Advice...

[Jannard]

I am not your father. Nor is it my intention to be. But I have some advice that is worth exactly what you are paying for it.

Be very careful with your spending. The world is in financial turmoil right now. I strongly recommend that you take care of your personal finances and tighten your belts.

If you can make a purchase that can make you some money, buy it. If you are considering making a purchase "just because"... please think twice.

Our customers are important to us. But not at the expense of their financial safety. We view RED as a long term partnership with our customers. Not a quick buck.

So be careful. We are all in this together. For the long haul.

Jim

[Alexander Nikishin]

Agreed, the economy is plummeting & the market is saturated with RED cams now with many owners charging hardly anything for their packages.

With that being said, people should really be careful with their spending not to dig themselves into a hole they may not be able to sell their way out of.

[Ryan Patch]

Hearing this from someone in a position that I would dream would make them impervious to the tough times right now is truly sobering news. Thanks for the advice- it's heeded.

I am encouraged, however, looking back on cinema in the 30's, and seeing it's social role in assuaging the country's grief. Not that I would wish the 30's on our country for filmmakers' gain, but it gives me a genuine good feeling to know that stories have helped many people through tough times, and I hope, if it comes to that, that we will be the people leading low-cost filmmaking. Budgets will be tightened and luxuries tossed, but the RED puts us in a marvelous position to make financially conscious movies in these tough times for people who want to be entertained.

[Joe D'Arcy]

I am not your father. Nor is it my intention to be. But I have some advice that is worth exactly what you are paying for it.

Jim

Thanks Jim. Your advice is worth a lot more than that.

Well said Ryan.

[Rick Darge]

Jim, respect, seriously.

Why can't GW Bush talk to us the way you do?

[Steve Freebairn]

Good advice Jim, it's worth a lot more than we're paying for it. I just checked my 401k and it's down 48.5% this year. I have tons of years ahead for it to grow back up, but I really feel for those that are close to retirement with 401ks that just nearly disappeared.

A person can only live beyond their means for so long before it'll catch up with them.

J. Reuben Clark said the following in 1938

Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation; it never visits nor travels; it takes no pleasure; it is never laid off work nor discharged from employment; it never works on reduced hours; it never has short crops nor droughts; it never pays taxes; it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused and without home and so has no repairs, no replacements, no shingling, plumbing, painting, or whitewashing; it has neither wife, children, father, mother, nor kinfolk to watch over and care for; it has no expense of living; it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

I wonder how much interest will be paid on the 700 Billion. OUCH

[Miltos Pilalitos]

So be careful. We are all in this together. For the long haul.

Thanks Jim. I think that my money will be safe with you.

[NormLi]

I too am moved by what you have just said, Jim. You're a business but yet so openly sensible.

[Roberto B]

I am not your father. Nor is it my intention to be. But I have some advice that is worth exactly what you are paying for it.

Be very careful with your spending. The world is in financial turmoil right now. I strongly recommend that you take care of your personal finances and tighten your belts.

If you can make a purchase that can make you some money, buy it. If you are considering making a purchase "just because"... please think twice.

Our customers are important to us. But not at the expense of their financial safety. We view RED as a long term partnership with our customers. Not a quick buck.

So be careful. We are all in this together. For the long haul.

Jim

there's always a further chance.. not because.. just filmmaking.. ehehehehehe isn't red a camera for filmmakers?.. free filmmakers..

[Ian Laurie]

Wow, Great respect for a business man who clearly is more concerned about his customers than trying to become wealthier. Jim, your a good man. I still want my camera because I still think it is the best solution to base my newly founded business upon. Glad to see i am not the only one worried about taking care of the people BEFORE they spend the money.