As some of you know enertion is in the process of restructuring how we do business and we are putting a big focus towards our complete electric skateboard offering, the RAPTOR 2.
In the near future we will only be selling a select range of DIY parts - Therefore we need to clear out all of the stock that is sitting on the shelves!
sad to see you guys getting out of the parts business, any particular reason? Is it just the number of people building boards is way smaller than people buying ready to ride boards?
I think by stoping selling parts they will try to make the business of diy electric skateboards less popular as it will make esk8 brands became more profitable with this decisions, am I right? It is just a thought…
There was a time when Enertion was the domininate due to the lack of options out there for DIYers. His motor mounts or TorqueBoards motor mounts were the only real options. Now, there’s so many options. There blueprints for at least 4 different motor mount designs on this forum that anyone can cut from a cnc machine. There’s many options for buying one’s already cut too. There was a need at one point for Enertion to supply parts to the community, because without it, most everyone would have struggled to build a board.
But now that the market has become more diversified, this community will do fine without Enertion selling every little part. He’s smart to move into the complete market, as he can control the customers use of his products more so. Right now, it’s hard for him to look at a customer who has a broken product and determine if it’s his fault, or his customers fault that it’s broken. With completes, a VESC blows up, and he can say it was likely not the customer, unless they did some setting changes that were not recommended. I believe in the end, he will have less complaints and less replacements, resulting higher profit margins. He also doesn’t even need to touch your products anymore, as they will be assembled in china. This will save a huge amount of time and energy, which he will redirect to what he’s best at doing, marketing.
It’s not really hard to see why he’s going this way. If anything, the parts market with benefit, as customers will turn to other sellers on the market.
As long as this forum keeps running, I don’t think there will be any long term effects on the DIY scene. Enertion is now one of many providers of DIY parts. It will only make more room for others to fill in the void.
On the other hand, I think more Enertion completes will be a welcome addition to the market. There’s not a lot of great options out there. The Raptor is a nice board, but with anything, people have personal preferences. If Enertion focused on completes, perhaps we could have a larger variety of boards with the same quality of the Raptor.