ARC 2020.11.02.00

robo rad  if you have to choose between eating or freezing or robots I think you would choose eating and freezing before robotics.  Synthiam should take Canadian funds at par.  or wait until the pandemic is over before implementing all this.  I now have to go onto the english inmoov site and tell them not to use ARC and stay with their arduino and "my robotlabs software", and tell them I  am sorry for having suggested synthiam.

@Nallycat The pandemic is affecting us all, not just as individuals but businesses as well. The ARC software is still perfect for inMoovs, that doesn’t change, but everyone’s individual situation may be different at this moment in time when it comes to what they can/can’t financially support.

Jeremie  I don't think Synthiam is not being affected by the pandemic and I believe they deserve all the rewards for all their hard work has to offer.  what I said I got very annoyed when a Canadian company treats Canadians like americans, a dollar is the same to americans as it is for canadians, Synthiam has to  burden the costs the same as other canadians.  but they can say ha ha we have away around this by charging U.S. money, Canadians are to small a group to bother with.  and because synthiam will only take a small loss and they should take Canadian money at par.

@nallycat, I feel your pain brother. I'm sorry you are so close to financial collapse. It's sad that you have had to stop doing much of what you have loved in the past. I understand what you're saying but the issue is bigger then you in Canada or me in the US. Your suggested cure would do little to help your plight and only spread discontent among Synthiam's customer base and add to the financial problems of this company.

I really don't want to give an economics lesson or to preach to you but..... Synthaim is part of a global economy and sells their product all over the world. Every country they sell to has a different exchange rate. Some more then Canada, some less. Added to that that Synthaim is not a charity organization. They need to obey the laws, pay taxes, pay operating costs and meet payroll. They need to operate and try to make a profit so they can invest that profit back into the company and it's employees. It's not corporate greed or a personal thing towards Canadians.

So I ask; You want canadian pricing to be at Par. At Par to what? Do you want to keep the prices set by Synthiam at the US pricing and make that the Par at the Canadian dollar level? From what you are saying, it sounds like you want to keep pricing at the US dollar rate and give Canadians this price flat across and ignore the exchange % rate (whatever it should be at any given time) . Great for you but this would force Synthiam to subsidize your robot fun out of their pocket. Being a business trying to survive (like the rest of us) why would they do that even if they could? Your only real choice is to vote with your wallet and either buy their product or not spend money with them. Synthiam could base all their prices on the Canadian dollar and that would take away the base of your augment completely. Then the only decision you would have is if you could afford the cost or not. Sounds like in the end that is you only real option anyway.

That's the cold business end of it.

On the moral and emotional side;

Why should Synthiam give Canadians a break and say screw the rest of the world. I'm sorry that your government is incapable of  bringing the Canadian dollar more in line with the global exchange rate. However, because you guys elect inept government officials that have policies that damage the currency, why should you get a price cut and not the rest of us? Many people all over the world have invested and bought EZ Rob*t products for years and helped get them to where they are today. If you guys in Canada think you deserve a price cut than all of us should also get a break based on the current exchange rate. So, form my point of view, based on your way of thinking, take this example; People over in Europe pay .18% less than the USA based on the Euro/US exchange rate. The buyers in the USA should get a .18% price discount because many more people in the USA have bought and supported EZ Rob#t over the years. People in the US are getting screwed by Synthiam because the exchange rate favors them. Synthiam should level the pricing playfield for everyone because the whole world is getting screwed.

As far as this little temper tantrum of yours: 

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I now have to go onto the english inmoov site and tell them not to use ARC and stay with their arduino and "my robotlabs software", and tell them I am sorry for having suggested synthiam.

I truly hope you find better times old friend. I'm going to miss seeing your posts here. Good luck in following your dreams. Try not to freeze to death this winter. It would be horrible to find you frozen and stuck to a tree out in the woods at the end of winter.

Dave I thought more highly of you.  but your response was not funny.   I am not giving up robotics, but what I am pissed off at is a Canadian company, rips off Canadian members.  do you think every time we go to the store, we say how much will that be in american dollars.  of course not.  but it might as well be. everything here is based on the G dam american dollar.  funny though american PBS membership is at par with Canadian dollars. american online auctions take Canadian dollars at par.  and when I could shop across the border quite a few stores took Canadian dollars at par.  We get ripped off  by a Canadian Company go fig  and Dave if you pay $8.99 I want to pay $8.99  I don't want to see U.S funds at the end of their Canadian G Dam adds.   and Dave you prob will be wearing shorts on your high horse in Florida in December.  eating cheap foods, the only expense you have will be going golfing. rough life. no heating bills I bet.  cheap gas and electrical.    and Dave don't make jokes about freezing to death, I almost died in 1984 slid off the Highway in a snow storm spent 8 hours and the engine block froze and cracked -24 deg cell.  I was found barely breathing with hyperthermia and and spent 5 weeks in the hospital.  so that was not funny,

@nallycat, I wasn't trying to be funny. Sorry I busted your bubble about your view of me. I think I simply stated the facts as they are and not as we want to see them.

As far as freezing to death I spent 38 years working out in the Wisconsin winters as a lineman keeping the power flowing so people wouldn't freeze to death. I'd get called out to work in below zero weather and snow storms at all hours of the night and holidays to restring power wires and replace poles. I'm intimately familiar with the concept of freezing and frostbite. I've come very close to losing fingers and toes several times. Also like you I've been stuck in a cold situation that I came close to death. I don't let it cloud my outlook in reality. Sometimes we need to laugh at the things that tried to kill us and learn not to do it again.

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You prob will be wearing shorts on your high horse in Florida in December. eating cheap foods, the only expense you have will be going golfing. rough life. no heating bills I bet. cheap gas and electrical.

So you see old friend, you're trying to put down the wrong guy. Only difference between you and I is that I see the reality and who is to blame. I'd suggest you start by electing gov officials that would cut canadian regulations and make it easier for your companies to compete, do business and make money and employ people with a livable wage. If you want to pay US dollars, have no heating bills, cheap gas and electrical then move to the US and to deep southern Florida. BTW, my electric bill here was $350 USD last month for a 2000 sf home.

It is 20 degrees Celsius in Toronto Canada today (68 Fahrenheit).  I am wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

hi dave

seeing you vids from B9 , i would never gess it that your really strong man .

hey nallycat

is it possible you had a bad week? and this was the last straw? there is stil a free version off ARC .and you never know what the future brings for you.