craigix said:
Awesome, another armchair inventor.
Like I've said before, put your cards on the table before you come out with this guff in future. You have *no* idea what you are talking about, I'd love to see the flip side and see you make something like the Pandora. I'd love to see how all your beliefs on these things fall apart as you try them and they don't work.
Dude, what's with the hostility? I'm on your side! I even said that I trust in your judgment! I believe you have reasons for what you've done, reasons I don't want to know because it isn't my place, as a consumer, to know. I don't think anything I've said warrants such an attack.
You say I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I have done nothing but reiterate the advice of every "how to do business in China" website and video, including that one which you've linked to several times. If *I* have no idea what I'm talking about, then these websites and videos must therefore have no idea what they're talking about.
The advice was always simple: when doing business in China, GO THERE, at least once to ensure that something is actually happening. This has been repeated time and time and time again. I have not found a single website giving advice on how to do business in China that has not said something like that.
You did not follow that advice. I trust that you have reasons for that. If saying "all advice I've read says making a short trip to China is the best way to guarantee work gets done" makes me an "armchair inventor" that has no idea what I'm talking about, then dash me against the rocks because there is NO way anyone could possibly give you any kind of advice or feedback without you considering them an "armchair inventor".
I hold two beliefs that you're insulting here:
1) If there is any chance that 2000 pounds for two tickets and accommodations for a week in China could have saved months of development time, it would have been 2000 pounds well spent. How much did you lose when the first nub company went under? How much to the "expert" that was supposed to fix the wifi? It seems rather silly to have balked at such a relatively low price to fix what could have been the biggest cause of delays. But again, I'm trusting in your judgment, and only repeating what has been stated many times on other websites and videos, and telling you how your operation looks FROM THE OUTSIDE simply because we don't have all the information that you do, nor do I want it.
2) The Texas company doing board population will never be a bottle neck. If you had gotten the cases 6 months ago and told them you needed boards ASAP, I firmly believe they'd have been able to stick to the 500 per week EvilDragon originally quoted those many moons ago. I still hold this belief. When the cases show up, and you call the factory in Texas and tell them you need boards populated, they will start shipping them to you as fast as they can get nubs. The nubs may become the unfortunate bottleneck, with new testing and however many they need to reproduce, but that again is information we don't know, nor do I want to know. It'll happen when it happens, but without those cases it means nothing.
Seriously, it's well known that you're quick to defend yourself, sometimes almost violently so, but there was no attack in what I said. I talked about advice I gave a long, long time ago based on advice from other sources, and tried to explain why others were giving the same advice now, and you threw back insults at me. It's like you didn't even try to read and understand what I wrote, you just saw someone who had an idea (with no regard to where that idea came from or when it was first stated) that was different from what you had done and jumped straight into angry defense mode.
