[mythtv-users] AVerMedia M179 cards from ebay

[Lance Tost]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Scott Blomfield wrote:
> Personal correspondance that took place between myself and Grant on
> Friday (21st) indicated that *all* cards from the first auction (Fri
> 14th) had been shipped as of end of business Friday 21st (I have that
> email if anybody wants it). I know that quite a few people from this

Well, I had personal correspondance with Gran *today* (11/24) and this is 
what he had to say (full email at bottom of this one):

> Since we will be going with UPS Ground, I do not believe there 
> will be a tracking number, but if I can get...

This tells me that at least *my* cards haven't been shipped yet (from the 
first auction) which kind of puts a hole in the story he told you.



> list ordered cards; some of them ordered pretty early on in the auction
> although I ordered very late in the auction. I find it difficult to
> believe that every card has been shipped, but nobody on the list who
> ordered one has gotten one yet, or has gotten theirs and not said so in
> one of the threads. I find it even more difficult to believe that some
> of the people who ordered one early in the auction would not have
> received one yet if what Grant says is true. I believe he thinks he is
> telling the truth, perhaps he is just being misinformed by the shipping
> department. So like I said, I have no doubt that I will get my cards. I
> just very much doubt that I will get them any time soon, regardless of
> what Grant says. 
> 
> AVerMedia should spruce up their shipping department before they attempt
> this again. Even a delay notification would have been preferable to what
> happened.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kim gross [mailto:kgross at jensalt.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:17 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] AVerMedia M179 cards from ebay
> > 
> > 
> > Lance Tost wrote:
> > 
> > >Anyone get theirs yet?  I haven't.  Here's the response I got from 
> > >AVerMedia about them... is it jiving with what others are 
> > hearing from 
> > >them?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Hello Lance,
> > >We have had some shipping delays due to the overwhelming 
> > response to this
> > >auction.  We were originally going to ship all items by US 
> > Mail in order 
> > >to
> > >keep costs down, however we were forced to switch it to UPS 
> > ground since 
> > >US
> > >Mail required too much manual processing.  Since we will be 
> > going with UPS
> > >Ground, I do not believe there will be a tracking number, 
> > but if I can get
> > >one I will forward it to you.  Please let me know if you have any 
> > >questions.
> > >Thank you.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >Grant Woods
> > >Marketing Manager
> > >AVerMedia Technologies, Inc.-USA
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > Here is my responce from last thursday.
> > 
> > 
> > Hello Kim,
> > All items from this auction have been shipping throughout the 
> > week. Sorry
> > for any delays, our shipping department has been working very 
> > hard to get
> > all 120+ units out to everyone. Sorry again.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>