The fact that for you $155 is not a lot of money is immaterial, there are people here that might be suckered in for who $155 is a lot of dough.
Until the guy comes clean and shows that he's able to ship (which means he has at least the funds to buy a number of them, most companies in the far east have a minimum order volume, typical 100 or 200 pieces for devices like these, at some fixed discount, and has a written guarantee that they will be delivered at a certain date) he has no business taking any money at all. And even then, given the history of these threads (there was at least one other one) I'd like some more proof. If you start of by fibbing about your ability to deliver then you will need to overcome that later.
Selling fake watches on ebay is one thing, selling hardware like this is a completely different thing.
So far, I'm not aware that he did what he said he would do, which is to ship units to blogs for review. I think that would be a major first milestone on the way to large volume shipping.
Sending out a couple of review units is peanuts when you do something like this.
Until the guy comes clean and shows that he's able to ship (which means he has at least the funds to buy a number of them, most companies in the far east have a minimum order volume, typical 100 or 200 pieces for devices like these, at some fixed discount, and has a written guarantee that they will be delivered at a certain date) he has no business taking any money at all. And even then, given the history of these threads (there was at least one other one) I'd like some more proof. If you start of by fibbing about your ability to deliver then you will need to overcome that later.
Selling fake watches on ebay is one thing, selling hardware like this is a completely different thing.
So far, I'm not aware that he did what he said he would do, which is to ship units to blogs for review. I think that would be a major first milestone on the way to large volume shipping.
Sending out a couple of review units is peanuts when you do something like this.