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  1. sqidd
    Very true, shipping does vary. For the same size package I have seen Mandrake charge between 6000-20000. They're all over the place! I haven't seen a DX Valk go out at 4500. I guess Nakano is the unicorn branch. Not that we generally have much of a choice but if I can I'll be going through Nakano when possible. I was using $75 as an average. Your mileage may vary.
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    You have no idea how many members would want how many units. You also don't know how many units they get allocated. You have not one shred of data to warrant jumping to any conclusion. Also, there is an easy solution for that. I am in no way suggesting that an MW member go without while others get multiples. If they have enough units to cover multiples, great. If they don't, impose limits. It could be as easy as everyone puts and order in for how many units they want. Be it one, two or three. Once all of the orders are in and if they have enough allocation to cover it great, done deal. If they don't they can simply reduce the units going to people that wanted multiples. See, easy.
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    But that's not a Macross unit. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
  4. sqidd
    I think you should sent up a Macross World pre order system where you take our pre orders the day before release day/before you sell to anyone else. Some things to consider: -Not limiting people to one unit. I suggest three. -I don't know about everyone else but I would be more than happy to pay $20/ unit extra for pre orders if I don't have to deal with pre order madness. -Offer DHL shipping. What's in it for you? -You could probably sell all of you allocated items in one place (here). You could potentially figure out a situation where you ship big boxes with lots of units over to the US and have someone who re-ships them to their final destination. This could save a bundle on shipping. There would be trust/security hurdles to figure out though. On a smaller scale I know of a couple people I would be willing to buy units for here in the States and forward them on to them once they came in. For example, I may buy 15 units but they're for 5 people. There is a big shipping savings shipping 15 units at a time. -You can have a built in slightly larger margin. I'm shocked that no online outlets have come on here and tried something like this. Talk about a captive audience/direct marketing. In my business the boards are inundated by retailers trying to get directly to the customer base.
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    Kakazaki pre orders were easy because it was a web exclusive and not exactly the most popular valk. Your lesson will unfortunately not work a lot of the time. PO's on other DX VF-1's have been slaughterhouses with a buy window of only a few seconds.
  6. sqidd
    BOP looked lie a dumpster fire from the beginning to me.
  7. sqidd
    Plus $75 for shipping.
  8. sqidd
    It's a safe bet NY didn't get allocated as many units as they sold.
  9. sqidd
    To quote my dad, "Do trailers ever make the movie look bad?" That said, it looks like it could be good. 007 and the assistant DA vs Mr Robot and The Red Dragon.
  10. sqidd
    This just started. They only released 3 episodes and from what I understand we get one a week from here on out. Ewwwwwwwwwww, yuck.
  11. sqidd
    A lot of people complain about slow pacing. I think it's the Michael Bay effect. If the first Star Wars was released today people would complain about the slow pacing. I appreciate slow pacing. You know, stories.
  12. sqidd
    Awwww gross, they're leaking protoculture.
  13. sqidd
    Come on now, I'm at least 4% more adorable than that!
  14. sqidd
    I just refrain from wearing my readers when I'm looking at it. Problem solved.
  15. sqidd
    It won't get there Monday.
  16. sqidd
    I've got a buddy at Ford Performance (formerly SVT) who was a big part of the GT350, was the Performance And Standards engineer on the new GT500 (this translated into him spending most of his time working on cooling/aero) and he just moved over to the very small GT Supercar team. They keep trying to push him into the executive program and he keeps resisting. Smart move. Money doesn't do you any good if you're not happy. Right now he's either solving problems, in the wind tunnel; or at a race track somewhere doing testing (he's also a driver). Trade that for management? Not on your life!
  17. sqidd
    If I were to win the Lotto (gotta play to win though) I would spend silly money on "toys". I have to work with what I can beg borrow or steal. I love making/testing/developing things. Unfortunately most of my time is spend running the damn business. It's one of those good problems I suppose. I'm hoping over the next few years to get people trained up on handling a lot more of the day to day so I can get back in the shop. I get offers to develop all sorts of race car stuff that I can't do. It's frustrating. Three years ago I got to develop the intake manifold/ air to water intercooler for one of the OEM's NHRA program. I......was.......in.......heaven! The equipment and budget I had access too was amazing. We were wearing $75K motors out on the dyno daily. They were good for 40 pulls and then had to be rebuilt. Production based 5.2L V8's that spin to 10,500rpm and make 1400hp wear out really fast. Imagine that. When we ran into stuff during testing I could go down to the fab guys, tell them what I wanted, and they would rock it out on the spot. It was incredible. I had them building a custom heat exchanger tower and ice tank by the end of the first day of testing. We were running through 50lb of ice per pull. They had guys running all over the area buying all of the ice for the first couple of days. Then they got a couple of huge ice machines in there. They were not ready for that. My design was extracting a lot more heat than they were used to. I got to try things I had only been able to dream about for years. Most of them actually worked! Every day I crossed my fingers and hoped they didn't find out I would have done it all for free. The test results were worth a fortune to me though. It wouldn't have been for "free". Now I can plug my designs into just about anything at this point. I don't want to come off sounding like I'm some sort of genius. I didn't really do anything impressive aside from have the idea of going big time. At the end of the day all I did was figure out how to throw a lot more water speed at the problem. A whole lot more. It extracted more heat. Shocker. It was tricky to get the water moving that fast without issues. But it wasn't that hard. Now I'm spending most of my time doing admin crap.
  18. sqidd
    3D printing has made my life a LOT easier. I used to glue sheets of MDF together and machine prototypes out of it by hand. Once that was dialed I would draw it and then get a CNC'd prototype done. Which you know costs a fortune. Invariably something(s) would be wrong, corrections would be made and then production would start. Now I go straight to drawing and then a 3D printed prototype. I can get 8-10 3D printed prototypes done (I've never needed more than 2) for the cost of one CNC'd aluminum one. And as you noted the turn around time is super quick on 3D printing. I have a place on Brooklyn that does them for me. The big pieces are rough;y 18x15x6". They get them to me in 4-5 days. I don't know how long they take to print but it's got to be a while. From what I understand that's on the big end of 3D printing. Have you seen the 3D printed Titanium exhaust that Koenigsegg does? Man, that guy gets to play with all of the cool toys!
  19. sqidd
    I'll check that out. These were easy. I couldn't sleep last night and knocked that out half awake. I did screw up and didn't break all the edges though. Both of my subcontracted CNC shops prefer I don't because of how they like to code the machines. They break the edges "on their end". I didn't even think of it until my buddy texted me pics a few hours ago. Whoops! That's what prototypes are for.
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  21. sqidd
    What hands would you want to use?
  22. sqidd
    I didn't even notice that was two different people. How about you're both winners! Ping me when I post up production stuff.
  23. sqidd
    Good, I'm not the only one who thinks that.
  24. sqidd
    2700, 2701, whatever it takes. Mr Mom joke. As someone who is super hands on, I love this bit. I have everyone around me saying it all the time. There is a longer version of the scene which is worth watching.
  25. sqidd
    That's exactly the Valk that's getting the prototypes.
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