Quote from: L4z4r0s on October 28, 2022, 03:40:51 PMQuote from: Yogi on October 28, 2022, 12:17:25 PMQuote from: subscriber on October 26, 2022, 03:14:42 PMI sent Steve of AEAC an email to invite him to look at this thread.You should do the same for the Diana employee who gave the tour.-YSteve said that he has sent the thread's link to Markus at Diana.
Quote from: Yogi on October 28, 2022, 12:17:25 PMQuote from: subscriber on October 26, 2022, 03:14:42 PMI sent Steve of AEAC an email to invite him to look at this thread.You should do the same for the Diana employee who gave the tour.-YSteve said that he has sent the thread's link to Markus at Diana.
Quote from: subscriber on October 26, 2022, 03:14:42 PMI sent Steve of AEAC an email to invite him to look at this thread.You should do the same for the Diana employee who gave the tour.-Y
I sent Steve of AEAC an email to invite him to look at this thread.
Is it just me or was there a lot of dryfiring?
When did Diana stop producing its own parts for the guns ? Or have they always bought from other vendors?
I don't think you'd be talking to anyone in that video for customer service anyhow, you'd reach out to Blueline's Canada arm for service?As someone who has tried to email Diana directly, I received no reply. I sent a second email, also got no reply.I've contacted Blueline in the USA, now a total of 3 times, no reply.I've spoken to Umarex on the phone and they generally provide mixed and occasionally inaccurate information. The only person associated with Diana who has ever replied my queries (and is absolutely fantastic too) is Hector. Hector is absolutely an outsized positive force for Diana's service and PR, and I hope they realize that.
As any type of information in life, this was created with a "readership" in mind.And that "readership" was definitely not the average attendant here.To look for something different is like asking someone to make a comic-book version of the Britannica. ;-)Steve did a great job pointing out and, literally "exacting" some more precise answers from DIANA. Did you count how many times he asked about the making of the barrels? It takes a lot of patience on both parts to achieve something like this because they both speak (literally and figuratively) different languages. And what Steve judges to be his "audience" would probably have been bored by what a few here would regard as "basically technical".For ME, the most important part, that was not said, is that DIANA has not been putting out a lot of things because they have been busy building a completely new factory. And factory it is. Whether we like it or not, the modern definition of manufacturing is based on added value. So, as long as the last "building" adds more than 51% of the total value, it is "Made there".The days of total vertical integration have given way to the days of total globalization.And current "Quality control" has given way to ISO 9000/9001. And if you do not know what that entails, just let me tell you that the company that made the Hubble Space Telescope's Main mirror was ISO 9000 certified. Now, remember that the Hubble needed "glasses". ;-)I still don't understand why some of you say the EMS is not an EMS anymore. Just like the protests from a few years ago about the Stormrider/Bandit/Chaser/Trailscout family, parts need to become more widely available, and also, hopefully, some independent maker will start offering further variations. But this process needs time. And it needs to be economically viable.It took 3 years for aftermarket parts to become available for the above mentioned family, so some patience here is in order.So far, we have made variations on the EMS with all the parts offered (stock, sights, powerplant, caliber), it may not be as "easy" as once thought it would be, but the versatility is still there and it only needs a market demand to make whatever is desired to become real.No need to remind you that cost and market size are inversely proportional.And, lastly, the aim of the video was not to "convert" anyone over to a DIANA fan. The aim of the video was, somehow, to explain that DIANA has taken a huge step forward, and that has taken some time and effort. If things are not going exactly as we would like, we just need to be a little patient.Where we do NOT need patience and where we should NOT be patient is with service by the current local importer. Only by alerting DIANA of the problems we face on this side of the Atlantic can we solve this in the long run. Solving our problems without alerting DIANA is just rewarding the delinquent attitude of the current importer by isolating DIANA from the market sentiment.JMHOHM
Thank you, Hector. I really feel like you "got" me and Diana's overall intended message with this video offering.Best,SteveAEAC