iRex Technologies files for Chapter 11

[deadite66]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

Is there someone who ever bought an Irex out of this forum?

me, one of the first iliad buyers (order number 512) we had to agree to use pre-release firmware.

at the time we had a choice between irex or sony for an eink device.

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

A mere 30 people company... and they run up 10 millions debts: that's crazy!

How many devices did they actually sell in all of these years? 10? 100? Is there someone who ever bought an Irex out of this forum?

I have 2 devices, an Iliad (may-jun 2007) and the DR800S (jan-feb 2010).
I'm pretty happy with them. The best in the market, no doubts.

[harryE123]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

A mere 30 people company... and they run up 10 millions debts: that's crazy!

How many devices did they actually sell in all of these years? 10? 100? Is there someone who ever bought an Irex out of this forum?

That's a ludicrous and inflammatory comment. No, no one ever bought an irex in this forum...

[sarikan]

Sorry to hear these sad news. Though it has given me some blues, my dr1000s still beats many devices on the market, if not all, based on my requirements.
I can't say they've done the best I'd expect in terms of software updates etc, but what they provided at the end was (and is) still better than many giant corporations.
Now I have to hope that my dr1000s does not break down again. Or else I'll have to look for a replacement, which I still do not see around.
Plastic logic device is still to become available, and none of the new devices offer the combination of large screen + pen annotation + e-ink.
Really bad news..

[JRG]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

A mere 30 people company... and they run up 10 millions debts: that's crazy!

How many devices did they actually sell in all of these years? 10? 100? Is there someone who ever bought an Irex out of this forum?

Well, I knew of iRex products before I visited this forum, but it was the activity and contributors [including iRex developers] here that persuaded me to buy the DR800SG. And I'm very glad that I did --- nothing else out there is really as satisfactory for my purposes. And if I could find another one, I could easily find a colleague who would buy it.

[stonehat]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

A mere 30 people company... and they run up 10 millions debts: that's crazy!

Irex management gambled that they could sell a certain number of devices, so borrowed money to build those devices, then couldn't sell them, so didn't get any income to pay back the loan, so went bust.
Nothing to do with the number of employees, everything to do with bad management, and a lesson for others: When moving on to new products, don't dump your previous products and users

did they overshoot there hand? i don't know. i am glad i bought a couple of those DR800SG devices. for us still fantastic. took them on the 2 week trip and enjoyed it.

question will be if they can manage to get something going again. they should lower the price though, but it should work.

[henkvdg]

Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd

They dropped the iLiad support, no epub for it. They was selling a dead device. They drop the support of their e-reader in europe. I have black lines in my iLiad and iRex can not fix the problem 'cause they have no screen. There are people with dr1000 and iLiad broken, in warranty, and they can not repair it.
I lost my money for a device that is broked again (second time in less that an year) and I remember who was defending iRex for WRONG choices and bad support for the consumers.

I also had black lines at the top of my screen for about 1 or 2 years. I noticed they disappeared now and then. And as there seemed to be a relation to a button (the 2nd from above), I took courage and disassembled my Iliad.
I bent the long circuitboard parallel to the page-bar a little, by putting a piece of paper, a few times folded, at the edge, so it puts it under a little bit of strain and now my screen looks like brand new!
It appears to me the black line problem is caused by the manifacturing process. I am quite happy again with my Iliad, although it is quite slow (maybe because of battery-saving). I have the very primitive Epub-reader on board - wish it did a better job - no margins, no formatting at the moment.
I found out about Calibre (very nice program). It can convert e-book formats.
So I am enthusiastic again. I was one of the early owners of an Iliad.

Henk

[Innobrain]

There are some promising tweets regarding the continuation of the company formerly known as Irex. Check this link: http://tinyurl.com/2crgujz. (It's poorly translated by google..) For the Dutch article: http://tinyurl.com/26ta3zo

The liquidator thinks he knows which company will continue Irex's activities by the end of July. Perhaps the 28 workers keep their jobs because they have the necessary expertise.

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by Innobrain

There are some promising tweets regarding the continuation of the company formerly known as Irex. Check this link: http://tinyurl.com/2crgujz. (It's poorly translated by google..) For the Dutch article: http://tinyurl.com/26ta3zo

The liquidator thinks he knows which company will continue Irex's activities by the end of July. Perhaps the 28 workers keep their jobs because they have the necessary expertise.

very good news.
Keep on, ex-ir-ex people!!!

[Shaggy]

Originally Posted by harryE123

oh I see, I thought they were under full phillips ownership, not merely funded by them.

They were spun off from Phillips years ago into a separate company. I don't know for sure, but I doubt there has been any ownership/funding from Phillips for a long time.

[Shaggy]

Originally Posted by Innobrain

There are some promising tweets regarding the continuation of the company formerly known as Irex. Check this link: http://tinyurl.com/2crgujz. (It's poorly translated by google..) For the Dutch article: http://tinyurl.com/26ta3zo

The liquidator thinks he knows which company will continue Irex's activities by the end of July. Perhaps the 28 workers keep their jobs because they have the necessary expertise.

Definitely good news. Glad to hear Matthijs, Gertjan, and the rest may still have a future with the company.

[sarikan]

Originally Posted by yacoob

It would be good to make that thread sticky, to make sure people new to iRex are aware of the situation, when they visit the forum.

Very good suggestion.

[physics@war]

So now Irex is bankrupted. I wonder if when someone take over the company, will the device that I sent in to be fixed will resume the repairment and be given back to me? I am trying to be optimistic here.

Any idea? Thanks

[ericshliao]

Originally Posted by physics@war

So now Irex is bankrupted. I wonder if when someone take over the company, will the device that I sent in to be fixed will resume the repairment and be given back to me? I am trying to be optimistic here.

Any idea? Thanks

Since iRex goes bankrupt, all assets holding by iRex are to be shared by all iRex's creditors. The device that you sent to iRex is still your property (as long as you can prove it), not iRex's, you should be equitable to claim it back from iRex with the liquidator's or bankrupt-administrator's consent.
However, how can we repair our iRex devices without iRex?

Added:
Have you got the refund before iRex went bankrupt? If not, you may have to wait for some time (the process of liquidation) to get only partial of the amount.