[HH] Velleman K8200 3D printer kit and other things at the You-Do-It Electronics Washington's Birthday sale

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

I'm very disappointed for three reasons, (1) I wanted to see it. I'm
really interested in getting a 3D printer. (2) I wasted a lunch hour, and
not to be a baby about it, but that is a "personal" time I really don't
like to waste. (3) I have (had) a soft spot for YDI since I was a kid. It
looked like they were going to be unable to capitalize the maker movement,
this stunt looked like a good move, but, alas, same old YDI just mucking
up a free lunch. They'll miss out on the maker movement to Microcenter and
Amazon because they can't shoot straight.

Currently, I can't think of a serious reason to shop their again.


> Mark Komarinski wrote:
>> To clarify, they have the kits in stock (there were at least three
>> behind them).  It's just no demo unit - whomever is handling the
>> shipping has been delayed by weather.
>
> That's lame.
>
> So were they shipping in an already assembled unit from the vendor? When
> they knew it hadn't arrived by Friday, they should have had an employee
> build one from the kits they had on hand.
>
> So I wonder who was going to be running the demo. Usually for stuff like
> this the vendor will send a person. That person could have brought the
> printer with them. Though I suppose if they were flying in, it's
> probably a bit big to be sending as checked luggage. But either Y-D-I or
> he vendor should have ate that cost and just done it. (Unless that was
> the only assembled printer they had.)
>
>  -Tom
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