Quote from: aerobatic on January 29, 2014, 05:54:14 PM

Quote from: asnghost on January 29, 2014, 12:48:16 PM

Quote from: VolanicEruptor on January 29, 2014, 07:57:39 AM

Sorry your car is missing 20% of its engine... we'll give you a discount on your next one!

And it's more Gas than advertised...... Cry

How late is the feb batch going to be??

OK.. please dont shoot me. im just playing devils advocate here.. and using your car analogy... to show you from cointerra's point of view.

youve ordered a sports car that was advertised as going at 200 MPH and consume 20 MPG and youve paid them $6,000 up front for it.

Now, theyve come back and told you that theyre sorry, that the car that they built will go 170 MPH, and consume 24 MPG and with further tweaks in the future it may go faster.

Theyve told you you can have a choice...

do you still want your sports car delivered even though it goes a little slower.. at 170 MPH and consumes 24 MPG? or would you prefer a refund?

Do you think a car company would allow you to take your car... but because it doesnt go 200 MPH and only goes 170 MPH do you think they will offer you a 15% refund? (i dont think so). theyre offering you your only two choices... 1. take it as is and hope they continue to tweak it... or 2. have a refund.

The cost of building the car was the same so its not like they can afford to refund you anything. if you choose to take a refund they will sell the car to someone else.

dont shoot me.. im just explaining it in the way that theyre seeing it.. and using your car analogy works well.

I think the key difference versus your car analogy above is that people bought the product on a price/GH basis... A more accurate analogy would therefore be if someone running a fleet of buses was sold a 80 seater bus with a promised fuel economy but the bus delivered in the end only seats 60 and is a lot less fuel efficient. So the changes in spec are clearly going to affect the bus operator's profitability and it isnt what he paid for. Having said that, I think CT's choice to deliver earlier rather than having customers wait while they redesign their boards (like HF) is a good decision that a lot of the community prefer. Taking the bus analogy further, I am not sure it is fair to tell customers that the cost to the bus maker of the 60 seater vs the 80 seater is the same, (ditto re the reduced fuel efficiency) as this isnt relevant to the end user / bus operator and it should be the bus manufacturer's responsibility to deliver what they had offered

Edited final sentence... (Re fuel efficiency)