Hi Brian,
Yes, that order request was on March 9th, 2016. I considered your
suggestion, but it has been *many* years since I processed any orders
for NADSBoxes as they were not available. It appears they have not been
available since early 2015, and I have absolutly no idea where I would
start with this approach. I don't have good records about which of the
orders were processed and which were not, other than wading through
years of emails from two different servers (my PayPal account is linked
to a Hotmail account, not Club100 where the orders come in).
Looking at the orders, there have been more than 15 offical un-processed
orders for NADSBoxes between early 2015 and 2017. And I have received
other non-order-form type emails asking "Is the any chance of getting a
NADSBox". However over the past 4 years, I was not even sure I was
going to have any more availabe for sale. There was no commitment to
NADSBoxes ever being available again, only that there were no more. Is
it fair to consider a product that is out of production to be on "back
order" over a 4 year period? I don't know.
This is why I believe the only fair way to handle it is to give everyone
advance notice exactly when they will go on sale. It was either that or
put them on eBay and let the higetst bidder win. No matter how I sell
them, I can't make everyone happy:
1. Consider 4-yr old orders as "back order": Newcomers won't be happy.
2. Sell them to the first 15 people who place an order: People "back
orders" may not be happy if they don't get one.
3. Put them on eBay: Only the richest will be happy (well, and me too! ;)
I had sent an email a couple of weeks ago asking if anyone had a better
suggestion about how to deal with selling these 15 NADSBoxes in a fair
manner and recieved no responses. So I moved forward with a plan, be it
good, bad or indifferent.
Respectfully,
Ken
On 9/22/19 6:00 AM, Brian White wrote:
I placed an order for one via the club100 site a couple years ago, but
I waive it.
If you send it to me, I'll pay for it, since I placed the order in
good faith. But with only 15 available, and with me playing with
arduino code, I am fine letting someone else take "mine".
Except I bet more than 15 other people placed orders way before mine,
and by rights, if it were me, I'd be emailing the oldest 15 orders to
at least offer them dibs before giving them to anyone else.
--
bkw
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 10:21 AM James Zeun <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Ken
I'm across the pond in England and definitely interested in one,
would suck if I missed out
Many thanks
James
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> On 22 Sep 2019, at 2:35 am, Ken Pettit <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hey Gang,
>
> Well, I received the remaining components I needed to finish up
the NADSBoxes. I now have 15 units debugged, reworked, tested,
assembled and ready for shipping (see attached photo). I will
send an email this Tuesday at 11:00 am PDT (San Diego Time) with a
link to the order form.
>
> Not everyone who has indicated an interest in purchasing a
NADSBox lives in a USA timezone, so I will sell 9 units at 11:00am
to the first 9 people who order them (assuming there are 9 people
who are interested). Then I will sell the remaining 6 units to
the first orders recieved on / after Tuesday at 11:00pm PDT. This
should give anyone on the other side of the globe a chance also.
>
> The price for NADSBox is and has always been $195 USD plus
shipping ($10 domestic, $15 international).
>
> Ken
> <NADSBoxes_ready.jpg>
