I appreciate the fact that they receive many tweets about when this thing will be available and simply ignore everyone...nice. To think I'll give them money, makes me sick. I'm forced to, since no one else is selling a product like this but... goddamn if I don't hope the chinese reverse engineer and mass produce this in the future. That' ll teach them some customer support .
Hello,
I think we gave a lot of information about when NEOSD PRO is going to be ready and its easy to get an idea about the status of the product. But i will try to explain it again :
We try to avoid presales as much as possible.
You came here pissed about us not opening sales and taking your money, now imagine we opened the sales back in june, took your money and you still don´t have your payed NEOSD PRO.
After Super SD System 3, we came to some conclusions :
- We can´t handle more than one product release at the same time.
- We can´t be answering people about when are we going to ship, just cause we don´t know, cause it depends on a huge list of providers. For neosd pro this is : pcb factory (to produce pcbs), smt factory (to solder chips on pcbs), 6 different chip providers and more than 30 different chips manufacturers, plus shells factory.
So when we anounced neosd pro we said : pcbs are ready, product (hardware side) is fnished and software is almost done. We will start working on production once we are up to date with super sd system 3 and so we did.
This is actually what happened, in May we started to source chips, and you know what ? We have everything in stock here except the SRAMS that will arrive next week. Why we dindn´t bought the srams before ? cause the delivery times for those chips was 18 weeks, so we placed an order and just wait. We got confirmation from the supplier that the packet was already shipped and will be here next week BTW.
So whats remaining as today ? Srams to arrive, shells to arrive. PCB factory to send pcbs to SMT factory and SMT factory to give us a soldering slot and solder the pcbs
When are we going to start selling ? We don´t know but everything is shorted and it should be be soon.
About your sugestion of the Chineses stealing/cloning our work : i could tell you some reasons why regular neosd hasn´t been cloned and why everdrives have been.
One is the investment required to do such thing, that could lead this conversation to the investment that was required to develop NEOSD PRO and if the risk/investment is worth, if this is a good business at all.
Somedays i came to the conclusion that we are the only fools that are not taking money from theyr customers with a 3d render and a pile of promises much before to have a working product to sell. Maybe we are wrong and we should change the way we finance our projects, just take money in advance, develop the product with calmn and zero risk about a competor releasing a product before yours and you lossing your time and money invested there. This would allow us for sure to show everyday what we are working at and work with less preasure
Anyways, glad to see that people are excited about NEOSD PRO. No one is going to be dissapointed with the final result, believe me.
Alex,