Selling Gear: Do these prices seem right?

[foRUMS 4 punkdISCO]

Wow Jay..  Impressive..

Did you ever give us details on the MidiShifter?  I expect you cant do that for obvious reason..?

Keep us updated at every stage.. You will get there.....

Paul
London
www.punkdisco.co.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ibi sum [mailto:ibisum at gmail.com]
> Sent: 21 January 2015 20:48
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: Re: Selling Gear: Do these prices seem right?
> 
> Guys - thanks for your feedback on these prices.  To explain what I’m doing:
> I’m trying to figure out ways that I could fund the MIDIShifter project and get
> it out of prototype stages to the first basic beta release.
> 
> I really do want to return to the music-instrument product category as a
> developer; the missed opportunity with Modulus has sort of kicked up a bit
> of dust around the subject in the last year, and so I think I have to bootstrap
> this some other way.
> 
> Selling all my gear is one easy way - basically I’d need eu15k to get to the
> point where I would have 100 MIDIShifters in my hands, ready to go.
> 
> I don’t really want to do Kickstarter; its much more interesting to me to fund
> the continued development privately, so I’ve thought of selling everything I
> have already, making the MIDIShifter project a success, and then buying it all
> back again when I’ve sold a few thousand MIDIShifters ..
> 
> Of course I’m open to other ideas as to how this could - or could not - work,
> but I have a good opportunity to utilize Wizard23’s MagicShifter design and
> tweak it into a music-making product, and he’s willing to work with me on the
> effort; I’ve got 2 working prototypes already and its a matter of pushing the
> software forward now. If I had the funds, I could fire up Wizard23’s
> production line (we’d have to pay for it up front) and get a few hundred
> devices made - and so .. thats what I’m up to.
> 
> Don’t worry though, I wouldn’t unsub from the -bar, just cause I wouldn't
> have any gear left!  :)
> 
> ;
> --
> Jay Vaughan
> ibisum at gmail.com