Re: TransWarpGS Clone Preorders open!

[Conrad <conrad.russo@gmail.com>]

Hi guys,

First of all, Bill, thank you so much for your support and your kind words. I am shipping via CanadaPost and you will pay to the cent what I pay, so don't worry about that. Thank you so much for your offer of free fillets, I will make sure to stop by if I'm ever in the area!

@nyder: I completely understand your skepticism, 100%, and everyone else's too. The only things that set me off were:

A: A false statement presented as truth without qualification of uncertainty
B: The statement that "if it were easy it would have been done already"

The first one I would have ignored, but paired with the second it REALLY upset me, because it implies that either it must be easy (and if it was someone must have already done it) or it must be beyond me (if we accept that it is not easy). It's not the words that bother me it's what they imply, whether it was intentional or not. Anyway I want to be done with it, so lets just say I won't be responding that way anymore even if I feel it is warranted, I said what I needed to say.

@chris: I really appreciate your perspective and I always find it interesting how two people can see things so differently. I have given a lot of responses like yours since I announced this project but just this time I wanted to speak my mind about how the person on the receiving end of one's words can take things to mean something very different then what you implied. When I am being critical of another's work I am always quite careful to stick to the facts, and to research any point of contention, even if I am sure I already know what I'm researching. Making comments like "if it was easy it would have been done already" is a fallacy. There have been many inventions or reinventions over the years that seem remarkably simple in retrospect. Is it so hard to believe that someone looked at a problem from a different point of view and did something that was either not thought of before or was thought up and written off as impractical due to different circumstances. Anyway, I know what you are driving at, believe me. 

To answer your question a $50 dollar deposit is fine if you can't afford the full preorder price at present. I'll let you know when the cards arrive and I will put one aside for you until you can afford the preorder price. Believe me I know how it feels to see something like this pass you by because the funds are not available. I wasn't going to tell anyone this because I didn't want people to think I was asking for sympathy. The preorder price is actually $20.00 below my calculated costs, but I wanted to keep the final price ≥$200. I just wanted to get that out before someone challenged how I was saying I was offering it at cost and still offering it at a lower cost for preorder. Anyway, thanks everyone for their support, their kind words, their comments, their questions, and everything else.