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Originally Posted by rcentros
In the news section there's an article linked quoting someone at Kobo on the need to diversify vendors so not all manufacturing is from one region. So they're definitely having troubles getting the Kobos manufactured. Still, if Walmart sold the Kobo Clara, they should give more information than the one word, "Delayed." That's horrible customer service.
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I hadn't seen that section before, so I found and read the thread you're probably referring to. Thanks for this. That's exactly the kind of information/speculation I was hoping to find. The link to a
Publishing Perspectives interview, in which the Kobo CEO partially addresses the supply chain issues was worth reading, even if there wasn't a lot of detail. At least someone is saying something instead of just disappearing altogether. It does confirm pandemic related supply chain issues and the notion that they'll probably want to manufacture in more locations. That's been forecast for a lot of industries since the beginning of the pandemic.
Interesting that at least some of these third party vendors are buying up inventory via bots and scalping it. I wondered how they were operating. All the more reason to avoid them, at least for me.