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Question Fisher coin strike
- Thread starter John1 S
- Start date
It's a little different than all the others. Seems like the Threshold setting is where people get confused. Also in the beginning a batch of bad coils went out with the detectors and that gave it a bad start. Actually, it's a damn good detector and easy to operate once you learn how high or how low to set the Treshold for the soil in your neck of the woods. This sucker goes deep. I love mine.
MarkCZ
Well-known member
Many say that its design was to ahead of its time.
Another reason was it started out as an old Fisher company project and it got caught up in the change over to First Texas. First Texas wasn't real interested in taking on the Coinstrike. So it may have lost some marketing in the transition. Rumors from some company employees claim that units like the C$ were very expensive to manufacture.
Another thing that hurt the C$ in the public eye was customer reviews, very few stated it as just a pretty good detector! it was either they hated it, or they loved it. Seemed the people that hated it were the more likely to post their complaints. kind of like an old song,
Good News Travels Slow, Bad News Travels Like Wild Fire.
It the only detector that I know of that didn't get much middle of the road reports.
First Texas claims they could not move the C$ in any numbers??
I'm sure there is way more to why it didn't take off very well, but we the people will probably never know.
Mark
Another reason was it started out as an old Fisher company project and it got caught up in the change over to First Texas. First Texas wasn't real interested in taking on the Coinstrike. So it may have lost some marketing in the transition. Rumors from some company employees claim that units like the C$ were very expensive to manufacture.
Another thing that hurt the C$ in the public eye was customer reviews, very few stated it as just a pretty good detector! it was either they hated it, or they loved it. Seemed the people that hated it were the more likely to post their complaints. kind of like an old song,
Good News Travels Slow, Bad News Travels Like Wild Fire.
It the only detector that I know of that didn't get much middle of the road reports.
First Texas claims they could not move the C$ in any numbers??
I'm sure there is way more to why it didn't take off very well, but we the people will probably never know.
Mark
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
That is a really good question. For some reason they just didn't really catch on with the metal detecting community.
Some say that some early bad reviews killed it.
Some say that the preset program was too hot.
Some say it was because of the feature set was too different from the norm.
Some say that it was too supceptiable to EMI.
Some say that a lot of bad coils went out.
Some say the user interface turned folks off.
Some say they were expecting a CZ with TID numbers.
What ever the reason, even though some of us liked them, they were a flop from a sales viewpoint. Even when 1st Texas dropped the price to $550 for new ones they still had a hard time selling. When the price dropped to $300 to sell them out, they still didn't sell well, though those of us that liked their performance bought a few again at that price.
It is a good study of a design/marketing flop that killed a company because that whole digital platform Los Banos went to sunk their ship.
HH
Mike
Some say that some early bad reviews killed it.
Some say that the preset program was too hot.
Some say it was because of the feature set was too different from the norm.
Some say that it was too supceptiable to EMI.
Some say that a lot of bad coils went out.
Some say the user interface turned folks off.
Some say they were expecting a CZ with TID numbers.
What ever the reason, even though some of us liked them, they were a flop from a sales viewpoint. Even when 1st Texas dropped the price to $550 for new ones they still had a hard time selling. When the price dropped to $300 to sell them out, they still didn't sell well, though those of us that liked their performance bought a few again at that price.
It is a good study of a design/marketing flop that killed a company because that whole digital platform Los Banos went to sunk their ship.
HH
Mike