I don’t post very often on this sight, but I read it religiously for information. Thank God I did not pull the trigger on the F series. When I heard about it coming out the first of the year I was phone call away from ordering a Z series. Figured I would wait because the F series looked like it had all the features that I wanted.
As a consumer I could not be more disappointed in a product launch and I don’t even own one yet.
I manufacture and provide services in to industrial clientele. If put out a product like this I would be out of business, period. Its amazing how stupid and ignorant companies take the general public for.
I have found that sometimes those that sit in the Ivory Tower are completely isolated from what is really going on around them. As consumers we should let these Ivory Tower executives know how we feel about there products.
Let’s start with this guy. Larry Rougas
From Pioneers Web Sight:
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Larry Rougas is vice president of marketing and product planning for the Mobile Entertainment Division of Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. In this capacity, he heads the marketing and product planning initiatives for Pioneer's core mobile products that include audio video, satellite radio, single CD players, amplifiers and speakers. As a marketer, he strives to reach consumers with creative advertising and branding campaigns, implement dealer and distributor sales programs with extremely high "sell-through" to consumers and utilizes various channels such as website, online and literature to inform and educate consumers of Pioneer products and technologies. As the head of product planning, he is deeply involved in the progression and development of existing and future products in his category. His primary objectives are to offer the most innovative products and produce mobile devices to fit various lifestyles.
Rougas has been with Pioneer for more than 11 years. He started his Pioneer career as a product specialist in 1995. In 1996, he joined the sales team as a district sales manager for the New England and New York territory where he held the position for seven years. In 2003, Rougas became a zone director and one year later he was promoted to vice president of national account sales overseeing sales activities of large national accounts including Best Buy, Circuit City and Wal-mart.
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He is out of the Long Beach Corporate Office.
The corporate phone number is (213) 746-6337:
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/ ... e+Services.
On this press release there is an email for [email protected]
I tried to find Larry’s email but could not. I might be [email protected]. I will give it a try and see it if gets kicked back If anyone else finds it, post it so we can let him know what we think, especially those of you that actually bought this Turkey in disguise.
I think its time we spend a minute or two and let them know how disappointed we are that they could even think of allowing this product to go to market. As others said, how in the world did this product make it through the QA testing.
You know, at least with Microsoft we know were getting the BSD, regardless of the version. We expect it because unfortunately for the masses there is no alternative operating system. Pioneer on the other hand has got to understand first hand that we have the ability to buy other products, equal if not better to there’s.