Thread: Helix Update?
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Old 07-24-18, 03:08 PM
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Jipe
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If we look at what happened and is happening for previous kckstarter projects, very often real customers buying the product from the creator pre-order website or from dealers selling the product receive it before backers.

This is currently happening for the Vellobike+ project: produced bikes are first delivered to dealers having sold Vellobike+ to real customers. Only the produced bikes that exceed the dealers demand are delivered to backers.

Even if this seems unfair for some backers who do not understand what being a backer mean, it is normal: the aim of the project (and the backer funding) was to create a new product and sparkle a new business.

So if the business is successful and bikes are ordered by customers, the produced Vellobikes+ must first go to these customers to satisfy these customers. It is not possible to make all these customers wait until all backers have received their bike, this would kill the Vellobike+ business.

I guess the same will happen for Helix if like for the Vellobike+, Helix become a successful business i.e. if Peter has many pre-orders and made agreements with dealer to show Helix in their shops and sell Helix.
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