I hope all of you guys get your stuff back in the condition in which it was sent. I have been in this type of business for over 35 years. I know what it cost to run a legitimate full time business and charge enough money for my services so that I will still be in business the next time a customer wants to use by services.
A couple of years ago when I heard what MHR was charging for his services, I was confident MHR would not last long. I was pretty sure that MHR was not buying business insurance, paying rent or buying a place to conduct business, paying sales taxes, income taxes, federal and state withholding taxes, buying business license, or having shipping accounts. It is very difficult to make money when you have to close the business to make a trip to town to go to the post office, UPS or FedEx shipping terminals because you do not have a shipping account. The list of overhead cost seems to be endless when you are running a legitimate business.
Businesses like MHR and mine requires the shop to be well equipped or you spend too much time traveling to other business to get you machine work or dyno testing done to evaluate you products. Matt conversed with me before he bought his dyno. I tried to discourage Matt from buying the old dyno. He did not have enough experience to understand the short comings of the piece of equipment he was about to buy. The last time I conversed with him he still had not figured out how to make it work properly on the type of engines he was building where he could get repeatable results.
I have seen the same problems some of you are facing with MHR occur countless times with new businesses. Statistics show that over 90 % of the new business fail in less than 3 years because they do not have enough money to get started, they do not know how to price there products and services and do not have the management and social skills to deal with people.
Many people start their own business because they are confident that they have unique skills or products to offer the public and want to be their own boss. Business owners that believe they will be their own boss will fail. EVERY customer that you do business with is you boss!!