I’m definitely interested in buying one!  I’ll use it with my Olivetti ... how 
to pay!?

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> On 22.09.2019, at 16:30, Ken Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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]> wrote:
>>> Thanks Ken
>>> 
>>> I'm across the pond in England and definitely interested in one, would suck 
>>> if I missed out
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Many thanks
>>> James
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>> > On 22 Sep 2019, at 2:35 am, Ken Pettit <[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>
> 

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