GMC takeover!

[Dean]

Ermm what happened to the GMC website?
http://www.gmcompany.com

Looks like its been taken over!
:confused: :confused:

[BobR]

Looks OK to me.

[Grunt]

They look like they're a bunch of Winkos.

[echnidna]

velly interesting; wink wink, nudge nudge

[craigb]

Do you think their logo has been hacked ?

[bitingmidge]

I think the heading should be GMC take over (the world) note that there are jobs available in North America now... soon we'll be able to buy GMC stuff through Lee Valley!!

Cheap junk with great service!! Now there's a turnip for the books!

P
:D

[simon c]

I think the heading should be GMC take over (the world) note that there are jobs available in North America now... soon we'll be able to buy GMC stuff through Lee Valley!!

Cheap junk with great service!! Now there's a turnip for the books!

P
:D
midge - your browser hasn't refreshed and you are seeing the normal gmc website.

Revisit the gmc website and pres ctrl-f5, and you should get the winko website instead.

[bitingmidge]

Oooops!

Thanks Simon!! So who hasn't been paying their bills??

P :D

[craigb]

Revisit the gmc website and pres ctrl-f5, and you should get the winko website instead.

Did that. Didn't make any difference.

What's a winko ? :confused:

[Wayne Davy]

I'm not getting winked at either (must be too ugly) ;)

[echnidna]

if you say so we'll all agree just to be nice.

[simon c]

It looks to me like they have a problem on their server. Some of us will be seeing a cached version from up to a day ago and some of us will see the new version.

I think winko may be the company that makes gmc tools

[Wayne Davy]

if you say so we'll all agree just to be nice.
:D

[Gumby]

Our Visions

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

to promote quality merchandies

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

and check out the Minatek link - that's a serious cyclone dust extractor :D :eek:

[Wayne Davy]

Gumby

Post the link as I cannot see it :(

[Barry_White]

Try the link on the first post.

[bitingmidge]

Having poked around the site a bit, I post the following as a matter of interest, not complaint or bitching!!

Reading between the lines (because I can't read the characters on them!), the Taiwanese parent company has equity in a factory development in China to take advantage of lower costs.

The snip is from one of the pages, exchange rate today is roughly 400yuan to $60.00 AUD.

Anyone have a factory for rent at 5-8y per square metre?

Cheers,

P

[Wayne Davy]

Bazza,

I dont see the Winko (whatever) link/logo only GMC even after refreshing five odd times. Just wanted to see the Minatek link Gumby mentioned.

[echnidna]

Winko seems like a monument to some corporate ego
I wonder how long afore GMC brand vanishes totally as winko don't seem interested in maintaining the established brand.
So they start fresh in the market with an unfamilar name like winko.
Doesn't seem prudent business practise to abandon the GMC goodwill.
maybe the name oughta be wanko.

[Wayne Davy]

The snip is from one of the pages, exchange rate today is roughly 400yuan to $60.00 AUD.

Anyone have a factory for rent at 5-8y per square metre?
OR have to only pay Tech's 800 yuan or $120 per month!!!!

[craigb]

To my limited knowledge, GMC is an Oz company isn't it?

Didn't one of the director's buy his ride in the "celebrety" race at the recent Melbourne GP?

Of course all their stuff is made in China. You sure can't make a $39 router in Oz (or any developed country for that matter).

[Gumby]

Gumby

Post the link as I cannot see it :(

http://www.gmcompany.com/minatek.htm

[Wayne Davy]

Hmmm.. Just get a 404 error - no page found. I take it you guys are using Firefox or something other than MS IE. Must change this PC over sometime.

[craigb]

No it doesn't work with FF either Wayne. I think they are just jerking our chains

[Dean]

Seems to be fixed for me now anyway ;)

[Harry72]

that's a serious cyclone dust extractor :D :eek: Thats only a liddle one, at work our dust extractor fan is about 3 storys high and the outlet is 206m high in the air, were a bit worried about running 6" ducting on it!
Id take some pic's, but they wont allow us to take camera's in...

[simon c]

As I posted earlier, I think the problem was just a server administration one and their is some replationship between winko and gmc, either:
winko is the company who make the gmc tools
winko are either parent comapny of gmc,
winko and gmc are both owned by the same person
or maybe just their websites are both hosted on the same server and it defaults to winko.com if gmcompany.com is unavailable.

Personally, I think the same bloke is also an owner (part-owner?) of gmc - the main reason I say that, is because a whois of www.gmcompany.com gives Anker Hung of Winko as the registered owner of the domain. He also owns a number of other australian companies including minatek with the big dust extractor.

The reason why some of us saw the change and some didn't is due to the ISP we use and not whether we use IE or whatever. Some ISPs cache websites locally on their own servers for a number of days for performance purposes and display that rather than getting the information from the real server every time. ctrl-f5 will flush it if the website is cached locally on your pc.

The winko website is still available at:
http://www.winko.com/

The dust extractor is here:
http://www.winko.com/minatek.htm - ano

[bitingmidge]

Well this'll be a fun post to watch for a bit....

Hey little lumber 16/22, why have you used a seppo term for wood in your nick, and what is a piece of **** used for??

Cheers,

P
:D :D :D

[Wongo]

Hey you blokes.

LEAVE MY UNCLE ALONE! :D

[Forest Gump]

Leave littlelumber22 alone, he has grown up by 6 digits.


Just a bit of advice, never buy cheap battery drills. You might get away with cheap 240 volt equipment if your lucky but not battery drills.
Daniel

[silentC]

Leave littlelumber22 alone, he has grown up by 6 digits.
Jeez, I'd hate to see what he was like before.

[bitingmidge]

Pity he didn't use all his digits to take his GMC stuff back and claim on their incredible 2 year guarantee....

Maybe his other four melted off???

P
:D :D :D :D

[silentC]

shhh Craig, he's sleeping. You don't want him waking up all cranky, do you?

[Kris.Parker1]

This thread is geting very narky now isn't it...

[silentC]

firing back at him isn't going to do it
Most of the shots are probably over his head anyway, but what the hell, it's fun!!

[Grunt]

Made me feel better. :D

[bitingmidge]

And it keeps our minds off the problems of the world!!

P
:D :D :D

[Gumby]

And it keeps our minds off the problems of the world!!

P
:D :D :D

The world has problems :confused: :confused: :confused:

When did that happen and why wasn't I told. Oh No, now I'm depressed :( :( :(

[simon c]

Well as I don't know you and have never had any contact with you, I'm at a loss to understand what you've got against me.

However, as you probably have the attention span of a gnat, I expect you'll go away soon.

In the meantime, I'll just ignore you.

How's that?

I don't expect that you'll survive anyway, so run along and play now little boy.

yes craig, it's impressive how you can be a midget dick and the biggest tool at the same time

[Slavo]

It might be Warney responding to your other post Craig -Portait of a Legend (in his own lunchbox)

[Wongo]

Where is Zed? I am sure he will sort him out. :D

[Sturdee]

We don't need Zed, the wanker's post is already gone. :D :D :D


Peter.

[RETIRED]

Littlelumber.

We do not denigrate other members on this board.

Behave yourself. :mad:

[Christopha]

OH YEAH??????

, now I loves ya dearly me old mate BUT..... you're too short, you need a haircut, you drink too much, your dog has bad breath and your wife is too good for you..... how's THAT for denigration pal?

Oh, I meant to ask, any chance of a sub till payday? ;) ;) ;)

[echnidna]

Hey you blokes.

LEAVE MY UNCLE ALONE! :D

So who's your uncle?

[RETIRED]

OH YEAH??????

, now I loves ya dearly me old mate BUT..... you're too short, you need a haircut, you drink too much, your dog has bad breath and your wife is too good for you..... how's THAT for denigration pal?

Oh, I meant to ask, any chance of a sub till payday? ;) ;) ;)
you're too shortJust wide thats all.

you need a haircut, Is it Christmas already?

you drink too much, Tea?

your dog has bad breath. She died.

your wife is too good for you I second that one. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Oh, I meant to ask, any chance of a sub till payday? HAHAHANo.

[craigb]

It might be Warney responding to your other post Craig -Portait of a Legend (in his own lunchbox)

I wanted to give you a greenie for that Slavo, but the board wouldn't let me :(

Now that you mention it, it's got Warney's fingerprints all over it. :eek:

Juvenile spite written as a text message. :rolleyes:

Just goes to show, you never know who's watching :eek:

:D :D

Cheers
Craig

[jchappo]

Good to see the Original Oz GMC site is back on line