I just made a quick calculation: say that I will go ahead and order 230 boards for $500. And say that 30 are sold in the EU by me (for $5 per board plus $3.5 up to 2 boards shipping) and 110 in the rest of the world (I will ask $3.5 per board plus shipping to a limited number of intermediate persons who will resell them to individuals for 5/6 dollar plus ‘local’ shipping), I will about break even.
So with 140 boards sold I’m good. When this lists hits 100 I’m confident to go ahead with the order. I promised Sundy that in a week from now I will take a decision on the order.
Unless Neal in the meantime (who of course has no time for this atm) answers his PM and offers to do the distribution, then the calculation will be his and not mine.
So, it was mentioned in the other thread that some people would be interested in a complete board (with 4x LEDs already soldered on). If a complete board is ever offered, I’d be interested in one, depending on final price. Otherwise, I think I won’t. I’m concerned that my skill isn’t enough for the reflow.
I will not do the distribution for the US so I can not do it anyway, but I offered MikeC once to reflow leds on three triple boards and 6 (or so) single boards, I did it with lots of love for the hobby but it took way more time than I had anticipated. So yeah, I could offer one or two Q8 boards with leds reflowed (would have to order leds for them), but that does not help because I’m sure that the demand will be way higher than that.
