--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Julie Marchant onpon4@riseup.net wrote:
I'm not familiar with the terms "first batch" and "second batch" as it pertains to this project. Which was the first and which was the second?
the first batch was the first crowd-funded campaign: august 2016. after that, crowdsupply effectively turned the site into a "pre-order shop". none of the money from this SECOND batch has left crowdsupply's bank account.
for the first batch, $175k, $25k appx is held by crowdsupply because they'll be handling world-wide shipping. $130k of the $175k went to thinkpenguin. $60k of that $130k immediately went to the factory in china. $25k is left in thinkpenguin's bank account, to deal with the laptops when we get to it. $45k of the $60k is left in mike's bank account in china and that is ENTIRELY taken up with components and PCBs for the EOMA68-A20 2.7.5 and Microdesktop 1.7.
so if you're in the first batch there *is* nothing spare to refund *to* anyone. hence the question is absolutely critical because attempting to pull out money which doesn't exist and/or has been allocated for some considerable time does a LOT of damage.
but, the 2nd batch? not a problem at all.
l.