As It stands right now, no money is actually tied to these "preorders." I'm sure that in A.R's world, they serve to legitimize his claims. For a potential investor, it would be requiring to hear that he has already received 100,000 firm commitments (and actually sold fourteen 1MW plants!). As one of the sillier examples of his preorder method, let's take Wladimir as an example:
Wladimir Guglinski February 8th, 2012 at 2:59 AM Dear Mr. Andrea Rossi May I pre-order 1000 eCats? Firstly I will ask to send me 5 eCats. After selling them, I will ask more 10, and after selling them more 20… more 40… etc. Regarded Wlad Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:58:31 +0200 Subject: Re: [Vo]:100000 e-cats preordered From: [email protected] To: [email protected] What, exactly, do mean > 100,000 orders fora product that is not still on the market?Is this a proof of the products value and performances? The workld market for such a product is in the range of hundreds of millions. Peter On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Andre Blum <[email protected]> wrote: I was thinking: As a good example, the ecatnews.com headline reads: "Andrea Rossi: Almost 100,000 Domestic eCat Orders". How many of you have (subconsciously?) read this as "domestic orders for an eCat" instead of "orders for a domestic eCat"? And how many of you have assumed for other reasons that this preorder list was limited to individuals? In fact I think it is not limited to that in any way. If I were Rossi I'd carry a notebook and jot down everyone with a big mouth : individuals, small business owners, large business representitives, for the numbers they are even half-jokingly mentioning. And why not? In the end all these "orders", including my own (which I put in on the first day the list was opened, when it was priced substantially higher than it is now), are subject to that one conditional: the device should work. If *he* knows it works, he knows the condition is met, and there is no real reason not to accept these words as a preorder, even if the one who said it was not convinced himself at the time. Andre On 02/10/2012 08:38 AM, zer tte wrote: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=510&cpage=46#comment-182601 replying to someone asking how many e-cats where pre ordered already, rossi made the following comment : "about 100,000" As the pre order announce occurred about 81 days ago this gives us about 1234 pre orders everyday, well i guess rossi's mailbox must be pretty crowded these days and i think the assistant sorting out all those orders every day really deserves our gratitude for doing such an insane job. So how many of these ordered 10+ units ? everyone ? this still makes at least 123 orders to sort everyday, 100 ? we go down to 12 orders per day, seems more manageable, but anyway something seems a bit off with these numbers. -- Dr. Peter GluckCluj, Romaniahttp://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
