For how long will a specific Decent model be in stock?
For the first time in our history, we're managing to build machines faster than we can sell them, which is great.
This is mostly because I handed over factory management to Nicole a few months ago, and she's doing a better job at it that I did. I was managing to get 200 to 250 Decents made per month, but she's cranked it up to 250 to 300 per month. You can see real monthly numbers of factory here: https://decentespresso.com/batch_chart
Because we're now in stock for all machines, I've rewritten the “Queue” page to focus on what we have, instead of …. what we don't have! You can see it here: https://decentespresso.com/queue
it also displays what machines we sent sent out, and which machines are just about to go out. A happy face will appear next to your machine on the queue page (on the “about to go out” or “just shipped”) once you buy from us.
For each v1.43 model we make, you can see how many we have, and an estimate of how many days of inventory that represents. I'm extrapolating based on the past 30 days of sales, which is also there.
Note that v1.42 machine inventory and sales are not included, as they used a now-obsoleted tracking mechanism, which assumed “we build them as fast as we sell them”, and thus didn't worry about tracking inventory.
I've also obsoleted the “Showroom” concept for v1.43 machines, where each buyer would get invited to Basecamp, and then browse 360º videos and still photos of our inventory, and pick one. As virtually all our machines are the same now, this just introduced an extra (and confusing for many) step.
Machines that do have a cosmetic defect, or are just plain different in some way, will continue to get listed in the Bazaar (email me if you want an invite to that)
Next week, I'll finish programming a replacement for the Showroom. If you want to, you'll be able to browse 360º videos at 4k resolution, of every v1.43 machine in stock. And, you can tell us you want a specific serial #. You will NOT need to have purchased from us to browse all this detailed info.
But, crucially, you won't be required to browse videos of our machines any longer. We'll send a machine automatically, the next working day after your order comes in. More about that new process soon.
-john
Updated 2021/11/20