Hi Doug,
We were taking great pains -not- to give this impression at Dayton,
since we were already into the 2nd run. I apologize if there was
confusion on this issue.
I am very clear on this and made sure we kept everyone informed of what
we were doing. Prior to Dayton we had already changed the web order form
to reflect this change and we had also noted from the first day of
orders that deposit priority for low serial numbers -only- applied to
the first run numerous times on the reflector.
We absolutely did not want to penalize those who ordered during the
first run without deposits. If we had continued moving later orders with
deposits (received after the first run was full around May 14th) ahead
of the earlier orders received -without- deposits, those early
deposit-less orders would have been bumped well into next year. Not a
fair thing for those people. Basically we took orders, both with and
without deposits, until we filled the first production run. At that
point we set up that groups to ship first from the deposit group and
then from the non-deposit group. After that, all orders will be shipped
in order received.
A side note - All deposits are always refundable (though we take a 3%
hit from the CC company on each one.) We will gladly refund a deposit to
anyone who asks.
73, Eric WA6HHQ
(Now back to testing and packing K3s! :-)
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DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
I ordered my first K3 at Dayton 2007 and I was certainly under the
very clear impression that those who placed a deposit would be given
priority over those who did not. I happened to pay in full.
Yes, it does seem that the rules changed somewhere in mid-stream (an
unannounced change). I know that I am not the only one who felt this
way because others who ordered at Dayton and did not place a deposit
felt that having to wait until the "end of the run" was fine with
them.
I suppose that this entire concept never made a whole lot of sense to
me because "why should Run #1 guys w/o a deposit receive priority over
Run #2 guys who did include a desposit?" Now I know why I was
confused about that "logic"....because those of us ordered at Dayton
were operating under an incorrect pretense.
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