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OT Re: 500 buck PCB mill/drill revisited

2005-11-07 by lcdpublishing

That's nothing Wayne, You should see his posts on the CNC forum 
soliciting financial investors.  If that isn't asking for money, I 
don't know what is.  

Well, if history is any indication as to what will happen this time 
around........


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Wayne C. Gramlich" 
<Yahoo@G...> wrote:
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Dave Hylands <dhylands@g...> 
wrote:
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > On 11/7/05, lcdpublishing <lcdpublishing@y...> wrote:
> > > Hi Dave,
> > >
> > > I do not apologize for my questions or comments about his
> > > offerings.  He has posted in other groups product 
> > > anouncements that I refered to.
> > 
> > Yeah - except Ballendo isn't offering anything yet.
> > There haven't been any product announcements from Ballendo
> > in this group, just proposals for what a product might be.
> 
> Dave:
> 
> I must respectfully disagree.
> 
> In message 6439:
> 
>    I am offering these first machines HERE ONLY, ...
>         ^^^^^^^^
> 
> In message 6441:
> 
>    I AM offering one as a COMPLETE kit. ...
>         ^^^^^^^^
> 
> In message 6666:
> 
>    Still expect to be taking orders this month for delivery
>    late this month ...
> 
> In message 6750
> 
>    Working hard.  Few more days.
> 
> Then *nothing*.
> 
> While ballendo never asked for any money, he certainly
> set the expectations that machine delivery was forthcoming.
> 
> I painfully set aside $500 that I did not really have
> for the machine, got on his list, and waited and waited.
> Eventually, I returned the $500 to the kitty that I raided
> and moved on.
> 
> I do not have problems with Ballendo changing his plans,
> but he certainly did not bother to post a message to *this*
> list indicating that his plans had changed.
> 
> Having said that, I am *still* interested in a machine at
> $500 in kit form.
> 
> My $.02,
> 
> -Wayne
>

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