The Mellotron Group

Martin,
 
I understand your position, but please understand mine. I have tried to  
understand what is going on with production, but I cannot when I am uninformed.  I 
took offense when you announced that The Kooks had a machine. I am confident  
that I placed my order before they did. When I asked you about that off list 
why  The Kooks had one before I did, this is what I was told
 
 
ME:  Who are the Kooks, and why do they have a  M4000 before I do?


You:  They had No.2 although they borrowed an  M400 to make the album.  
 
 
That was it. I could care less if they had a number two. Were they there at  
the beginning? I think you would be better off taking care of the rest of us  
before worrying about publicity and additional orders.
 
I remember back last summer when you told me that it would be here in  
September.  I sold 1562 to come up with the balance. Money was extremely  tight for 
me at that time and I was afraid I would otherwise be unable to pay  the 
balance.
 
In September you told me I would have a great Christmas because it would be  
here by then.
 
In December, you told me that it would be here most probably in February.  In 
late January you told me that I would have it definitely by the third week in 
 June for NEARfest.
 
In late April you informed me that you could not meet that date.
 
Then you post about the Kooks. And now you tell us about someone getting  one 
to score a movie. What about the rest of us?
 
What really disappoints me is that there is so little information coming to  
those of us who have supported Streetly from the beginning. Or maybe I'm 
wrong.  Maybe others who have purchased one know more than I.
 
I think good faith has to be based on trust and that goes both ways. I  trust 
Streetly enough to send you a lot of money. I would like to be trusted  
enough to be kept in the loop. I also would like to know that these machines  will 
be received in the order in which they were purchased.
 
To be honest, I'm glad one will be used in a movie score. What are they  
going to do though, put that information up on the big screen? I'm going to  think 
it very unfair if I have to wait even longer while you fill that order.  I'm 
sure that film wasn't even in preproduction when I sent my deposit.
 
I told you that arguably the biggest selling and most prestigious keyboard  
magazine out there want's to review the M-4000. They want to come here and do  
that. That made no difference. That will get you far more publicity and orders 
 than the movie score.
 
I don't want to hear that others are jumping the line to get their machines  
before I do. I don't even want to think that that is what is going on.
 
I have been emailed off list that I run the risk off pissing you off. It  
seems like a number of folks on this list are afraid of doing that. Well, I'm  
not trying to piss you off. I am concerned that the order I placed years  ago 
will only be filled when every rock band who wants one has had their order  
filled.
 
I think it would be in Streetly's interest to come clean to those of us who  
have placed orders and waited patiently. Tell us where we are in the process.  
Tell us truthfully when we can expect our orders to be filled. If you  want 
that information kept private, so be it. But I think you owe more than  short 
shrift to me and to the others who have faithfully placed orders. I also  think 
that you should fill orders as they were received. Period.
 
Frank
 
 
 
 
 



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