Nor have you seen anyone report that they requested a refund and never got their money back. I "know so much" because I've been on this thread since the start and have read every post... Much easier to do from day one, I'll admit! Only thing i have to do with them is be the owner of number 3 delivered gimbal and like the product, its function and it's robustness (as the recent fall from 90ft up a tree with no gimbal damage whatsoever attests).postnote said:
Pull_Up said:If it was "cheap as chips" then it's almost certainly using a rip-off controller board, not a licenced one. I.e. it's stolen IP. Go and see the price of a licenced SimpleBGC board and decide for yourself if the price you paid means it's genuine. Lookalike stuff is one thing, but stealing other peoples electronics design and ingenuity is quite another... But I'm beginning to suspect it's only me that's bothered on behalf of makers and producers of original stuff.
. I asked him to ship as planned. No problem with RP as far as I'm concerned. There was always a long wait to be expected.
ProfessorStein said:Pull_Up said:If it was "cheap as chips" then it's almost certainly using a rip-off controller board, not a licenced one. I.e. it's stolen IP. Go and see the price of a licenced SimpleBGC board and decide for yourself if the price you paid means it's genuine. Lookalike stuff is one thing, but stealing other peoples electronics design and ingenuity is quite another... But I'm beginning to suspect it's only me that's bothered on behalf of makers and producers of original stuff.
Nope... it's not just you. Bothers me, too.
Plus... knockoffs NEVER last as long as the genuine article.
But if I mortgaged my house, risking my family livelihood, and spent hundreds and hundreds of unpaid hours on something that's brilliant, and just works, and solves loads of problems, etc, etc, surely I deserve to get a return on that? I actually believe that if things get to the point where within weeks there's a rip off version of everything going on sale at half the price the inventor can even make it for what's the point in innovating and taking risks to bring things to market as finished products?DKDarkness said:ProfessorStein said:Pull_Up said:If it was "cheap as chips" then it's almost certainly using a rip-off controller board, not a licenced one. I.e. it's stolen IP. Go and see the price of a licenced SimpleBGC board and decide for yourself if the price you paid means it's genuine. Lookalike stuff is one thing, but stealing other peoples electronics design and ingenuity is quite another... But I'm beginning to suspect it's only me that's bothered on behalf of makers and producers of original stuff.
Nope... it's not just you. Bothers me, too.
Plus... knockoffs NEVER last as long as the genuine article.
Just to clarify, the controller boards are actually not licensed. It is the boot loader (the BaseCam software) that is licensed. There is a open source project called "BruGi" that lets you use the reasonably priced hardware with open source software. Monopoly is the killer of all innovation.
and posted an email, and got a response back from Keri in a little over an hour (on a Sunday at about 8pm EDT). That's better than good customer service, IMHO.P100kle said:
Two people claim their gimbals shipped, Umm 112 shipped!! and when was each order number ordered??DJIp2v said:
dkatz42 said:For what it's worth, I had trouble with my second unit
