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Old 07-24-2006, 05:13 PM
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Default Semroc SLS Lil' Hustler

My SLS Lil' Hustler is on the way along with three more of the small baffle kits for scratch builds.

My favorite email auto-response from Semroc:

Dear Steve Naquin,

Your order was updated to : Shipped

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Old 07-24-2006, 05:27 PM
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Me too....I would gladly pay up front for a S1B and LJII if I could get a confirmed release date.



well we voted and it's still #1 by almost double (followed by the v2)
nomatter how you slice or dice it.

excuse 1) the drawings are almost done
excuse 2) don't want to compete with other smalltime kit makers
excuse 3) there haven't been enough votes "lately"
excuse 4) had to make centuri clones for Naram 48 instead
excuse 5) (pending)

bash if you like, but these are the official excuses.
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Old 07-25-2006, 08:47 AM
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Well, apparently something happened at Semroc's website, or they got tired of the nagging. There's no information (that I could find) on any of the "coming soon" kits. I could only find info on what is currently available.
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Old 07-25-2006, 10:41 AM
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The votes are also missing from Semroc's "The Classics" page.
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Old 07-25-2006, 12:38 PM
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I've never been able to find the page where we can vote, other than by way of a link that someone else had posted, like Jay does in his signature.

Well, maybe not never, but I can't find it now.
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Old 07-25-2006, 12:55 PM
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If you go to the Classics page,
http://www.semroc.com/Store/scripts/ClassicKits.asp

There used to be a row for the number of votes each model has received. To vote you had to click on the icon in the first field for each model's row. That brings up a page for that model and there used to be a button to "vote for this model". The button is gone for each model's page and the row for number of votes each model has recieved is also missing from the Classics page.

They may have disabled all of this stuff while they're at NARAM. *shrugs*
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Old 07-25-2006, 01:26 PM
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If you use the following link it will show the kits with the most votes in order still, but with the "votes number" column missing.

http://www.semroc.com/Store/scripts....asp?sort=votes
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Old 07-25-2006, 02:19 PM
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Searching for Saturn, Saturn1B, Little and Little Joe II resulted in no records found.....searched on "soon" also and found nothing.
I hope this is JUST an attempt to stop us from bugging them, not an indication that development of these kits has been abandoned.
I'm startin' to get a funny feelin' about the future of these two kits....if it was anyone but Semroc/Carl I'd say we are about to be disappointed.
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Old 07-25-2006, 02:50 PM
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We have been getting far too many complaints lately about how we try to keep our customers informed about our future products. We have attempted to keep Semroc almost transparent so our customers had some influence on our future directions and knew what we were working on. The content of some recent emails have made it clear that, "We voted for it, now produce it!" Some have questioned our integrity; that we never intended to produce kits that we are working very hard on and have far too much capital tied up on.

It has not been our intention to "scheme" the public, if that is the way it came across. That is the reason our website has been trimmed of everything that is "planned", "coming soon", "in the works", or just a work in progress. After NARAM, we are going to try to find a way to provide the same service, but without the grief. Suggestions welcome!

None of this has impacted anything we are working on.
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Old 07-25-2006, 03:00 PM
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Half of the fun is seeing that stuff on the website and anticipating the release of them. In a way, it's like being a kid and waiting for the mailman to bring a new Estes/Centuri catalog or a box of rocket goodies. I obviously can't buy every product that will be released, but look foward to seeing what is being worked on and reading the posts of excited customers when something changes on the site.

I hope my comment in this thread wasn't taken as negative. I only said that I would trust you to take my $45 in advance for a Saturn 1B in order for you to have plenty of capital to complete the project as long as there was a reasonable project completion date. There are only a very small handful of companies of any type, much less hobby companies that I would trust like that.
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