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