Neo 1973 is sold out...
Tim Knapp
duffyd at kokorice.org
Tue Aug 7 10:00:09 CEST 2007
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 08:18 +0100, Justyn Butler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I contacted OpenMoko web shop about my order and quickly got a
> response saying that they would process my order within the week.
>
> Then just now I received my "you've been charged" email, which is
> great!
>
> So if anyone else is still worrying about the status of their order, I
> strongly suggest you email the web shop and they will put your fears
> to rest.
I too emailed the web shop (and a FIC employee whom I saw popup on the
community list) and got an instant reply + quite a number of
correspondences since (and a your credit card has been charged
message!).
Go OpenMoko!
-from an eager OpenMoko junkie
>
> cheers,
> Justyn
>
>
>
> On 07/08/07, Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd.
> <b.zdanowski at autoguard.pl> wrote:
>
> Ian Stirling pisze:
>
> > No, it's not 'sold out since yesterday'.
> > It's 'sold out since several weeks ago'.
> > They had a certain amount of phones to ship - 500 to 1000,
> > and they knew at least when the next lot of phones could be
> > possibly available.
> > They had someone working through a pile of phones, shipping
> > them out.
> > It does not take a genius to work out that with 2000+
> > orders, that they are not going to be able to meet orders.
> > This needs to be communicated to potential developers in a
> > timely fashion, not once the guy sticking the labels on
> > realises that he's out of boxes.
>
> I do agree with Ian. My ticket no was over 3500 after 4 days
> from OpenMoko Shop opening. I belive that it has a least
> doubled. So as soon they received over 1000 extra orders they
> should run next batch at Factory. But we can assume that they
> didn't.
> I agree that OpenMoko is very important project and we all
> have to be patient but there are some basic market rules that
> have to be obeyed. Some of people who are not patient enough
> will just spend their money on iPhone or other concurrent
> product and will leave OpenMoko. Still besides OpenMoko's
> euphoria there's a great commercial deal for FIC which is
> still *the only one* OpenMoko's platform manufacturer. And FIC
> should have more respect to people who are involved in
> OpenMoko and still interrested in buying their phone.
> Other aspect is that the more NEO's will spread throught the
> world the faster OpenMoko will be developed.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Bartlomiej Zdanowski
> Programmer
> Product Research & Development Department
> AutoGuard & Insurance Ltd.
>
> Omulewska 27 street
> 04-128 Warsaw
> Poland
> phone +48 22 611 69 23
> www.autoguard.pl
>
>
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