RBW list-dwellers are a pretty unique pool of people. Consider the amount of items bought and sold here that are paid and shipped with trust and good intentions. I'm projecting a bit, but I don't think any of us would be too thrown off by a pre-sale item. Big-money items are different than a patch, mug or shirt, but I wouldn't put them out of the question, either.
But even outside of the RBW orbit, I can think of Elephant bikes which is doing a run of frames pre-sale, sight unseen http://www.elephantbikes.com/blog/2014/09/14/stock-nfe-project.html I came real close to getting one, and eventually decided not to, NOT because of the pre-sale (which I never questioned for a second) but I just can't justify yet another bike at the moment. Give me a few more months... On Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:20:17 AM UTC-7, jinxed wrote: > > Dave, you hit my biggest worry right on target regarding delays. I was > involved in a custom watch project through another forum that began in 2008 > I think. Those just started shipping last month. It was really unsettling > to see how much hate and negativity was unleashed by the delays, despite > many of them being well out of control of those involved. And the real > kicker...NO money was ever taken in advance. > > It's enlightening to see how many little (big) processes must be set into > motion AND come together correctly just to get a simple shirt to market. > Extrapolate that out to a bike frame and things must get interesting. > Juggling chainsaws maybe. > > Even though my concern is simple screen printing, the idea of selling > something new I've never had in hand feels nervous. I think that's where > the history and reputation comes into play with what you guys do. And > because you do it well it seems safer from this side. > > All for blue stripy wool. All over. Everything. Stripe the planet! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
