This may be "smart" for them, but a real risk for their customers, IF this is how the are starting their business. If they are short of enough cash to even get the ball rolling, customers are shouldering their risk. Not good business.
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This may be "smart" for them, but a real risk for their customers, IF this is how the are starting their business. If they are short of enough cash to even get the ball rolling, customers are shouldering their risk. Not good business.
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These are the things you do before offering product to the public, not after. Risk is part of being in business. If you are not willing to take any risk, forget being a business owner and be happy as an employee for someone who took the risk. If owning or starting a business was a sure thing, everyone would be in business for themselves and there would be no employees.
After looking at the renders again i'm kind of confused...
If say I wanted the anodized black, would the entire bumper be black or only the right side that gets screwed on? Just from looking at the pictures again all the bumpers are silver with the right side being the only color option.
But their website also indicates a black/black option... Does that mean the black is the only model that would have the option of being completely one color?
If you look at the Black and Red rendering you will see the larger part of the case is black and the smaller red. It is indicated as "Black/Red" in the options (drop down menu on their site). So it stands to reason the silver and black (as indicated in the latest email pic) is annotated as "Silver/Black" ....which it is. So if you order "Black/Black" your going to get an entirely black case.
In summary the first color is the large part and the second color the smaller
It's a good looking case, but I'm not convinced that it won't hurt reception given that it is metal and how Apple designed the antenna. If it were a large company I might be tempted to pre-order, but since you're dealing with someone operating out of their house how easy do you all think it's going to be to return it if it kills reception?
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These are the things you do before offering product to the public, not after. Risk is part of being in business. If you are not willing to take any risk, forget being a business owner and be happy as an employee for someone who took the risk. If owning or starting a business was a sure thing, everyone would be in business for themselves and there would be no employees.
they did have a public product before and were able to handle the orders but I guess this one just blew up on them. I'm sure at 80-100bux a pop they never expected to sell thousands of units in a weekend let alone ever. Now we wait as they gear up to supply us. I'm patient, I dont even have an iPhone 4 yet so time is kinda on my side at the moment.
Looking back on what was said earlier you are in the second batch lineup anyways, so this delay isn't hurting you anyways. You were supposed to get your order in August, not July 12. Now that they have increased production you should receive it before August. You should be happy about this.
Highly unlikely. These will be made using CNC and not by hand. You place the block of aluminum into the machine and the computers take over. The logo might also be done with the CNC machine so unless they make a run leaving that process out they will all have the logo. They could be stenciled on as well. Other than early requests don't expect to receive one without the logo. If I owned that company I would not accept requests for no logos. It's marketing 101, have your logo prominently displayed on your products.
Could you imagine buying an Apple product without the logo?I ordered on the 4th though, which means I should be in Julys orders, July = July. Right?
Not quite.....Your order was in the #4000 block, right? Mine is 4400 block.
Another forum member stated this earlier.......
2nd batch was supposed to be August. Now it is pushed up to July.
But those order numbers don't indicate Vapor only orders, those numbers are for the whole company.
Yes, I agree it could be different. But that forum member stated that his order number was #395*. This means that we are both behind him in line. If he is 2nd batch then we can't be ahead of him in the line.
I'm sure a lot of people signed up for the pre-order notification, but I'm talking about actually order numbers. It is what it is. Batches might be done by 500's. Like order numbers 3400-3900 are first batch and 3901-4400 are batch number 2. Who knows, but if that forum member is correct and his order number is before ours then we were never meant to get ours on day one.
Patience is a virtue. It's much more fun to stay positive about a product than questioning everything that a home based company might be doing wrong or different than how a large company works.
Patience is a virtue. It's much more fun to stay positive about a product than questioning everything that a home based company might be doing wrong or different than how a large company works.
Did you order? or just request a pre-order email? For the rest of us, we requested a pre-order and then they sent out an email with instructions on how to order and you pay with PayPal so they would have your money if you really ordered.
Troop231, then why the rush? At least I have the phone, and I'm still not freaking out yet. If you got it on the 12th would have just stared at it everyday? Or were you planning on getting the iPhone 4 when you found a suitable case?
Eh idk, just felt like being the first one to post pics, judge the build quality etc. Hopefully Apple doesn't announce anything big tomorrow.
even if steve jobs tells the world to got **** themselves I'll still grab an iPhone and wait for my element case...**** it...I'll jam my 3GS in it if I have to!
Lol, I already have a Zagg IS waiting just in case the Element case gets delayed later.
I got a BSE, iLuv Edge bumper style case, screen protector and the damn vapor on order...waiting....waiting....waiting!!!
Seems like you're fully stocked for the war lol. I wasn't going to buy the Zagg until I got a 50% code, which I did, which made it completely worthwhile.
I'm #3160 and when I spoke to them on the phone they also told me I was in the 2nd batch of orders and will receive at the end of July. Come to think of it do we know any forum members that were in the first batch? I think they told all the early preorders they were in the 2nd batch, this might explain the 2nd email we received.
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