I'll buy a display if you get more

(I live in Denmark)
Marius (Escort Cab + 2CV)

Greetings!

Please send me an email. I ordered / am expecting a batch in from Noritake, and I have been taking requests. I might still have one or two unaccounted for yet, so I will add you to the list.

do you still have any displays left?

Greetings!

Actually, Noritake messed up the shipment of the last batch, sent to a non-existant mail address (so much for spelling it out to them three times...) and it got returned by UPS to their Chicago office. I have a promise from two different reps that it will be reshipped today to the right address.

As to having spares available, I still have a few reservations that I need to fill, including mine. I have ONE spare left. Send me an email with your address as soon as possible, and I will hold it for you.

No other orders will be accepted until this batch is completed - I think we have reached a point where there is no longer a significant demand, I have accounted for all of those that I have had ordered / shipped from Japan, and I do not know if Noritake has any left for me to buy... After the last batch arrives, I will post the contact information for the team I have been dealing with for the east coast (US) region. They are very helpful, interested, and did not charge me for the shipment from Japan!

One interesting side note: the guy at Noritake was extremely interested in the player. He is a music buff and was curious to know what I was using them for. I described the player to him, and he wanted more information. I sent him links to all of the common sites (this board, empeg.com, riocar.org, my install, etc.). While I don't think he is "hooked" enough to buy one, he did raise an interesting topic...

It seems that Noritake gets lots of requests for consultative help from small startups (perhaps as empeg was in the very early days), where groups may be interested in small runs of 100 units and need help getting the displays working / programmed. Noritake, of course, cannot help them. He was wondering if I had a contact that would be interested in consulting for using the displays in real-world applications. I did not give any direct contact information (I know that the folks @ empeg have real jobs), but I told him to send them to this board. So, you might someday see requests for consulting on the displays - I don't know if this is something anyone here would want to deal with (David?, Mark?, Stu?), but I will leave it to you to decide.