[sdiy] MOTM news

[Eric Wood]

Thank you Paul!!! It was always a pleasure to deal with you and I absolutely loved my MOTM when I had it.

On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:41 PM, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1 at airmail.net> wrote:

> On May 1st, all the MOTM production/shipping/support will be handled by
> Scott Deyo at www.bridechamber.com
> 
> 1) All MOTM orders placed with me will still be shipped by me.
> 2) I am behind about 3 weeks due to illness but am about recovered. 
> 3) You will see a "placeholder' website soon, with the full new site
> sometime in late June. I have to change hosting companies but will not do
> that until I have reduced the backlog to the point that I can trust moving
> the MySQL database. These 'transparent' web host moves never are :(
> 4) I have resolved the MOTM-480 issues and those modules + kits will start
> shipping this coming week. If you have a kit on order: the pc boards have
> most of the parts stuffed and soldered. This is all I have time to do: you
> still get to solder pots/wires/jacks/etc.
> 
> I'm sure I'll be repeating this 100 times in the next few months (such is
> the nature of the Internet):
> 
> a) I'm not going out of business
> b) I'm not abandoning the very format I invented
> c) all the older MOTM designs/pc boards are at BrideChamber and will be for
> as long as we can find parts
> 
> I'm simply letting BrideChamber do all the order fulfillment and in effect,
> they become my MOTM distributor. So instead of shipping to 800 individual
> people like in the past, I ship to one person. It's no secret that timely
> shipping has been my #1 issue for 13 years. And so I fixed it.
> 
> What does the future hold? It depends *entirely* on people's support of
> BrideChamber. Both of us are taking large financial risks. Even though MOTM
> was up until Jan 2012 a hobby, it's been a rather large, elaborate hobby.
> Buying and shipping 2 million parts is not easy. I have annoyed, irritated
> and pissed off many people. And I don't blame them 1 bit. All I ask is that
> you consider dealing with BrideChamber for all your 5U/MOTM/MU needs.
> 
> Scott and I will start slowly introducing new 5U designs (in both MU and
> MOTM format) later this year. Some will be brand new, some will be
> updates/mods/tweaks to current modules to design out hard-to-get parts (good
> example, the MOTM-800 EG). I myself will no longer design for DIYers. All
> new stuff will be SMT. I am going to concentrate of delivery of product for
> people to use. I understand many MOTM users got into it specifically because
> they like to build. And, ironically, this is the VERY REASON that I have to
> stop: it takes too much bandwidth, and each year that passes, my available
> bandwidth *decreases*. Stories of waiting +3years for my stuff is 100% true.
> And how to fix that: SMT assembly & BrideChamber.
> 
> The Zen Shopping cart will be gone on Tuesday, as I will have nothing to
> sell.  I still have a few kits left in the cart, you have 24 hours to grab
> them.
> 
> Thanks to nearly 800 people worldwide that are MOTM customers: past, present
> and future.
> 
> Paul S.
> Synthesis Technology
> www.synthtech.com
> 
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