[Elecraft] RE: not about technical issues (was Shipping Status Page)

[Julian G4ILO]

On 07/12/2007, R. Kevin Stover <rkstover at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Absolutely!
>
> The whining level around here is starting to get a little embarrassing.
> Some on the reflector sound like a bunch of third grade girls who've
> just found out recess is canceled.
>
> I'm still trying to figure out why people who paid VOLUNTARY deposits or
> were in "the first run", or second run, didn't pay deposits, etc, etc,
> etc, Ad nauseam, are entitled to a unit by unit run down of radios going
> out the door.
>
> I've also noticed that the most vocal production and inventory
> "specialists" aren't in any hurry to cancel their orders. What's the
> word I'm looking for...........? Never mind it would probably get me
> booted off the list.
>
> A sign of the times we live in I suppose.
>

The intemperate attitude of some people around here is starting to get
a bit irritating.

Believe me, there are a lot more people who are unhappy about being
kept waiting than you would know from this reflector. And some of the
language used in expressing this dissatisfaction privately is
sometimes a lot more blunt than has been used here, too. So let's have
less of the insults, please.

I'm sure Elecraft *is* doing the best it can to fulfil the outstanding
orders. Unfortunately the best it can do seems to be falling a little
short of what was promised. Two estimates of when my own order would
ship have come and gone and now it looks like I'll have to ask for it
to be postponed until the new year so that I will be here to receive
it. And you wonder why *I* am frustrated?

People are not cancelling their orders because they still want this
radio, the reports of those lucky few who have received them are good,
and because having waited this long it would be stupid to bail out now
when there appears to be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Even though the glimmer seems to be getting closer with appalling
slowness.

As Dave W7AQK said, venting is one way of relieving the frustration of
waiting. It's human nature. These shipping discussions are only going
to be replaced by technical ones when more people have actual K3s to
discuss and fewer people are kicking their heels waiting for them.
You'll just have to get used to it.
-- 
Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392  K3 s/n: ???
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