Must be a hard thing...dealing "Husky, Jonsered, Dolmar, Red Max" knowing that any Echo/Stihl/Solo can beat any of those brands best saws of equal displacement on youtube! And I remember attending a GM conference about the "perception of quality". What wins on Sunday sells on Monday...true even with saws is what your telling me. Whats a dealer to do with all that informational static in the market place! I somehow think you can handle it.
Not sure how to interpret that post, since it is not very well written, but since the whole point of this thread is to argue, I accept.
My post was about how much humor I found in the "saw beats saw" stuff, so, it's really not a "hard thing", or something I can't handle. The people who can't handle it are those who cry foul when their preferred saw comes up short in a meaningless contest.
"Any Echo/Stihl/Solo" can indeed beat, or get beat by, any equal displacement saw of the brands I sell. My real point is that it is pointless. Most of the saws we talk about here are reasonably competetive in like displacements.
But as far as selling goes, what happens here on AS, on Youtube, or in your own confused mind, has very little to do with what sells out in the real world. Regardless of how much winning is done on Sunday; Echo, Solo, Red Max, or Dolmar are not going to sell on Monday or any other day of the week in anything that approaches a significant number. (that's why I no longer carry Dolmar). Husky and Stihl are the big dogs in this world, and that is not something that is likely to change.
I've been doing this a long time and I've seen this all before. Particularly with Dolmar. The idea that the 7900 is such a great saw that it will move the market is just a remake of an act that was played out 20 years ago. The 120si was a GREAT saw vs it's competition at the time, and if that didn't do it in a market that was far more open than it is now, you can stop dreaming about the 7900 making a difference today. Dolmar will remain where it has always been, great products, but out on the fringe of the market with little recognition. It's a shame, cause they make great stuff.
Solo, with copycat Dolmars at inflated prices, will continue to be a nobody going nowhere.
Echo, like Red Max, is focused on trimmers and backpacks, and will never dent the saw market although they have decent product. Red Max is now getting some re-labled Huskys, but who cares? Nobody is going to buy them. It's hard enough to sell the Jonsereds.
Ask a pro user who spends his time in the woods making his living while guys like you are making "cookie cartoons" on Youtube why he runs Husky or Stihl and you might learn a little bit about why those two brands are the only ones on the lead lap.
