SynthModules

Well Put.  So Brice what is going?


>From: "analog@devilkitty.org" <analog@devilkitty.org>
>Reply-To: SynthModules@yahoogroups.com
>To: SynthModules@yahoogroups.com,  analog@devilkitty.org
>Subject: [SynthModules] RE: weekly progress updates?
>Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:52:56 -0500
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:53:54 -0500
> > From: "john mahoney" <jmahoney@gate.net>
> > Subject: Re: weekly progress updates?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brice D. Hornback"
> > Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 6:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SynthModules] weekly progress updates?
> >
> >
> > > Yes, and they will be shipping. I'm hoping to get two more out 
>tomorrow.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Brice
> >
> > I wonder if those ever went out, since it's been 3 weeks since that 
>post?
>
>I have remained rather quiet on this matter for quite some time, but I
>would posit that a more pertinent question right now might be "do they
>really exist, or is this yet more smoke and mirrors?"
>
> > I wonder why there are never any updates -- weekly, monthly,
> > semi-annually...?
>
>Brice has told us that he would update us more frequently *how* many times
>now?  I don't believe a word of it any longer.  Hell, I've stopped
>believing in the existence of the *module* until one shows up on my porch.
>
> > I wonder when those who've paid will run out of patience and start 
>calling
> > lawyers?
> > Please pardon my pondering, but I've never seen a situation quite like
>this.
> > It's not that I am hoping for something bad to happen to Brice; I'm not.
>I'm
> > just *amazed* by the patience of those on the waiting list.
>
>For some reason modular synth folks seem to be an extraordinarily patient
>group, but this situation has been pushing the limit of that tolerance for
>a long time.  It will be "interesting" to see what excuse he comes up with
>this time.
>
> > P.S. Has anyone reading this actually received a PSIM-1 in, say, the 
>last
>6
> > months?
>
>No, but I have an email from Brice dated 04/20/04 telling me that there
>were eleven more to be built before mine.  Since he has stated on this list
>that there are about fifty parts to each one, I simply cannot imagine how a
>dozen modules can't be built in over two years.  I'll be the first to admit
>that I'm no electronics genius, but if the boards and parts are there (he's
>said that he already spent our money on them) even *I* can sure as hell
>build and test a module in a week.  I'm sure Brice will plead "extenuating
>circumstances" again as he's done in the past; guess what:  we *all* have
>extenuating circumstances.  It doesn't change the fact that he has entered
>into a contract with each of us and failed to deliver in anything
>approaching a timely manner.  If what I've written sounds angry, it's
>because I *am*.  In any other business he would have had his day in court
>long ago.
>
>This has gone well beyond "annoying;" it's time for an accounting.
>
>--
>Charlie
>
>
>
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