Burgermeester
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How long you want to wait for delivery on a purchase is just a pay your money and take your choice decision. It's YOUR decision.
If I'm making something for you and you pay a deposit (or 100% up front, as we offshore types do with Decware) then how long it takes me to build it is YOUR, the customer's, problem. You no like? Go elsewhere.
Accounting for WHEN you will get it (plus/minus a month or two, say) is, however, a problem for me, if I'm making the product. I'm taking your $$, so I should be able to give you delivery info, so you can decide. You might not like what I tell you, so you should be able to bail.
Isn't the real problem not the length of the queue, but the fact that people ordering have no idea when their order will be filled? There's an issue of proportionality here. If I make a product that's in demand, saying, I dunno, four five months to delivery?, that's one thing. Months, okay, who cares.
I dunno when you'll get it. Two three years? is a whole other ballgame. There many well be amps out there, available today, that I might want to consider against a 2 year wait. Thing is, w/o the info, I can't make that decision. (For avoidance of doubt, I am all in on three amps but if I'd known in advance, I'm not so sure.)
Hey, life is a bitch and we're all doing our best. If I take people's money for my quality product, they'll have to wait till I'm done making it, 'cause until it passes my filter, it ain't goin' out the door. But I sure will tell them WHEN they'll get it (roughly) when money changes hands. Again, a matter of months, this doesn't apply so much. A two-year queue, and the gods of business will, I think, weigh in with this: Start running an operation, or issue a disclaimer that you make no guarantees about delivery. In a big banner on the website. That'll wake people up.
Of course, AFAIK anyone is free to cancel their order and get a refund at pretty much any time up to very close to delivery, if the wait thing is too long.
Oh, hell. Maybe I should just start treating this whole thing as a religion, look forward to my delivery a year from now on something I ordered 7 months ago when the wait list looked like 10 months, and shut the f up. I mean, I'm open to suggestions.
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