Minelab dumping smaller dealers

[sand surfer]

dumped all the beard and butter dealers ,so now as you said we will have to wait and see

 

[wick p]

Holden and Ford were the biggest in Australia for many years. Where are they now. Things change. Can't be that hard to manufacture circuitry these days. There are bad cheap copies around already. Imagine if they got it right. Who would pay the extra thousands? We don't know what changes are coming but things will evolve. I prefer to buy Local products but!!

 

[Flatlander]

What makes me laugh they still selling in anaconda, johnny Applebee's etc so what the hell , they have no knowledge of industry, they don't sponsor or help with tec info when I'm stuck out the other side of willcania

 

[EVIE/BEE]

Codan (Minelab) hold all the patents.
Other companies can only use lapsed patents unless they make super human improvements, we're stuck with Codan.

 

[davsgold]

That's just a sad fact at the moment. Coden is a pretty big company in the field compared to other detector manufacturers, the fact that they are happy to allow others businesses to make add on products for people to use on their detectors with their blessing shows that they probably don't care what the customer thinks about their treatment of the smaller retailers.

Um I don't think they are happy about other manufactures add on products, otherwise they would not put chips in the plugs of the coils for the 7000's and chips in the coils of the 6000's and yes they had heaps of various coils from lots of manufactures for there older 4500's and 5000's and previous GP machines

And they get kinda upset if a (ML) dealer sells other brand detectors, and yes I agree ML detectors are streets ahead of most of the competition, for now, and ML want to keep it that way

 

[Mackka]

What Coden is doing is not unusual in the manufacturing world.