Yes it is a bit unusual, as Wlad's paper are too. Peter On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Robert Leguillon < robert.leguil...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> As It stands right now, no money is actually tied to these "preorders." > I'm sure that in A.R's world, they serve to legitimize his claims. For a > potential investor, it would be requiring to hear that he has already > received 100,000 firm commitments (and actually sold fourteen 1MW plants!). > As one of the sillier examples of his preorder method, let's take Wladimir > as an example: > > Wladimir Guglinski February 8th, 2012 at 2:59 AM > > Dear Mr. Andrea Rossi > > May I pre-order 1000 eCats? Firstly I will ask to send me 5 eCats. After > selling them, I will ask more 10, and after selling them more 20… more 40… > etc. > > Regarded Wlad > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:58:31 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Vo]:100000 e-cats preordered > From: peter.gl...@gmail.com > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > > > What, exactly, do mean > 100,000 orders for > a product that is not still on the market? > Is this a proof of the products value and performances? The workld market > for such a product is in the range of hundreds of millions. > Peter > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Andre Blum <andre_vor...@blums.nl> wrote: > > I was thinking: > > As a good example, the ecatnews.com headline reads: "Andrea Rossi: Almost > 100,000 Domestic eCat Orders". > > How many of you have (subconsciously?) read this as "domestic orders for > an eCat" instead of "orders for a domestic eCat"? And how many of you have > assumed for other reasons that this preorder list was limited to > individuals? In fact I think it is not limited to that in any way. > > If I were Rossi I'd carry a notebook and jot down everyone with a big > mouth : individuals, small business owners, large business representitives, > for the numbers they are even half-jokingly mentioning. > > And why not? In the end all these "orders", including my own (which I put > in on the first day the list was opened, when it was priced substantially > higher than it is now), are subject to that one conditional: the device > should work. If *he* knows it works, he knows the condition is met, and > there is no real reason not to accept these words as a preorder, even if > the one who said it was not convinced himself at the time. > > Andre > > > On 02/10/2012 08:38 AM, zer tte wrote: > > http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=510&cpage=46#comment-182601 > > replying to someone asking how many e-cats where pre ordered already, > rossi made the following comment : > > "about 100,000" > > As the pre order announce occurred about 81 days ago this gives us about > 1234 pre orders everyday, well i guess rossi's mailbox must be pretty > crowded these days and i think the assistant sorting out all those orders > every day really deserves our gratitude for doing such an insane job. So > how many of these ordered 10+ units ? everyone ? this still makes at least > 123 orders to sort everyday, 100 ? we go down to 12 orders per day, seems > more manageable, but anyway something seems a bit off with these numbers. > > > > > > -- > Dr. Peter Gluck > Cluj, Romania > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
