I must admit that I had to read DJs text a couple of times to be sure, that it isnt meant in an ironic/sarcastic way. Shutting down a well working shop is a waste in my eyes. I suggest to kickstart another ez-robot, so more people learn to know about the existing and working website.

Until which date will the shop stay open and the preorder be available at least? I need some time to finish my planning for some new robot(s). Unsure yet, which parts I need in total. I would like to avoid the neeed of a 2nd delivery because of 1-2 servos or other small stuff. The shipping fees to Germany are just too damn high ^^ I wonder if the customs office will charge additional tariffs and how high they will be.

I need the parts for the education of my pupils. Does someone know a good way around customs duties and taxes? For ecample a declaration on the outside, so the the customs office employees know, that the stuff inside is for educational purposes?

!Agree. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

can you do bolt store and kickstarter.twice more luck

What Aameralis is saying , just keep selling ezb v3 and XX price and the ezb V4 at a higher price which makes sense. Maybe they might do something like that in the future.

In my humble opinion the only thing the V3 has to offer over V4 is the on board regulators. Other then that it's old world. Too bad EZ Robots couldn't design a regulator into V4.

Hi

I have been building with Arduino for a while now and was about to make a journey into the EZB world, thought I might drive down later this week. I wanted to pick up a bunch of stuff so I could really get going in a big way. BUT after reading DJ's statement that they will be shutting down to do a kickstarter, I don't think there is much value in it.

While I can understand that they want to grow bigger, have they forgot those that made them what/where they are now? I get the feeling that with the closure of the online store they do themselves a disservice in a big way. I ask myself should I start into this when they are going to close and leave me hanging? What assurances will There be that they will continue to support thier current customers? This happens so often these days, a group starts a great business idea then gets too big for those that supported them before they were anywhere. Just saying...

Well at least the beggining of my day was blessed with dreams.

Happy New Year all.

Mike

I don't understand. What will be kickstarted? A physical store, online store, the EZ-b v4 board, software development? Are they looking for investors? I thought Kickstarter is used to fund development of a project. I thought the product was already developed but being enhanced. If they are looking for user exposure to their product, the move vendor stores/websites they get to sell their product the better. Certainly, there is lots of positive articles in large magazines lately which helps get the word out. None of my business but things can get financially challenging with no sales for several months. I believe in their product and just ordered a ez-b v4 board.

Kickstarter.com is a place to pitch products but often people use it to pitch a lonely idea. If you notice the ideas alone do not do well on kickstarter. There needs to be real tangible product you can see working well before people will invest money to buy one. Ez robot is still a start up in many ways and was much more successful in the sales than expected. The members who support ez robot have been screaming for a kickstarter for over a year. I was one of these original members suggesting it. I can understand the arguments on both sides of the fence. Now that there are tangible products and videos to watch ez robot revolution stands a great chance of doing phenomenal in the kickstarter sales pitch. At the very least it is a great area of advertisement to get the ez robot moved from a new name to a known name in consumer electronics industry.