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Lol , jinx!

so wait and get a 4v via kickstarter?

I think I'd have to agree with Anthony on this one. Kick starter is... well... for kick starting a company or idea. The thought of having an already successful company doing a kick starter might not go over so good. You might almost want to keep the store open.

While I agree with you guys, I too thought Why Kickstarter and I've been pondering it for days. I think it may be due to overwhelming response. With a kickstarter it may be easier for them collect orders over a period of time and I'm sure the more they have made at once makes it a little cheaper. It will help keep the next batch of all of the orders in a more orderly and scheduled fashion. I think that right now they are scrambling. They blew up and are struggling to meet the demand so in the long term it's a 1 step back for 5 steps forward for them. That's just my theory.

OK DJ. You hooked me. I used my $50 USD credit towards another EZB board in fear that the store is going to be shut down and prices are going up.

As DJ said, it will reach a new demographic. While typically kickstarter may be to give new projects and ideas a kick start why not use it to "kick start" or boost the V4 and/or the Revolution robots and EZ-Bits?

I can't see why this would create any concern to new and existing customers, what are you concerned about?

Are you honestly concerned over the companies stature?

I disagree with pretty much all of that. Arduino has the majority of people following and using them. And while EZ-Robot is now well established and has progressed from a basement to an office space there are still a lot of people they haven't yet reached. There are a lot of people who, as you have said, dismiss the EZ-B.

The recent, current and future magazine exposure will take care of some of that as will Kick Starter. It's an additional outlet at the end of the day and surely that can only be a good thing?

The V3/V4 part, why would you class the V3 as entry level and the V4 as advanced? The V4 is more advanced but it isn't only for advanced users. It works very much in the same way as the V3 works. It's point, click, drag and you're done, the V4 is just more feature rich, provides a much more stable communication method and has extras built in, in a smaller footprint. I guarantee the V4 will be as easy, if not easier to use than the V3.

How will Kick Starter take it all away? I cannot see that whatsoever.