[Coco] CoCo-X is funding

[Steve Bjork]

I was wondering how long it would take before some with started griping 
about another new CoCo project.

It only took 24 hours!

Gary, you are in good company.  My CoCo 4 project was killed because of 
all the griping over it.  (They took the fun out of the project.)
I even had one guy gripe about it working under windows and said 
Microsoft was paying me off to make sure it was not under Linux. 
Needless to say, that was not true.

Don't let them get to you!  I say work on making your product the best 
it can be and deal with exporting headaches once everything is said and 
done.

By the way, the last time I had to export a tech product to another 
country there was a 50% import duty.  The only way around it was 
building most of it here in the States with last part added there.  The 
protectionism of some countries just makes it too costly to export to them.

Steve

On 3/26/2013 7:11 PM, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> GaryI just want to point out that you will get a bunch more support if you take away that shipping to US only. It looks like a big "Middle finger" to everyone outside the US and if you can't be bothered to ship a sticker out in a plain envelope to someone supporting you outside the US, then that just turns people off.
> I know you said here, you would try to help the people on the list, but what about everyone else? If you are going to ask for people to help you, you in turn should reconsider this. I know If I ran kickstarter, I would make this an absolute must to list it. People will think you are just another arrogant American begging for money, without knowing any better.
> -Sorry for my rant all, but this really burns me, when I see this on e-bay. As a seller, I at least try to ship stuff all over the world. The "excuses" are lame and just boil down to people can't be bothered with custom forms. When I ship with paypal, Paypal does all the paper work for me, and all I have to do is hit the print button. 		 	   		
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