Hi Dave and Stefan,
I beg to disagree a bit on the subject. I feel that Ballendo is
not 'just another seller'. He is one of us, meaning that he is really
one of us. If it were my board I would issue a waver for that machine
and any other product that is truly benefiting this hobby. I'll give
you examples who I think would qualify for such a waver, should they
need one:
Ballendo, because of what he does for the PCB Midnight Engineering
community
TurboCNC because it is a work of love and it does all it's supposed
to do and then some and has a very symbolic price. Has its own
website and yahoo group
www.kleinbauer.com for what he did and does to this hobby (CNC, PCB
and all that. In fact John has a very interesting policy: he allows
his customers to talk about any subject and we all have lot's of fun,
too!) Has his own website
www.hobbycnc.com for building this hobby from the ground up AND
recently offering a unipolar chopper Has his own website and own
yahoo group.
www.xylotex.com his bipolar controller is a really nice piece of work.
www.gecko.com becasue it is Mariss and because it is Gecko drives.
Has both a website and yahoo group.
Those are the products I truly believe are made for us by one of us
but Ballendo's product is brand new, getting ready as we speak. The
man probably has no time to sleep right now, not to mention that his
priorities do not include organizing a web site right now.... A
friendly understaning would help him a lot, specially right now.
That is my personal opinion. Respectfully, Mike
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Mucha" <dave_mucha@y...>
wrote:
>
> > I just thought we had an agreement concerning selling stuff,
which
> is
> > that the details are discussed off list.
> > I'd like to follow the mill discussion, but i'm not very
interested
> in the
> > fifth
> > "i want one" reply with no other useful information.
> > However, i wasn't trying to offend anyone, if someone preceived
it
> that
> > way i'm sorry.
> >
> > Please, keep us informed about the progress with that mill, and
> also about
> > performance,
> > and problems. It is totally on topic and very interesting, after
> all most
> > here have
> > surely thought about buying/building such a mill. There is
nothing
> wrong
> > with offering
> > items for sale, but at some point the communication should go off
> list,
> > because
> > the rest of the list has no need to know.
> >
> > ST
>
> I agree.
>
> I would request Ballendo make a web page or yahoo list for the new
> product and then allow us to respond there.
>
> it would not need to be formal as the offer is in-formal : )
>
> But, some of us have e-mailed ballendo and not gotten responses. I
> offered to trade him my T-Tech and a grand for his new machine. but
> thank goodness he didn't respond, It sold for well over 3 grand !
>
>
> Dave