Piper Flyer's Forum sucks. Little activity. Takes forever to get a single response most of the time. Their magazine is great. PiperOwner.org has low-but-consistant activity and it's all Piper-centric which is nice. I was on PiperForum.com and that Canadian moderator really ****ed me off one day, has zero sense of humor and come off like Ferris Buellers teacher most of the time. I think he is a member here too. I have not been back, they locked it down for awhile trying to make it a pay to play site and more people left. They re-opened it up to public view, but the content is slow and growing mold. Sorta the "get woke, go broke" thing happened I think. I'm done with them though.
As far as the group buy goes, we are gathering "wish lists" and the main guy at Piper Owners Group will physically present it to John, the owner of K2U. They know each other. So the conversation is already on the table. He does not run sales but the chance to push some order volume has his attention. All they stuff they make will be discounted. He said margin is tight on 3rd party stuff, but he will see what he can do as most products are around 10% margin so I would not expect much more than a point or two, if any. Not enough meat on the bone. On his parts, he has plenty of margin to work with us. We are looking to bring the orders to him I believe in early January and if we get terms, I suspect a group discount code will be given.
Fingers crossed!