New email from craig, watch out


HelenF said:
The two batteries I got with my CC unit a few months back seem to give less than 5 hours of gaming each (800Mhz, wifi off). The main website claims 10 hours so that's a bit weak.
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Very weak.  You can normally get 12/15 hours during medium-weight use.
 
They should be OK after a few full discharge/charge cycle. My oldest battery is still very strong although very used.
 
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I tried that. Maybe old batteries that were actively used are better than batteries that were sitting around unused for a long time.
 
Linux-SWAT said:
Looking here, i found something very surprising:

http://gbax.com/cgi-bin/lateststock.pl?usbpc

MK808B
Probably the best current ARM PC-on-a-Stick. Dual core A9 with 1GB of RAM. Micro SD + wifi. Plays anything you throw at it, superb media + game system. Has USB + BT for controls. Coincidently our Pandora2 & iCP2 test SoC.
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(Yes, this really means you can buy an iCP2, solder a few wires here and there to attach the screen, bigger flash, memory, audio, whatnot and yay say hello to a P2... judging from this they both have the same SOC, right? Of course right!)

Seriously, how gbax.com looks like is already an incentive to order from ED. What it contains is often worth a giggle, when you stop to really think about things. And it's not like Craig hasn't been given advice on both of these issues on this forum too...

Too bad throwing information like the above to the wild is just confusing to anyone who doesn't bother to read these forums carefully. My nick here stems partially from this very issue...
 
He should already have been bankrupt and his inventory should have been sold and shipped to ED as part of the bankruptcy process years ago. I guess what is now happening is illegal so maybe force him to deliver the Pandora's or press charges.  
 
All I know is that I am disgusted by the whole thing.  I got my Pandora secondhand, and it is a wonderful device, but when I think of all the people who either had to wait so long to get theirs or now will not get one at all, makes me sick.  The only reasons I keep mine is because it does what I want from a handheld and EvilDragon seems like he is doing everything in his power to rectify the issues.  Otherwise I would sell mine and either go with a GCW Zero or a chinese android handheld.  Back when I got mine I had faith that Craig would do the right thing, or at least try.  This makes it look like he is a con artist.

I will prolly be selling my ICP2 upon arrival, assuming I even get the thing.
 
Any news on how many repaired CC boards were shipped to Craig? That figure should give some kind of indication as whether or not there is something fishy going on here.

Didn't get the email so I've no idea if the units being sold via email are the same as those being advertised on GBAX, from what I can see though, there is only one unit for sale on GBAX that has a fully working PCB.
 
I guess when you file for bankruptcy, your company is frozen, and as much money as possible is harvested from the company to pay as many outstanding debts as possible. So I guess, before filing for bankruptcy, if you sell everything you have of any value (tied to the company) and then pay yourself salary/bonus/etc. then you get to pocket the money rather than have it used to pay off debts. I am not sure if that is how it works, or if it is legal, or whether this has even happened, but there seems to be some sort of logic in here somewhere.
 
I think harvesting as much as you can before filling bankrupcy is still a problem when you KNOW you will fill bankrupcy... but it's probably not so easy to prove that...
 
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elwing said:
I think harvesting as much as you can before filling bankrupcy is still a problem when you KNOW you will fill bankrupcy... but it's probably not so easy to prove that...
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It very much depends on what you use the funds for. 

If you use it to pay a taxbill for that company you're fine. If you funnel everything to your private account you could have just made the fatal mistake that allows your debtors to go for your property outside of your ltd.

As long as no one is willing (like me) to spend the time and money it would take to take Craig down he can pretty much do as he pleases. Like selling a unit to someone else that he had already sold to an original pre order who would be willing to accept it now whilst in the meantime happily letting his business partner pay from his own profits for that same pre order to get one. 

I know the mods have forbidden drawing conclusions based on those facts but I think anyone with half a brain can suss out what I think that makes Craig so I won't spell it out.

Of topic and completely unrelated I suddenly had to think about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs
 
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Linux-SWAT said:
mcobit said:
Old news.
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 Ah ?
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As in, he's been selling half-working Pandoras on his shop and he's actually been doing it for a long time. I too have been wondering why he wasn't offering them to his queue for free. The answer I got from Craig (many months ago) was that he was that he couldn't give these to pre-orderers and instead the money would go directly towards funding new Pandoras manufactured by ED.

I'll leave it to everyone else to argue the likelihood that he's now using all or even any of the money in this fashion.
 
I didn't get any money yet and I see no reason why he would not be allowed to ASK and OFFER his remaining preorders a unit with small defects.


Sure, he can't simply send them as new, fully working units, but when he asks, why should that be illegal?
 
Enh, Craig has often talked about policy he has to follow for this or that that struck me as funny. Like how he must accept returns plus refunds without question even years after the purchase was made, or how he can't give the preorder list to ED. Maybe there is actual legal precedent for these things but they seem like small infractions compared to ignoring years old unfulfilled preorders...
 
He's sold a number of working Pandora's that he repaired or got working somehow, he is also selling semi working ones now.

His reason if I remember correctly , was that not enough people wanted an original CC Pandora when they did the survey. That is the reason he gave for selling these on Gbax.  I remember thinking at the time that people probably didn't choose a CC Pandora because they didn't know there were CC Pandora's that he was sitting on (from his returns box). That announcement of surplus Pandoras came later.   If people actually knew he had refurb pandoras that he could offer , I'm sure people would have jumped at it in the survey. As it stood, the survey sounded like you would be waiting a while for one.
 
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