Cheers Dirk. Have a good Christmas. Let's hope there's some good news on the tweeters early in the new year.
Dirk, hoeveel daai deng in rand?
My mom works in Paarl so no need for shipping..., I need to replace a tweeter on my monitor speakers, and being old, I won't just get one, so I need a new set of 2.
And yes, people, this time of year, its madness getting anything done here, from about the day after tommorrow it will start normalising.
My mom works in Paarl so no need for shipping..., I need to replace a tweeter on my monitor speakers, and being old, I won't just get one, so I need a new set of 2.
And yes, people, this time of year, its madness getting anything done here, from about the day after tommorrow it will start normalising.
Hi Dirk,
What's happening?
It's coming up to a year since I sent you the money for the drivers!
I hope there is some positive news.
Please send a reply explaining the situation.
Cheers,
Ralph.
What's happening?
It's coming up to a year since I sent you the money for the drivers!
I hope there is some positive news.
Please send a reply explaining the situation.
Cheers,
Ralph.
Sorry about vanishing for such a long time. My wife has decided that a divorce was in order and I have been sorting out the mess for the last month. Anyway, the good news is; NO MORE WAF TO WORRY ABOUT! I will follow up on the tweeters shortly.
I will have one extra pair of tweeters. Estimated Rand price of R800 per pair.
regards
Dirk
I will have one extra pair of tweeters. Estimated Rand price of R800 per pair.
regards
Dirk
Sorry to hear that Dirk- although that does seem a rather extreme reaction just because her tweeters haven't turned up...
C'mon Dirk, that's another month- this is getting silly. I'm sure we all respect the efforts you've gone to and your personnal difficulties at the moment, but we need some information on this group buy. We've really had nothing on this since the tweeters were supposed to be in the process of being shipped, many months ago. If there's a serious problem- and given the time this is taking, there is for our purposes- we need to know what it is. Were the tweeters actually shipped? Did the ship sink? Has your local dealer folded? Is the Chinese factory out of tweeters and yet to manufacture a new batch? We need to know! If you are still waiting for information at least tell us what you're waiting from and from whom. I'm in the fortunate position of already having a pair of these units, so apart from the money tied up and the general frustration of waiting, it's not a major inconvenience for me, but many of those involved with this group buy have projects totally stalled. Even if the news is no news please post an update.
All the best,
Toaster
All the best,
Toaster
Well, it's now a year since I sent the money to Dirk for the tweeters.
Sadly, I haven't heard anything since he last posted here.
I tried sending a email through the forum, but doesn't accept email in this manner.
I have his email address however, so I sent an email directly. It bounced and I received a reply from the webmaster saying 'account is full'
The account is similar to other free email services, remaining active for 90 days. So at the moment it is still an active but he obviously hasn't looked at his email is quite some time.
Anyone else with ideas, experiences or comments?
Cheers,
Ralph.
Sadly, I haven't heard anything since he last posted here.
I tried sending a email through the forum, but doesn't accept email in this manner.
I have his email address however, so I sent an email directly. It bounced and I received a reply from the webmaster saying 'account is full'
The account is similar to other free email services, remaining active for 90 days. So at the moment it is still an active but he obviously hasn't looked at his email is quite some time.
Anyone else with ideas, experiences or comments?
Cheers,
Ralph.
Not really.
If anyone has any more details as to who Dirk is, I could try contact him locally....
If anyone has any more details as to who Dirk is, I could try contact him locally....
I sent a message to Dirk a couple of weeks ago asking him to get in touch. This did not appear to bounce, but I've had no reply. Although the possibility exists that Dirk is too busy with his personnal life to respond, I think that sadly we have to proceed on the assumption that Dirk's mails have simply been prevarication and misdirection. No real explaination has ever been given of the long delay and I'm reluctantly coming to the view that we've been tricked, although I'd be delighted to be proved wrong.
Tubenut, Dirk was supposed to be ordering through a local distributor. Can you check who the RSA distributor is for Aurum Cantus and check if a large order is stalled with them or any local dealers who handle AC. I don't expect there's more than one distributor and there's unlikely to be many dealers either, so it shouldn't be that difficult. Another possibility is contacting iKobo to see if they can contact Dirk on our behalf or exert any leverage. It may also be possible to contact the Chinese factory to see if they're aware of an order to the RSA over the last few month, assuming they're inclined to tell us. Unfortunately I'm very busy over the next few days, but I will try to look at some of this stuff myself next week. Better yet would be if Dirk reads this and replies.
All the best,
Toaster.
Tubenut, Dirk was supposed to be ordering through a local distributor. Can you check who the RSA distributor is for Aurum Cantus and check if a large order is stalled with them or any local dealers who handle AC. I don't expect there's more than one distributor and there's unlikely to be many dealers either, so it shouldn't be that difficult. Another possibility is contacting iKobo to see if they can contact Dirk on our behalf or exert any leverage. It may also be possible to contact the Chinese factory to see if they're aware of an order to the RSA over the last few month, assuming they're inclined to tell us. Unfortunately I'm very busy over the next few days, but I will try to look at some of this stuff myself next week. Better yet would be if Dirk reads this and replies.
All the best,
Toaster.
Someone asked me to see what I could do because I'm a moderator and also happen to be a South African. I've just sent Dirk an email (which bounced : "account is full (quota exceeded") asking for an explanation.
Although diyaudio cannot be held responsible for the GB gone south. I will ask a friend of mine to track down Dirk to ask what the situation is and what can be done to salvage the situation. (I can't promise results and I can't even promise that my friend will look into it)
Although diyaudio cannot be held responsible for the GB gone south. I will ask a friend of mine to track down Dirk to ask what the situation is and what can be done to salvage the situation. (I can't promise results and I can't even promise that my friend will look into it)
Any help at all would be much appreciated.
Of course diyAudio cannot be blamed, we go into these things with our eyes open, just trusting people are honest.
However I have been wondering if there is any way of improving protection, such as possibly a registration system. As it stands we are very open to scams.
Having particiipated in other very successful group buys, it would be a shame not to have them.
Of course diyAudio cannot be blamed, we go into these things with our eyes open, just trusting people are honest.
However I have been wondering if there is any way of improving protection, such as possibly a registration system. As it stands we are very open to scams.
Having particiipated in other very successful group buys, it would be a shame not to have them.
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