Do you remember this story that Rancho posted?
There is a fiery thread running at the MadOnion forums. Apparently OCZ is making their customers believe to be a major company with own manufacturing capabilities. According to Mr. Natural the author of the threat and article OCZ is nothing more than your neighbourhood computer shack. Very interesting indeed. He backs up his conclusions with photographs and registered businesses information.
Well it looked like OCZ were guilty, didn't it? Well maybe not just as OCZ now issued a press release trying to explain what lies beneath the story Hit read more for OCZ Technology Responds To Outlandish Internet Claims...
On April 30th a post was made by Timothy Sanders on the MadOnion.com internet forum, and various other hardware related internet sites. This post included pictures of the retail storefront for Central Computers, a small retail computer part outlet serving a local community of 35,000. It is located in a strip mall, the perfect location for a small retail store. These pictures were obviously taken when the facility was under renovation, as noted by the condition of the facility. The roots of our organization began with this division of the company and commenced operations in 1994. In this forum post, claims are made that these organizations are ?shell companies?. It is hard to comprehend this when the companies referenced are more than 3 and 8 years old, respectively. While the corporate structure of these companies is not broadcasted, it is public information. We have never been contacted by anyone or any organization to outline this information, either prior to, or after, this internet posting. Other negative claims are made regarding the manufacturing division. By no means do we wish to offend any of you; however, we must note that it would be impossible for anyone to manufacture products in this type of facility. We find the claims that products are manufactured in that retail environment to be preposterous. The vast majority of the OCZ Technology product line is manufactured in California and Taiwan . Various facilities are leased or rented to build products to our exacting standards. Due to the level of quality we demand for our products, not every facility can handle the levels of quality we expect for each and every product. OCZ is not the only major memory manufacturer that leases production lines for assembly. One major difference is we employ both engineering and quality control staff at the facilities we lease. There are only a small number of memory production facilities in the world; the same is true for CD-ROMs, monitors, video cards, televisions, VCRs, and conceivably every electronic product produced. By keeping expenses low, we are able to offer products at lower prices to consumers. We lease equipment, the same equipment that other major memory companies use to build their products. We will not release information regarding our competitors, and whether or not their products are manufactured on the same lines as ours.
OCZ Full Press Release Thanks to Brownie!
There is a fiery thread running at the MadOnion forums. Apparently OCZ is making their customers believe to be a major company with own manufacturing capabilities. According to Mr. Natural the author of the threat and article OCZ is nothing more than your neighbourhood computer shack. Very interesting indeed. He backs up his conclusions with photographs and registered businesses information.
Well it looked like OCZ were guilty, didn't it? Well maybe not just as OCZ now issued a press release trying to explain what lies beneath the story Hit read more for OCZ Technology Responds To Outlandish Internet Claims...
On April 30th a post was made by Timothy Sanders on the MadOnion.com internet forum, and various other hardware related internet sites. This post included pictures of the retail storefront for Central Computers, a small retail computer part outlet serving a local community of 35,000. It is located in a strip mall, the perfect location for a small retail store. These pictures were obviously taken when the facility was under renovation, as noted by the condition of the facility. The roots of our organization began with this division of the company and commenced operations in 1994. In this forum post, claims are made that these organizations are ?shell companies?. It is hard to comprehend this when the companies referenced are more than 3 and 8 years old, respectively. While the corporate structure of these companies is not broadcasted, it is public information. We have never been contacted by anyone or any organization to outline this information, either prior to, or after, this internet posting. Other negative claims are made regarding the manufacturing division. By no means do we wish to offend any of you; however, we must note that it would be impossible for anyone to manufacture products in this type of facility. We find the claims that products are manufactured in that retail environment to be preposterous. The vast majority of the OCZ Technology product line is manufactured in California and Taiwan . Various facilities are leased or rented to build products to our exacting standards. Due to the level of quality we demand for our products, not every facility can handle the levels of quality we expect for each and every product. OCZ is not the only major memory manufacturer that leases production lines for assembly. One major difference is we employ both engineering and quality control staff at the facilities we lease. There are only a small number of memory production facilities in the world; the same is true for CD-ROMs, monitors, video cards, televisions, VCRs, and conceivably every electronic product produced. By keeping expenses low, we are able to offer products at lower prices to consumers. We lease equipment, the same equipment that other major memory companies use to build their products. We will not release information regarding our competitors, and whether or not their products are manufactured on the same lines as ours.
OCZ Full Press Release Thanks to Brownie!
