Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

a) Tonight and tomorrow, I'm making a 'final pass' through the kit backlog
before I go on my (cough) "vacation". The goal is to extract all shippable kits
I may have missed (or were ordered after 11-15) and get them on the ship list.
Like I stated before, in order to BE on the ship list I have to bill your credit
card first. There are still some folks that owe me updated cards/exp dates or
their cards were...errr....declined. This may be strictly an 'Internet Fraud
Alert', not a lack of funds. If you want kits shipped before Feb. 1st and you
belong in this class, please get this straightened out before Friday. Else your
order gets placed in the 'black hole file'.

b) The 30 Quck Ship MOTM-480s will go out this month (before Jan 1st). Again,
none of these have been charged, but they WILL BE CHARGED beginning this
Wednesday. If you sent in the 'Ship It Now' email and I get a card declined,
it's going to be Feb. until I try again. You have been warned. So, if you are
using VISA, I ∗strongly suggest∗ you call the number on the back of the card and
verbally tell them that Synthesis Technology is an approved vendor and not to
flag a charge from me as fraud. Trust me, I'm the last person stupid enough to
charge everyone's card and skip off to Jamaica :)

c) It's looking like ~840 modules will be shipped this year. This is about what
I expected at the beginning, given my new 'day job' and the amount of time that
entails. Next year, I expect a drop to the ~700 module level, as the 'mature'
modules are sold mainly to new users. The revenue $$$ will be flat, because the
ASP (Average Selling Price) will go up. I was planning to surpass Moog in total
modules shipped by Dec 2005 but I'm going to be about 400 short. But I'll get
there eventually :) Doepfer is another story altogether :(

BTW: Module #5600 will ship this week.

OK, back to (paper)work.

Paul S.