Quote from: Phorna on August 02, 2014, 09:59:38 AM

Quote from: Searing on August 02, 2014, 07:33:57 AM

Alpha sold us 'equipment' to be delivered in July (by numerous announcements etc) and a lot of us paid via paypal and cc payment.....that 30% ..then alpha said
we did not have to pay till prototype and shipping ..but the main point from amex reps view is ...we can only pay the last 70% via unsecured methods and no proof
of equipment no prototype....missed timeline...OR WE LOSE OR INITIAL 30% down.....well to amex reps point of view that is using the good graces of amex as
a front to sell people vaporware under the guise of cc and paypal protection...they were like .....wow ...could not believe alpha pulled this..

Well, the first positive thing (if this is not a trap) I can say about Alpha is that they:

"After much consideration we have decided those who want to wait to pay via CC/DC or want to wait for 'proof' can do so. This will not affect your place in the queue and we are pleased to tell you it will still be based on the initial payment. "

The bad is that with such an amount of claims from their customers they stil have nothing to show to calm people down. And that's status quo after so many months of development.

IMHO they should at once publish the present schedule with points that can be easily verified by customers week by week until the product is shipped.

This is kind of the point really. After months and months of no concrete information, everyone fears the worst. They could at least put a picture of them with the chips, but their last update just had more technical diagrams, and not being an engineer myself, could be gibberish for all I know.

Why not post pictures of what hardware they do have? Them with the hardware.