[sammyg2]

Yup, happens all the time but it ain't right and I don't have to like it.

Several years back we had a compressor beta analysis machine made by Dynalco.
It was older but worked well.
Their competition was a company called windrock, basically only two shows in town.
So Windrock buys dynalco, and declares the dynalco equipment obsolete, everybody gotta buy $70k worth of Windrock stuff.

I said nope, not gonna do it.
Some of the dynalco techs who were laid off by Windrock started a little service company so I had them service the equipment.
Worked out well.