Knut - A friend got an IC-7610 and waited about ONE YEAR... they obviously did not have thousands on the shelf when it was announced.
Dave - K9FN On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:12 PM ab2tc <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Well, isn't this fairly typical behavior by Elecraft on a major new product > introduction? Get used to it. Sure, Icom and the other big two probably > have > thousands of units on the shelf when they make a product announcements, but > they have a different business model. > > AB2TC - Knut > > > Hi Jim, > > Not broken down by prepaid levels but they did say in the Early > Notification email this: > > Deposit Preorders will be shipped from the first production run in the > order > received, followed by non-deposit orders. > > So I wasn't sitting at the computer when the announcement hit but was > about 18 hours into the 24 hour window. So I had to look at the fully > prepaid > order as nothing more than a blatant bribe to move up a few notches on the > shipping list and the free shipping. > > It may not be all inclusive but the order number for SN 45 was two > minutes from N9PY's order and mine was 127 later but probably was not all > KPA1500's or all of the KPA1500s. As they said other orders were received > by > other means too. > > On Feb 6th Eric said they were "shipping KPA1500 for several days > now". > So after almost a month there are about 50 units shipped, most likely > including > engineering units . Not impressive or encouraging. > > I'm not an Elecraft basher I'm Elecraft from 160 meters to 432MHZ. > > 73. > Bob > K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) & k2TKR > > K2, KX3, K3. KPA500, KAT500. P3, KRC, 3 XV's and more. > > <snip > </quote> > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
