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"sel1" wrote in message
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I have heard that from many - getting surveys on brand new boats! It's
pretty sad when you are spending up to hundreds of thousands on a boat
and
you can still come up with a list of issues/defects from a third party.
That's what I call quality control and concern for the customer's hard
earned cash.

Indeed. What is even more pathetic are the folks buying into the ISO
9000/9001 certification crap that some (can you say Sea Ray) boat
manufacturers tout.


ISO 9000/9001 are very good standards to work by - we have many GOOD
contractors working for us whose organizations actually work by those
standards in their day-to-day activities. The problems come when
manufacturers use them only as lip-service

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G.D.Smith
Harpers Ferry, WV

FOR SALE: 2003 Swee****er 22' Pontoon Boat
http://icanhelp56.homestead.com/gs_pontoon01.html


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