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New shipment date for Homey?
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it's just because you can't wait....
showmodel or a real one?
it is beautiful, although hard to capture on a picture.
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unfortunately it was in between a pile of carrying baskets and a billboard was placed in front of it :-(
Now just waiting for the fanboys to come up with some stupid excuses and "stay positive" BS.
I am sorry but those kind of things just make me angry.
How about just producing Homeys instead of making some nice and shinny displays for MM?!
I just don't get this company anymore...
i recommend all the people that are angry and complaining in the forums not to invest in kickstarter project ever again, you obviously can't handle it. Next time wait for it to be sold in the store.
So what Emile said was plain wrong, there is no talking around that.
And for the last time: myself and a lot of other people here have pre-ordered Homey (delivery date: January) so we should not be treated to all this postponing of delivery date BS that is associated with Kickstarter campaigns (I actually backed a lot there).
PS: Grown up people don't use the word "dude".
exposure like this will help a lot.
they now produce 250 units a week which isn't much but it doesn't matter if a few of those are used for marketing purposes, it could mean your getting your homy one or two day's later.
You can not buy at the store so it is not in retail !!!! it is just marketing DUDE !
So you not a backer but a preorder same deal don't preorder then !! stop wining !!
Can't wait to receive him!
Let's hope everything works out great for everyone.
Criticism / feeback is all good, as long as it is polite... And it's pretty understandable we're all very anxious. My girlfriend already doesn't believe that we'll ever get a Homey, but I'm keeping confident, although I highly doubt / criticise some decisions Athom made. For instance, I'm also dissapointed that Athom took the MediaMarkt and only a few big shops route. Partly because I own a small domotics webshop that is now left out (which I really don't like). I would have thought a bit slower buildup would've been better, but who am I? I'd love to be proven wrong and I hope @Emile and his colleages know what they are doing.
As a customer I just hope they pull it of and will be succesfull. Otherwise Homey will be just be a very pretty paperweight... (Homey without Athom's servers will be close to useless).
Let's keep our spirits up and hope for the best. After all, at this stage, there isn't much else we can do really
Oh and @Emile : I appreciate that you gave an update but it is quite vague. It would be nice, if you can, to give some new estimates not only on GeekBackers, but also the other Backers. I honestly don't mind if these estimates are vague or on the pessimistic side, but any estimate would be nice at this point, really.
the start of this week is that MM is starting to marketing, which i think is still strange this is only being done if real facts and garantees are there due to the company layout. To even see now there is a showroom model (which at MM is always a working product!) is a real middle finger to all of us from @Athom.
It is really the part where they after such a delay and asking for patiance and explaine all delays etc. is the next leason in starting a company, don't screw with your customers and all members on the forum.
Whats next, shipment on the same day as they are also availble in the stores so if we grep one there we have it sooner then waiting for the package? What about internationall shipment?
To say in Dutch: de plank mis slaan
If i'm getting fucked, i like kisses too.
Its clear that kickstarters will receive first then preorders followed by retail, a demo unit (functional or not) will not change that.
Please explain why so many commenters dislike a demo unit in a retail store, I am very positive about seeing a real homy today and knowing one will be send to me soon.
So cool to see how you're all so much involved! Let me clarify some things for you on this topic
As some of you indeed correctly asserted, this Mediamarkt stunt is purely marketing. Thanks to some good contacts at several local Mediamarkt shops, we were given the unique opportunity to have a Homey teaser displayed in their stores! Believe me, as a young and small company, this was a really unique opportunity to make Homey more known to the 'general population', especially timed with their 'VAT-free' days, with lots of traffic.
Rest assured though, this is just a teaser. It's like a trailer or 'coming soon' which we were very happy to be able to realize with these stores. Realizing this did not in any way slow down production (totally different people are on this), or otherwise affected your Homeys in any way.
Of course, we make sure that we ship all pre-orders well before Homey is available in retail (and certainly not just a day or so, so don't worry, you'll have it sooner). As you all know by now, we can't even produce fast enough to do otherwise
In short, we love to see you all this active in our community, also with the future in mind. Of course we as a company are preparing for our next steps, and will certainly learn and experience a lot on the way. These teasers are one of the ways we want to educate the world about Homey and get the word further out, together with you!