That said, I can certainly feel for the ‘job shops’ trying to compete with big international style manufacturers.

I have heard a lot of bad things about mfg.com from small shops who got involved with them. For the project I am currently designing, we need a big shop that has several very expensive pieces of equipment. They will be able to provide our parts much cheaper than a small shop. Small shops run by non-innovative nuts n bolts types trying to make $50/hr with a run of the mill haas will have trouble with mfg.com

Check out the link below to view James’ LinkedIn profile:

http://www.link...lnk=vw_pprofile

Looks like he lives and works in the greater Atlanta area, which is kind of ironic because MFG.com’s headquarters is in Atlanta.

Thanks for the two cents!

Are you getting paid by MFG.com for that statement, because we don’t even have a registered buyer by the name of James Dermit?

And, by the way, our service just launched a couple of months ago and we do only have about 57 members, but, it’s also free-of-charge.

Above and beyond that, it’s a better RFQ creation and management application that puts the buyer in complete control of creation and distribution (unlike mfg.com).

We also plan to be upfront and honest with current and potential customers and will not charge a dime until RFQ volume warrants it.

I have submited RFQs and not had any responses, when I get multiple hits on mfg.com. It seems to me that the better platform is where I get the most traffic around my RFQs.

Just my two cents worth.

My two person team launched this real web 2.0 application a few months ago with a couple thousand dollar investment and a lot of sweat equity. It has has buyer functionality that is superior to mfg.com’s and it’s cheaper for contract manufacturers.

Right now we’re offering free memberships to everyone until there is enough RFQ volume to warrant charging suppliers.

Also, I find it laughable how much hype mfg.com gets when their whole platform is based on a simplified version of the traditional RFQ to Quote process! You can’t route RFQs to potential suppliers based on multiple capabilities, you can’t create multi-line RFQs and you can’t easily add your own suppliers so that use can use their app as your primary sourcing tool.

You can do all of this on cMFGx.com!

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Do I smell burning? Must be something evil then

I had no idea there was so much money in the manufacturers market. I’ve been presenting MyPadz as a ‘next generation computer classifieds’ service. I’m thinking now that was a mistake.