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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2011, 11:41:43 PM »
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Ah, apologies you weren't being a dick, you just fail at reading comprehension :-)

Perhaps we need a [Darrin] tag that puts everything in big letters and single syllables ;>


or alternatively we could send you back to school to do grade-level English.  ;)
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2011, 06:56:30 AM »
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Pfft, yanks don't learn English :-)


LOL.  That made me think of the time my wife came home and told me one of the Doctors at the hospital had completed a form and where it said "languages spoken" he had written "American".
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2011, 02:56:59 PM »
Quote from: persia;649183
Are you trying to say the chinese got the better of you?  Really Barry I appreciate that you are new to the computer business but you have to be a better negotiator than that to make it.  As you are now aware there are entire cities in China devoted to computer parts, the factories DO compete with each other and they DO drive a hard bargain.  China is the last place on earth to start to learn how to haggle.


When I worked in China I quickly found out that if you want the best deal you:

a.  Negotiate in person.
b.  Have someone who is Chinese do the talking.
c.  Realize that everything costs one-tenth of what you actually think it does.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #17 on: July 12, 2011, 03:04:39 PM »
Quote from: Duce;649190
Would you go on ABC Morning News to demo your product and blurt out "Such a value!  Buy our 64x and still have enough money left over to buy a toothless crackwhore!".  


I bet he would and it does make a catchy slogan.

I think we need to get some t-shirts made:

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            Commodore USA

               Bazza says:
  "Buy our C64x and have enough
money left over to shag a toothless
               crackwhore!"

followed by this pic:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/darrin01311/transvestitent4.jpg
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #18 on: July 13, 2011, 03:51:27 AM »
Quote from: CritAnime;649268
I am pretty sure that there is a picture floating around of the factory doing the vic-slims showing a bios screen with the commodore logo on it. But for the life in me I can't find it now.

===Edit===

Found it. You can see from the pic ,that the Chinese facility dealing with the vic-slim's has provided, the bios displaying the Commodore logo. Which makes me wonder why they have put it on the slims and not the flagship C64X.

Maybe thats another thing that will come on the COS 1.X disk lol. :D


If I was a real cynic, I might suggest that their picture was a mock-up or perhaps they asked someone to produce a graphical BIOS, asked for pictures of the work and then refused to pay for it.  :)

Alternatively, perhaps the current boards were made in that huge German plant several years ago and don't have the new BIOS that the 100,000 boards from the Chinese plant have been fitted with.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #19 on: July 14, 2011, 04:02:16 AM »
Quote from: CritAnime;649412
The overheating issue is should be looked at properly. several people have voiced their concern over the venting placements. Only for good ol Bazza to launch into replay with

http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum/27-commodore-usa/4928-fan-and-different-function-keys?limit=15&start=15&lang=en#5957


It does make you wonder where Bazza got his degree in Thermodynamics.  I'm sure he took a 3 year course in it 40 years ago to help him sell furniture.

"Well, you see by placing a large ceiling fan here, it helps to keep the kitchen countertop cool during the warm summer months."

Same principle I guess...
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #20 on: July 14, 2011, 04:16:06 AM »
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Must be where he got his customer service skills from too.


LOL.  Yeah, "All sales are final and you must have tore a hole in that sofa yourself so I'm not replacing it!  What do you mean your recliner won't recline?  Too bad, use it as hardback chair instead!"

Actually, does anybody remember The Doom Master's replies on eBay to anybody that left him any negative feedback?
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #21 on: July 14, 2011, 04:20:38 AM »
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Legitimate concerns met by condescending verbal abuse from the head man himself? That's our Barry! No wonder this thing is such a resounding success!


Did you notice how he actually managed to avoid answering the question "Did you do any testing"?  Skillfully done.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2011, 07:09:47 AM »
Quote from: psxphill;649656
What you mean is that there is no X1000 news to post, so the anti X1000 zealots can't trash the threads.


So anyone who points out one of the following is an Anti-CUSA "zealot"?:

Disney isn't making all-in-one computers, Canadian laptops, fizzy drinks and light bulbs.

Huge retail stores are not selling C64x in the high street.

Units stated as being shipped actually haven't even been manufactured.

Cases claimed to be manufactured were still in the prototype stage.

A brand new OS was actually Linux.

Potential customers get insulted.

Actual customers get insulted.

A $30m advertising campaign doesn't actually exist, in fact, there aren't even any highway billboards in Florida carrying any ads, or online advertising or magazine advertising.

CUSA doesn't actually own a manufacturing plant in China.

CUSA doesn't actually own a shipping facility in China.

A stack of CUSA motherboards ready to ship from China are actually a 2 year old pile of motherboards in Germany.

CUSA's "assembly plant" is a backroom in a Florida shop.

Bazza is a apparently a homophobe.

CUSA takes credit for other people's work.

C64x run hot, were never properly tested and have a major design flaw regarding air flow in the case.

The "top of the range games machine with state of the art graphics" was actually a cheap, low-end PC.

The VIC range isn't a CUSA design, but an off the shelf model produced for several years by a third party.

That the VIC isn't sold at a lost because it is over double the retail price of the actually supplier.

The "Amiga" range of cases are also off-the-shelf designs already on sale by third party distributers.

I could go on and on and on, but apparently I'm not actually entitled to an opinion and I shouldn't be allowed to comment because I'm a "zealot".

If I'm a zealot then you must be a fricking ostrich with your head either stuck up your ass or imbedded firmly in the sand.

Strange how several pro-CUSA posts suddenly appear and we're graced by his Lord & Master(bator) himself.  I suspect a quick PM and a link were sent out to the "faithful".

I think we're entitled to take shots at the constant posts that show up even though "we're not the target customers".  Especially when we're actually handed loaded guns by Spammy and C-USA insists on painting a large target on itself.  The treatment is the same that any company posting here would get.  We judge products and actions based on merit.  C-USA is apparently the new Merlancia.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #23 on: July 15, 2011, 03:56:21 PM »
Quote from: dammy;649687
True, C=USA is just struggling to get all products shipped to existing pre-orders.  I think that is what truly annoys the anti-C=USA trolls, success.


How can you be struggling to fill a handfull of orders when you claim to have 100,000+ units boxed and read to ship since 3 months ago?  This gets really confusing.  Have you decided whether to include that mouse yet or does that depend on whether or not Walmart have run out?
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #24 on: July 15, 2011, 04:05:09 PM »
Quote from: number6;649692
There is still no logical answer (to me) about why only the most expensive model (ultimate) is being shipped.
If this was about just catching up, then the earliest orders placed would have been filled, imo. In fact, you indicated that would be the process (FIFO). Clearly, from reading the posts on Commodore-Amiga.org, this is not the case.

source

Typical concern "I'm going to be getting one of the middle price units with the wifi but really want to see when others receive their non ultimate units before ordering."

To the casual observer, putting 2+2 together this looks like either a continued supply shortage (already posted by Barry) or a manpower shortage. If you enjoy the success I believe is possible particularly from the Mike Commodore connection (regardless of how deep the connection runs), then you can see how this will put a greater strain on what is obviously already a strained operation currently.

Feel free to correct me if you think my surface analysis is incorrect.

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I'm amazed that "ZIP code" is a factor.  Once an order has been boxed up and taken to UPS/FEDEX/USPO then who cares what the ZIP code is?  Hell, you just hand it over and let the postal company deal with that, especially when the customer has paid for the shipping when they ordered the product.

The fact is that an "Ultimate" manchine whill have the biggest mark-up, so it appears that C-USA are doing the rather unethical thing of shipping orders to customers based not on order date, but on which order lines makes them the most money, which is a rather strange priority for a company claiming to have a $30,000,000 advertising budget (which apart from the DVD insert appears to have not been spent).

It is all very, very strange, but then I don't have a degree in thermodynamics.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #25 on: July 15, 2011, 04:30:30 PM »
Quote from: dammy;649702
Wow, can you distort things even more then that?  Or should I dare to ask if you are capable of being even more of a troll then you are now?


It is amazing Spammy how you have never once managed to honestly address a single concern raised over several months.  Easier to call people "trolls" and "zealots" eh?

Got any more factory pics for us?

Here's one for you:

"C64x computers boxed and being shipped to waiting customers in Alaska and Hawaii":
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #26 on: July 15, 2011, 04:46:52 PM »
Hell Dammny, while we're at it, explain this:

If the factory photographs of the motherboards was an "honest mistake" by your secret agent in China then where are the real photographs?  Your agent has had over a month to get someone to take out a camera and take some "real" pics, email them to Bazza, who could email them to you and then you could post them.  So, where are they?  No cameras in China?  Or more likely, no motherboards.

Let's assume your excuse will be that they have all been shipped to the USA and are in cases ready to ship.  Can we have some pics of those please?  When I say pics, I mean pics of tens of thousands of machines all together and not a close-up of a metal stand with a few empty boxes on shelves.

As you have been shipping these orders then surely we have pictures of someone with C-USA dropping off hundreds of units at FEDEX/UPS/USPS from the back of a van or loading them toto their trucks from the back of your "assembly plant" in Florida?  Or are you just transporting them one at a time using the trunk of a car?

Honest questions.  Honest answers please.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #27 on: July 15, 2011, 04:49:17 PM »
Quote from: spihunter;649705
The sad part is that you actually believe that.......


The sad thing is that I think The Daddy shipped more Minimig v1.1 cases than C-USA has shipped 64x's so far.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2011, 04:57:20 PM »
Oh, and one last question before I head off to work:

Spammy, where are the reviews and pictures of your personal working 64x?  Surely you have ordered one?  Surely someone who has done so much for C-USA (Spammy threads, posting false pictures, making false statements) would have been one of the priority shipments?

I'd like to read a review from a trustworthy source, so I'm waiting with baited breath for a long, details report from an honest and reliable gentleman, respected and in good standing within the community such as yourself.  Any chance?
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #29 from previous page: July 16, 2011, 12:05:59 AM »
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I don't think so:
http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum/27-commodore-usa/6099-updates?lang=en#6099


Hmm... let me see...

C64 BAREBONES: ALL BEEN SHIPPED.

Empty cases?  That was eay.  How many?

C64 ULTIMATES ALL HAVE BEEN SHIPPED.,There are still a few Ultimates in the pipeline, some of which were delayed due to incorrect addresses, issues with payment. customer changes, etc, BUT 99% HAVE BEEN SHIPPED.

Blaming the customers again!  How many?

C64 BASIC: APPROX 30% SHIPPED, ALL WILL BE SHIPPED BY END OF NEXT WEEK (7/222/11)

30% of how many?

C64 STANDARD & DELUXE ARE IN PRODUCTION NOW, AND SHOULD ALL SHIP BY THE END OF THE MONTH.

Weren't they already produced, boxed and shipped from that factory in China a month ago?  How many?

VIC SLIM STATUS: All VIC SLIIM units have been shipped.

LOL.  Easy when they come pre-assembled from someone else.  How many?

VIC PRO: Most VIC Pro units have been shipped for orders received through July 3rd. There are a handful of orders still outstanding, and ALL VIC PRO ORDERS RECEIVED UP TO TODAY WILL BE SHIPPED BY THEND OF THIS MONTH.

See above.  How many?
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