[Arm-netbook] "zombie" campaign

[Paul Boddie]

On Friday 9. September 2016 18.47.15 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
>  i'm thinking about it (as in, it's a really good question) that i'm
> wrestling with.   there's 800 EOMA68-A20 computer cards pledged for,
> for example, in this first batch.  should i order 200 more, make it
> 1,000, because the cost of 1,000 will be even lower cost than ordering
> 800?

Are there any differences in the way the product must be represented (and is 
regulated by laws/contracts) between the fulfilment of pledges/pre-orders and 
with regard to the matter of selling off excess stock?

I follow another crowd-funding campaign where manufacturing may have been done 
at levels to fulfil both pledges and orders from retailers, but then I start 
to wonder about things like warranties (and such): a "pledger" is getting a 
reward, but a customer through a retailer is getting a purchase that is 
presumably regulated rather differently.

Maybe excess units are required to cover a small proportion of units that 
might fail for unforeseen reasons, where you might offer to replace units at 
your discretion.

[...]

>  huge number of questions and at some point in the very near future
> i'll just have to make a decision and go with it.

Maybe another update or two to indicate some kind of deadline might solve this 
dilemma for you.

Paul