Comments on: Are chumbys for sale, or what?

By: Itdoessuck

Itdoessuck — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:42:12 +0000

There is international shipping; if you pay a scalper an extra $50 over the real price you can buy one on eBay. AFAIK “Chumby” will not accept USA money orders; only USA-based credit cards.

So if you want to have one shipped to a friend in USA by sending this company a money order “Chumby Industries” has figured out how to screw you on that one too. PayPal? – nope. It’s bizzare; almost as if they’re trying very hard to keep anyone who doesn’t live in the USA from buying one. I can just hear their evil laugh; Bwaa Ha Ha haaaaa!!!!

By: elartikler

elartikler — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:57:12 +0000

Nice post man!!

By: Vikram D

Vikram D — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:40:29 +0000

Will chumby support the google android OS and Application APIs?
That could be really cool. Please ??

By: Ganson

Ganson — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:25 +0000

As far as international shipping goes, that is the easy part. Getting the Chumby approved in those other countries that is the hard and expensive part (it is a wireless device, and has to adhere to each countries standards and laws like any WiFi enabled device).

By: Andrius Kulikauskas

Andrius Kulikauskas — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:48:32 +0000

I’m excited to learn that you are shipping. My laboratory Minciu Sodas is organizing the development of Includer http://www.includer.org a device for Africans and others with marginal Internet access to be able to read and write emails which they can then upload at their Internet cafe and thereby participate in online community. We’re also taking the open source hardware approach and very interested in dissecting the Chumby and adapting it. I hope we might work together! and perhaps you know who might like to work with us?

By: Paul Hart

Paul Hart — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:01:07 +0000

Yeah I’d agree with international shipping being the highest priority. I got an insiders invite to purchase but being based in the the UK I was sorely disappointed :-(

By: JohnJones

JohnJones — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:48:27 +0000

I get it but please dont delude yourself your in the CE market and to succeed your going to have take into account the mantra of
“get big, get niche, or get out”

I suspect to even get internationally you are going to have to ship by the pallet load that means partners (or distributors as people insist on calling them ;-) they then can manage the returns and sales process (the more expensive items in a company in terms of person hours if you outsource production to the far east) thats pretty easy if you have done it before and know a network but its hard to build one

I really like what you guys are doing but can see some pitfalls and if you want any advice feel free to contact me

here hoping for your success

regards

John jones

By: Dave Eaton

Dave Eaton — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:35:51 +0000

I’ve been watching you guys for a while, and I am really excited by the business and product model you are trying to create.

I am quite sure you are going to have a lot of people “not get it”. To some of us, though, this is a dream come true- a consumer product that will bend to our will, that will be an outlet for our own ideas. Fantastic.

It’s early yet, and half the fun (from the outside) is seeing if you guys can pull this off. If nothing else, you will have performed a really seminal experiment. But I think that there is the chance that Chumby will become a definitional example of a new kind of product.

By: james

james — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:14:36 +0000

testing comments!

By: Van

Van — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:30:52 +0000

Simply follow the balance of innovation and upgrading that Apple has in the past – offer larger increments, but don’t release your product until you feel it is _ready to garner the reviews that you’re looking for – and you should have the same wild success that they’ve had. Best of luck!