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Name your price for an Elevation Dock, help our startup

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11 pointsnetmau518 comments

If I had an iPhone, this would be right up my alley, but I don't. Anyways, when I went to the product site, something didn't seem consistant. (https://elevationdocks.herokuapp.com/)

If you scroll down the page a little, you say something along the lines of "help us fund our next product" vs "pre-order"(in the headline). If your real goal is to muster up some money for new product dev, say that in your headline! I would be more apt to give you extra money in your name your price offer if it was more clear that this was explicitly going toward future product development vs just a pre-order. I know the money ends up in the same place either way, but I hope you get my drift.

Thanks Mason. I was really torn on which point to emphasize.

Love the name your price part, but even more than that I love the 'what we make' part. Puts fair burden on me.

FYI.. Posterous is blocked by my corporate internet. Thus, all the images on your site are blocked except your face at the bottom.

Based on your corporate access policies, access to this web site ( http://posterous.com/ ) has been blocked because the web category "Social Networking" is not allowed.

Notification codes: (1, WEBCAT, BLOCK-WEBCAT...

Ouch. Bummer. Were you still able to read the article though?

Yes, text is all there. Some sites like this use posterous as a CDN for their images, but all i get is broken images.

Yeah in this case we didn't do that. I'll talk with Dave and see about looking out for this in the future. Thanks for the heads up!

Just put in an order for one; looks awesome. Also thanks to Dave for the willingness/flexibility to ship a unit to the EU.

I know this guy and he's awesome. The world's better off if you help his startup out :) I have no iphone though...

I just tried to order one and got an error on the order page ("Invalid token"?!?). I tried again, and now I'm worried I've ordered 2.

Great idea, and it's nice to see you experimenting with different models for gauging interest & setting pricing.

There are no duplicate charges. The invalid token is an error produced on the processing side. You are all good. Let us know if there are any other concerns.

Thanks very much!

This is definitely a creative way to resell products but are you taking the profits that should goto the person that is actually trying to create the product?

We'd like to think that by funding the original Kickstarter campaign at such a high level, we helped make it possible for the product to be made in the first place. I'm certain that the project's owner is still going to make money on our units too.

"Estimated Shipment May, 2011" - I see what you mean by remarkable services and exceptional products...

Thanks for the heads up. We fixed the typo.

Check it out, great guy..

Bummer, looks like the post got killed. Why?

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