QUOTE(Colin @ May 26 2007, 09:29 AM) [snapback]403416[/snapback]
This shit has been bugging me lately and overall its pretty indicitive of where both this board and Avant is headed.
The ridiculous delays and not that I give a fuck about SyntheSIZE at this point but for ex,the final still isn;t out and then we've got to hear about all of these big projects on the horizon.
WTF?
Pnbviously that is nonsense,consideringthe shit you have had lined up for months hasn't even manifested into reality.
WRT the Phenogen:
What kind of effort can it possibly take to type up a description and list it in the Avant store or pawn it off to Nutraplanet?
There must be a sizable amount of uncapped Phenogen left over,otherwise why would Par post that it would be up for sale:
http://www.avantlabs.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=24178I know how frustrating it is from a consumer standpoint because I'm a consumer, too.
But consider the other side of things.
1) It takes a lot of capital to come out with a new product. And we're not doing just A product, we're doing many, as well as something else entirely. It's very, very expensive.
2) Products don't plan, market, and manage themselves. You have to source materials, some of which are extremely difficult to get a hold of, line up manufacturers, etc. Aminogen, for example, has to be licensed from Triarco, which is a huge pain in the ass in itself because of the hoops you have to jump through to satisfy them. And yep, that is what held up production of SyntheSIZE final, which is finally back on track, thank God.
3) Manufacturers are notiously unreliable sometimes in this industry. A quote of a three week lead time can easily double in reality.
And I could list more.
This is not to make you feel sorry for us or even to provide excuses for what has gone on in the past, it's just to provide some context for you to understand why delays happen and why they're so hard to avoid.
We could easily throw together a crap product without much thought behind it and launch it just to avoid delays, but where would that get us?