AlexTzone
I design minimalistic – but not boring – PC stuff
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THOR ZONE
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What type of shipping will you be using?
I ask because as a backer of Sentry 1.1 (sea freight) and Sentry 2.0 (DHL express), the Sentry 2.0 shipping experience has been markedly better.
Sea freight to Hubs in US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Shipping a 4.5kg package from China to US with DHL express would be super smooth but expensive, that's why we have to use sea. All other countries in our shipping list are delivered by air freight, but are also more expensive.
Hi there. Interested to back this and secure a case, however I’ve backed projects before where fortunately I was one of the lucky ones that received the product, I also watched as hundreds of backers vented online at never being sent anything. Do you see yourselves as being able to competently fill the current pledges with the funds already raised? Or is there already a shortfall, or perhaps plans to relocate to the Bahamas for an extended sabbatical? I know it’s hard to guarantee anything online, just thought I’d see what your response might be...
Fulfill pledges
- We've done a lot of homework (calculating productions costs, sea freight, warehousing, taxes, fulfillment routes, etc), so I'm very confident that we can deliver the MJOLNIRs. We also have emergency funds in case of unexpected costs.
Shortfall or is it enough?
- We've quoted every part at different quantities. The minimum economically feasible (including some margins for production errors) quantity turned out to be 150 units, which was our KS goal (SEK 585.000). At almost SEK 2.000.000 we not only have more emergency funds (i.e. our own margins to inject if something goes wrong), but also optimal economies of scale (unit price of CNC flattens out after approx. 400 units, and we're at 500 now). It's a sweet-spot really:
- 500 units have a LOT better economies of scale than 150 units
- 500 units are not significantly more expensive (unit wise) than 1.000, 2.000,..., 10.000
- 500 units are a LOT easier to fulfill than 1.000, 2.000,..., 10.000
Run away to Bahamas?
- If there's one thing I can't stand, it's burning to a crisp on a boring beach! No but seriously, we've been developing this for 3 years now...I just can't see how anybody (let alone us) would be capable of doing something like that just to scam somebody. In reality it seems most startups that fail, do so for naive reasons (underestimating the costs and complexity) rather than being malicious.
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