Actual Lead Time on Tekton Speakers

If you are able to formulate such a convincing explanation, why aren’t they at Tekton?

I never understood the practice of over promising. Many moons ago I worked retail sales. Appliances,and then furniture. If I sold a special order, and the manufacturer said 4-6 weeks, I would tell the customer 8-10 weeks. 99% of the time I looked like a hero. 

I can understand if you miss a promise once or twice, nobody complains. But if you put a person to write e-mails that are systematically broken promises, then it seems to me that there is a vision of the world that we are used to recognise in large companies, those that are at the mercy of their own inscrutable rhythms and are excluded from a human relationship. Tekton, on the other hand, could still play the card of a decent human relationship. In this sense sincerity would certainly be a winner, for them and for their customers. In any case, it’s a question of taste and priorities.

Exactly. I used to do the same thing when I was an engineer; add 20% - 30% to a project completion estimate. The other engineers would be aggressive with their estimates, at the actual time estimated or even less, in a misguided attempt to impress their managers. Of course, they would come in late and I'd alway come in early. I retired 15 years ago. Most of the others are still working.