Quote from: xcrowd on August 20, 2013, 01:13:17 PM

Quote from: Coinmining on August 20, 2013, 10:30:35 AM

Import duties / VAT / etc will have to be paid by the customer i suppose

and a 175cm * 175cm * 75cm box will not pass customs unnoticed :-)

Promise less, deliver more. It will most likely be in a much smaller form factor which will be confirmed over the next couple of weeks. That was mainly the reason why we stopped taking shipping fees in advance.

Please, please, please do seriously work on your product design. It's not that I can't afford spending the money on an Olympus to place it in a colo facility. Is that I already called a few colo service providers and not only did they almost laughed at me like" "Wow! What kind of massive server is that?" but also gave me an obscene quote that eats a massive share of my potential profits that makes it no more profitable than lower-end product lines or as profitable as other competitive products.

It's ok to design "cool-looking" yet less efficient products if they are entry-level. However, for the high-end product line I see absolutely no need to waste so much space and resources, you want to be super efficient in space and weight as well. I think you should seriously attempt to slash volumetric space by at least a factor of 3-4 and weight by a factor of 10. Otherwise, you are putting your products at a huge competitive and value disadvantage in relation to other companies that have much more efficient product designs and also puts yourself in unnecessary extra burden with shipping and customs logistics. And this is supposed to be your flagship product. Thanks.