[Elecraft] KAT500

[Phil Hystad]

The fact that the item has not started shipping is indeed good "shipping status" information.  You must include all the possible transition states for the status otherwise the information is incomplete.


On Jul 23, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Rick Prather wrote:

> I guess they figure that there is no "Shipping Status" if the item hasn't started shipping yet.
> 
> 
> On 7/23/2012, at 12:45 , Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I know that.  But, ease of use comes from association.  Where do you find the "status"?  Answer:  on the "status" page.  Sure, also having it on the order page is good too.
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Rick Prather wrote:
>> 
>>> And the order page shows a target shipping date for the KAT500 of August 15.
>>> 
>>> Rick
>>> K6LE
>>> 
>>> On 7/23/2012, at 7:38 , Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> My fault -- I see that the shipping status page does include the KX3.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 23, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Phil Hystad wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The Elecraft web site has a shipping status page that contains all kinds of useful information about the shipping status of each product and even components of products.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But, it is missing information about the new items like KX3 and KAT500.  Maybe Eric can get the time to add these to that shipping status table.  Useful information would be like for the KAT500, planned shipping date of August 15, 2012.  For the KX3 it might be useful to know the estimated backlog.  Backlog can be reported in days or weeks to erase the backlog given current estimated new orders versus the time to process each order.  Indeed, maybe some queueing theory work can be done.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think such information regularly updated (I see the current shipping status page was updated July 19th) would be very good at informing people about the status of these newer products.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 73, phil, K7PEH
>> 
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