@Cryptrade Excellent. Sorry if it's already been announced. If it was I missed/forgot it. =P

@Cryptrade By the way did the final decision for which material is being used get made? Announced?

@Cryptrade
"Do let us know via message how that works out."
Yes, I've already done that. But... well... I just sent you a new e-mail

"@Alicia @Henry No problem :) Got your info and will look into it asap. Thanks for bearing with us."

Like Alicia and Henry I didn't received any answer to the e-mails I sent you the last two weeks !!

You are in control of the information flow. All we have are hunches due to lack of information and your history of saying one thing and doing another . I have said it a numerous times. Look at twine and pebble. Both complex manufactured items. Those teams have managed to keep the backers in the loop and building a team like dialog and a general good vibe surrounding the projects. You manage expectations not the backers. Like I have said your team might be working very hard be we wouldn't know it.

You could have been more efficient and said we don't care what you think.

So I have backed 8 projects. 2 of them I have received. the krona case and cloud ftp. Cloud FTP rocks and works as advertised. The krona case really didn't work as well as I envisioned. So that's a 60 dollar loss. The remaining are moving along nicely, I have not felt the need to comment much. All of my comments to those projects have been of a positive nature. Those are: double fine adventure,twine,pebble, galileo and light table.
Funnely enough cryptrade was what first brough me to kickstarter. Now for the top love:
Cryptrade, you fail to understand the damage you cause to your own reputation by the way you have handled your backers. I don't know how many man hours went into developing your password locker but anyone here would be crazy to trust you with sensitive data. My dad once told me your word is all you have and he was right. when people google your device these forums are what will come up thus effecting future sales. I still don't know if you guys are a scam. You seem to be based out of Lebanon with your servers in michigan according to Whois. You have pretty much broken me. I don't care. If you have stolen my money or failed to deliver due to ineptness than its a 200 dollar education in the pitfalls of kickstarter. Thanks for that.

Larry, I'm feeling worn down by this process. If they're not listening to any real advice over the past several months, I can't imagine why it would suddenly change now.

The updates you're requesting take less time the explanations for not having updates. In the time it took them to type all the emoticons in their excuses, they could have done a few photos.

I have been beating the transparency drum for sometime. Some one else give it try. I may have to to go back to making fun of them. At least I will get some amusement for my lost money.

@Crpytrade

I think all the backers agree that we need a LOT more transparency. In the comments section you guys mention how busy you are with things but lack specific information on what those things are. Updates don't have to be elaborate displays of progress. They can be mere check-ins with the backers.

Regard us backers as a group of venture capitalists but instead of having weekly meetings we rely on kickstarter for information on the progress and development of our investment.

Updating on the comments section is unfeasible as not everyone has the time to scroll through hundreds of comments in search for updates.

When is the next update coming, it's been over 2 weeks since the last update.

We as backers hear more about people getting refunds than we do hearing about the project itself.

Sent via Kickstarter PM. Thank you.

Me too... I've re-sent you my email today. I hope we can solve this quickly and clean.

I tried very hard to not post in here.. but I have request a refund several times, provided *ALL* the info they wanted. Send a request BEFORE April 5th, after April 5th, too... I've still not gotten a refund. Please check your email, find my requests, and process them.

@Cryptrade OH! Ok then. @Larry You talk in riddles my good sir!

Data Traveler, DTVP/4GB, will become the unraveler

Observation is the key that will set you free...
(No i have not had a stroke)

@Larry What are you talking about?

How is the weather in Beirut these days..

9904301 I need to get me some..

Safford and Baker makes a nice salt shaker..

Data Traveler..

@Chris I like that idea.

@Cryptrade: could you set up an update template? For example, Delivery of circuit boards: Awaiting date from supplier; Sign-off of machining tolerances: Expected end May; and other key milestones, not a detailed list and we don't need to know supplier names. The list can grow as more milestones come into view. Even a milestone of Assembling final product: Awaiting delivery of machined components - would show the dependency.

All you would then have to do, once the list is compiled, is update the status where this has changed and maybe a line or two of commentary for exciting events, such as a box of 1000 usb stick cases arrived this week.

Just a suggestion that could save time with updates but give lots of information.

@Cryptrade As for eta's alright. As for updates I am glad to see you guys are doing your best to avoid falling back into "radio silence" as it was deemed. =)

@Cryptrade sounds good :)

@Cryptrade maybe a small update in these comments saying something like "the next 2 days we will be unreachable due to responding to emails 'only' so no update this week." or something like that just to let us know there wont be any update this week so no one should hopefully complain about oh look they missed a week what a bad thing to do or something like that.

@Cryptrade you do make some good points but the whole reasoning behind the weekly updates was (as stated when we first spoke about them) to have an update every Friday "without fail" even if there was no big news or any change since the previous update, which may I add you agreed to and saw it as the best option to help the communications issues, that agreement was your best one out of this whole project and yet you wasn't even able to withstand it and keep the updates coming, granted you are not always at the computer but I did say that time management would need to be upheld in order to keep the updates coming with a time-stamp of 8pm EST (hopefully making the team better at sticking to a timescale) and as we can see you have yet to show us that you have even improved on any skills this proposal was set out to improve on. As stated in the original proposal, you was to have 4 days of non-stop work and on the 5th day you would work up until a set time to leave time for an update to be written up and sent out on or before the time limit of 8pm EST, now all of a sudden you have lacked on the time management and decided (without speaking with your "backers") that you would change the whole update system and only send out updates when you see it fit to let us know, this might I add is your original way of doing updates which did fail so I personally don't see why anyone would return to a system which dramatically displayed many types of failed attempts.

I have never asked you to sit at the screen, what started my latest rounds of questions is you agreed to friday updates and have changed it to we will update as we see fit. You have been the cause of any unrest. I am not even mad or anything like that at all. i am just asking reasonable questions as an investor.

I agree with @Larry, many project I have backed have better skills at communications however I still love this idea and in till the end but it does make me question my decision when nothing but bad things happen and there is nothing to make me think it was the better option to pick, I personally think once we see a real life working product in pics or videos, or even in our hands, then we will all probable still be skeptical as to if we all made the right choice to stay.

Here would be an example:
We got 1200 boards in, it takes 1 month to test. We are waiting for the manufacture to deliver the machine works, they told us they would have it on x. We think it will take 3 months to assemble and test, if all go wells you get in on x date.

Let's say something goes wrong, all you do is tell us.
Crap vendor screwed us, we won't get them until y.

Simple really, open honest communication.

Tim, Do you think that I am not with them? I have not requested a refund. What I want is the business plan that goes along with the business idea. In the real world those two thing go hand in hand. All I have asked for is honest communications and transparency about what is happening. After 6 months, is it unreasonable to ask what the intended plan and delivery date is?
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Hey, Cryptrade guys. Just want to let you know - I'm still with you. I guess I just see Kickstarter differently - I'm investing in your business idea, and you are kind enough to give me stuff for it later, when you work out all the kinks. Deadlines will be missed - after all, stuff happens. It's a learning process, to be sure, but I believe in the concept and have faith that you guys will do everything in your power to make your dream our reality; in the end, we both benefit.

By the way, your idea is really cool, just in case you didn't know. :)