Back in the office again! Pre-Order Reward!
Today was our first day back in the office after the Chinese New Year break!
There is a big backlog of work which we will have to manage.
The impact on our operation because of the outbreak of the Corona virus is substantial, both personal and over all.
Nevertheless, we work hard to get your overdue shipments out asap. DHL services have today unfortunately been delayed to next week, which came as a big surprise to us. Also some "special lines" e.g. economy express remain not available for the time being. This is caused by the fact that many airlines stopped their flights into China which seriously reduces also the capacities for air cargo.
We hope for your understanding that shipments at the moment might not arrive according to the usual time schedules.
New Shop design
You probably recognized, that we did not slow down during the holidays. We did release our new shop to you and hope you like it. There is still some more work to be done before we can reach real customer convenience, but it is a big improvement to before.
To all our customers who placed pre-orders for QUAD SATA KIT in our store.
The situation compared to the end of January has substantially changed. All manufacturing plans have been postponed. Many of the suppliers could not resume work or really lack of personnel.
Many people could not return to Shenzhen yet for various reasons. Travelling is not very convenient now, because of the precautions against the spread of the virus taken. Please understand that we do our utmost to ship asap, but our supply chain is deeply affected.
We did get some updates concerning the delivery dates today. Since most factories will not start before the 20th of February it will take probably up to the end of March to be able to fully deliver the pre-ordered products.
This is of course the worse case but we don´t want to create false expectations.
To reward you for your patience and trust we will add a special pre-order bonus.
This offer includes a 45W PD power supply and a 1m USB-C cable to power your Quad SATA KIT. This offer will end on the 29th of February. (EXTENDED!!)
The shipments will be released based on the order intake
PS: For product updates please use the mail registration on the right bottom corner. We will keep you posted via this mail channel and our blog of course.
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36 comments
Dragos
it will be nicer if the 5v input of the hat will be on the back and the power button in the front. Most of use use the kit headless and without the power cord on the right side, it will look and feet better. Regards, I’m waiting form my kit.. hopes it will arrive soon.
Norbert
@PATRICK
Hello Patrick,
thanks for your input! We can not change this at the moment, but it is a very good idea for future releases. The space should be enough for thicker drives, it is a bit challenging though.
Concerning the re-taping of the standoff holes. We already changed our packaging and in the future shipments the standoff bolts will already be mounted on the base plate. We will as well adopt the production processes to keep the holes free of coating.
Norbert
@ROBIN
Hello Robin,
the remark for DHL is necessary, because for some remote locations DHL does charge us additional fee. We can only calculate and verify if we have the destination address.
Please send us the intended shipment address to shop_cn@allnetchina.cn – we will then verify for you if there are additional costs.
Robin
What additional fees i have to pay when i select DHL express delivery for the Quad SATA kit to Germany? It scares a bit when i read this but don’t get any information how much ist is. This actually stops me from odering. Please help.
patrick Bentley
i received my nas kit and was wondering if enough of us wanted it you could remake the case -hat to accommodate the larger 2.5 in drives? i can only fit one 5 tb seagate inside of the nas and think it would be more valuable using larger storage media then ssd’s since it only has a single gigabit port i know it would make the hat slightly larger then then raspberry pi. but the increased storage available for the size would be amazing. anyways i loved my kit and only thing i wish you would do is re-tap the standoff holes after powder coating since i broke one of mine trying to break through the paint