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.
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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