Units leaving the warehouses!

Funds are being confirmed and units are leaving the warehouses faster than anticipated.

Hawaii, Texas, Florida, California, Utah, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, and lots of UK folks...

At this rate our pilot run stock will be depleted in less than a week so we're now getting quotes for PCB assembly in Korea. Best case scenario is a 400% price increase (and they're doing us a favor), plus we have to mount all the through hole components ourselves... but at least this way we won't have to bring a sleeping bag to the assembly plant to oversee their work for 3 days and have a nervous breakdown trying to prevent mistakes like last time!

The through hole components are very easy to solder on, it's the 40+ surface mount ones that have 0.5mm pitch pins and take forever to hand assemble so at least we want those taken care of.

Unfortunately there is a lead time of at the very least 4 weeks to get more radio components (again they're doing us a favor normally it's 3 months). Hopefully we won't find shortages of anything else.

We're also attempting the first Canadian transaction and there's space for ONE brave Australian volunteer to attempt a transaction with us. We're tired of calling your governments! We'll take one order and send a unit - if it doesn't go through we'll refund the "volunteer" and try to get it back.

Comments

By dreamloverlabs at 2011-03-09 23:00:22 Reply

User feedback:

In reading your blog on 3/9/2011 you state that supplies will run out in less than a week and "now getting quotes for PCB assembly in Korea. Best case scenario is a 400% price increase ". Are you saying that the price will go up from $1,400 to $5,600?

Answer: No, the PCB assembly is one of our costs not everything is increasing 400%. We'll keep the price the same if at all possible.

By Lorraine Oliver at 2011-03-15 09:20:03 Reply

With limited life on the custom battery for the device, can you let us know how replacements are obtained? How are they ordered and what is the price?

By dreamloverlabs at 2011-03-15 10:22:55 Reply

The remote's battery is rechargeable, the receiver's batteries need to be replaced and will be on sale on this site for around 10$. They last a long time, up to 3 months.
You won't need to do a wire transfer for the batteries, they are not adult items so we can sell them through paypal, moneybookers or whatever else.