ED, I share your anxieties and frustrations with the board company, and you've already been kind enough to answer one of my previous questions on this topic. But when exactly are we going to know if the board company has met its target? When the nubs are ready and shipped over to the board company?
We have some contacts from community users here who are just living around the corner, so we will probably send someone soon to check out.
Verbal contracts can be just as binding, depending on the situation and context. If OPT can prove that the board company was making false claims to keep their business when OPT could have been researching other companies instead, they just may have a case.
Of course, any lawsuit they might make is almost guaranteed to cause nothing but trouble and probably more delays, so I don't think that would be a wise course of action, but it's there in case things get really bad.
Yes, we got eMails from them which tell us how many boards are finished.
A lawsuit would take ages though and probably completely halt the production, so we'd rather keep it going and look for an alternative company (which we seem to have found).
Once everything is setup, we can transfer the remaining parts from the old company to them.
The new company has just a bit less than 300 employees and a few production lines, so they're way bigger and should be able to do the job reliable and fast.
It's such a shame that small companies get put at the bottom of the pile. Obviously it makes sense for the production companies to pamper the bigger paying clients to keep their business, but it doesn't make sense to annoy any of your customers if you can help it.
I guess this kind of situation is why there aren't billions of OPTs out there. It takes superhuman stamina to push on through all of these speed bumps, stamina and a raging fire set under your nethers.
Yes, it's really hard for us.
We're currently all a bit depressed, Craig has raised blood pressure and my heart rate is currently about 100 the whole day long.
It's hell we're going through - but we will continue and finish this.
It's sad to see so many problems with companies you pay for, but we're really hoping on resolving this and getting everything to work properly with alternatives.
As long as the community supports us, we can do it
