--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 9. September 2016 18.47.15 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> i'm thinking about it (as in, it's a really good question) that i'm >> wrestling with. there's 800 EOMA68-A20 computer cards pledged for, >> for example, in this first batch. should i order 200 more, make it >> 1,000, because the cost of 1,000 will be even lower cost than ordering >> 800? > > Are there any differences in the way the product must be represented (and is > regulated by laws/contracts) between the fulfilment of pledges/pre-orders and > with regard to the matter of selling off excess stock? quite probably! certainly, pledges are "gifts" - there's no warranty, there's no contract of sale, they're *definitely* not "orders". that's very very important even in light of the fact that i'm here on a 90-day visa waiver! customs declaration *specifically* asked, "are you bringing in product for the solicitation of orders" and the *only* reason i was able to say *NO* to that was precisely because this is a gift-economy-based crowd-funding campaign. > I follow another crowd-funding campaign where manufacturing may have been done > at levels to fulfil both pledges and orders from retailers, but then I start > to wonder about things like warranties (and such): a "pledger" is getting a > reward, but a customer through a retailer is getting a purchase that is > presumably regulated rather differently. yeahyeah. the moment that for example chris, my sponsor, starts *selling* through *his* web site (which he can now do as the contract period with crowdsupply is over), that *definitely* qualifies as "sales" > Maybe excess units are required to cover a small proportion of units that > might fail for unforeseen reasons, where you might offer to replace units at > your discretion. good point. > [...] > >> huge number of questions and at some point in the very near future >> i'll just have to make a decision and go with it. > > Maybe another update or two to indicate some kind of deadline might solve this > dilemma for you. ... or i could just wing it :) no, can't do that - too much involved (and it would jeapordise / risk the goal of reaching mass-volume levels). i'll start to put in costs / quotes as they come in, and then all this can be assessed properly. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
