12-06-2007, 02:38 PM | #31 |
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Did we puzzle out how the numbering worked? It would be nice to think there are three thousand new Cybooks making their way by barge up the Seine to be repackaged by eager, beret-sporting Bookeeneurs.
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12-06-2007, 02:41 PM | #32 | |
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12-06-2007, 03:42 PM | #33 |
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Well technically, they never actually said they would ship *on* the 5th, just that they were expected to ship between the 5th and the (12th, I think? Or 10th). So if they make the Monday shipping date, they'll have met their promised target.
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12-06-2007, 04:17 PM | #34 | |
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12-06-2007, 04:18 PM | #35 |
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It just keeps amazing me how many companies decide to go the way of 'as little communication as possible'.
How hard would it have been for Bookeen to inform all people that were supposed to have their Cybook shipped on Dec 5th via e-mail that they are late? Instead they have to face dozens of e-mails by customers inquiring about the shipment, which they then can only answer in hurried manner by a copy-paste standard text (which, if I may say so, is rather vague ... I can read between the lines what they are trying to express, yet that is not exactly what the sentences say). A little bit of communication goes a long way. |
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It would have been nice if they'd updated the actual shipping date as they received more information, rather than simply eliminating it, but I don't think it really comes across as a committment. |
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12-06-2007, 04:30 PM | #37 | |
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My order went in 16th Nov and got an order id in the low 5000s; but I think other people ordered later and got a lower number :wry: But maybe I'll still get mine before them anyway |
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12-06-2007, 04:44 PM | #38 | |
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Lots of info for customers would be a very Business 2.0 thing for Bookeen to do. But it's easy for us to offer advice from the sidelines. (And, yes, that is the whole point...) |
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12-06-2007, 07:36 PM | #39 |
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Mine was 2595, and I got the Cybook in the first batch, a month ago, so maybe they're going in packs of 3000.
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Everyone seems to assume that the order IDs are allocated in a monotonically-increasing fashion. I kind of doubt that there were 3000 Cybooks in the first order batch. (Of course, I don't expect Bookeen to tell us how many they've sold.)
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12-07-2007, 03:21 AM | #41 |
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My order was 2428 on the first Sunday they opened the shop. That was at about 10 am . I know of somebody who placed an order a few minutes after me and his number was 3 higher. The next day people were getting numbers in the high 2000 range. Later that week the went into the 3000. So it seems they are simply counting. But I guess they did not start a zero. A start at 2000 seems reasonable. Or perhaps there were some big preorders from shops or resellers.
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12-07-2007, 03:29 AM | #43 |
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That sounds reasonable. But that means they already have outsold the original Cybook with order numbers over 7000 now
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12-07-2007, 10:39 AM | #45 |
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The Booken site isn't letting me log in - is it just me?
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