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Takir, while I understand your arguement and you may be right, it still doesn't seem terribly likely to me. Examine the possibilities:
1. Irex is telling the truth, or something close to it.
2. Irex is lying, but they'll have volume production soon.
3. Irex is lying, and they won't have volume production for a few months.
4. Irex is lying and they'll never have volume production.
If 2 is true, why not just say that? It isn't like they'd lose any customers, and Sony's eink device has been delayed so it wouldn't be too surprising. Also, if there wasn't long to wait then it really wouldn't cause any harm.
If 3 is true, then pretending that they are going to start selling soon would do damage to their customer base. People and businesses are a lot less likely to trust a corporation that tells outrageous lies. Additionally, since the Sony device was already delayed, Irex would not look bad if they had to delay for a few months.
If 4 is true then there is certainly no reason to pretend they are going to start selling devices within a matter of weeks (at the latest). This wouldn't only cause them damage. Better to state it will be "within the year" or something similarly vague. If they are as dishonest as you think, Takir, it would be better still to up the stats on the device with these promises to keep people and investors interested. Acting like it is going to start shipping any time now is only going to lose them customers and investors.
So, imho, they'd have to be really stupid to be telling any significant lie. They gain no benefit from a signficant lie given what they've said and lose a great deal. Maybe their volume is a bit constrained, but that would just mean they are going to get devices to the Papers and other testers first, then start selling them--even with this though, there is little reason to lie to the regular joe, as I am sure we'd understand them looking after their main market first.
It is quite possible they are having difficulties with their shopping cart, as absurd as it sounds. Their focus isn't on individuals, but rather businesses, and you don't sell volume amounts to businesses via a shopping cart online. If they have a very limited number of employees, or rather limited web-capable programmers, then it wouldn't be that surprising if they were focusing on other tasks instead of the shopping cart; so bug might not be fixed for a while, especially with so many newspapers and other businesses apparently being dealt with. Heck, it is even true that web-focused companies have had problems with things like this (they get everything together they want to sell and then realize they don't really know how to go about doing it online). The juxtaposition is absurd, but absurdity happens.
All in all, I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here. It doesn't cost me anything and they don't gain anything from me doing this. It isn't like their potentially lying actually gets them anything from me.
-Drachasor
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