 still it was difficult
to sell, to say the least. I don't understand why you all take this
personnally like if i had said, Polish gliders are crap. The only thing i have
said, and i maintain, is that whatever the qualities of Polish gliders, people
will buy them if they are cheaper than German ones, not in the opposite case.


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Michel TALON