Adrian Ives wrote: > It's a bit of an over-simplification to lay the reasoning for my > decision to withdraw solely on the lack of interest. It has more to do > with simple economics. It costs money to buy the stock to build the > units. As I have said before about the Ser-USB, unless the stock can be > bought in bulk, it is not possible to obtain worthwhile discounts. This > makes the product more expensive and thus reduces the likely number of > sales.
Seems to be too late now, but this really sounds like a perfect case for Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/ It's a crowd-funding site, people can say "hey, I have this cool project and if 100 people pledge to spend 50€ on it, it will be built. If not, no money is lost". Most projects are relatively small, but recently a computer game even pulled in funds of several million dollars this way... Not sure if a QL product can pull it off, but if a "phone-soap" (that's actually the combination of a phone charger with a UV-lamp for killing germs) can pull in $63.000 of funds, everything seems possible ;-) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/588318042/phonesoap-simultaneously-charge-and-sanitize-your?ref=card Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
