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John, if you abandon people on this site who have invested good money in a project you have entirely failed to deliver I guarantee you this thread will follow you around for life. You retract the above now or this thread gets renamed to ‘John Westlake DAC designer legal action’ and I start encouraging my members to organise a class action suit against you. I promise this will be your top google hit until you satisfy those who have paid you. Deliver what you owe, either in product or as refund, and then you get a choice in things. That is the order of business here.
I am absolutely sick to bloody death of hosting this thread and of your attitude to my site’s members who’s only mistake was to trust and invest in you. If you take people’s money, and to my understanding you have taken £thousands from people here, you do not get to walk away on your terms. That will not happen. You will find I have a say in this too!
PS For clarity: John Westlake does not hold a current pfm Trade Account and has not done so for three or four years now. He does not in any way represent the good name of pink fish media in any context and never has done. I will do everything necessary to distance my business and site from this man’s behaviour and to support those who have invested good money in him.
I'm sorry for the understandable and fractures post on your forum. I would very much like to keep everyone informed of the project progress, and that the development is continuing (and indeed WRT MDAC 1.5 nearing the production stage). I do feel obliged to keep everyone informed, however its has sadly become counter productive to post updates here on PFM, as anything I post is sadly instantly turned into a negative. I have many followers who have turned to the FB group as they cannot stand the constant negative postings here on PFM.
Obviously since the initial development sponsorship I have taken burden of the development cost upon myself pumping virtually all the funds I have into this project and keen to see the end of it more then anyone – I have not turned by back away from it.
I’ve just returned from a trip to Asia to meet with vendors for pending production of MDAC1.5 and Detox - again financed by myself so I’m doing everything humanely possible to make it happen – but it makes its hard to keep a positive outlook when I’m being constantly knocked down by the posts here, I will not give up, but it does make it hard sometimes…
I do wish to keep everyone who sponsored the development of these designed informed, and would rather via PFM… but how much abuse can one take and still have the mental way with all to keep pushing forward with such a complex designs?
I started the FB group to keep the “signal to noise” at a reasonable level – and do hope that once the MDAC1.5 and Detox unit’s ship I can return here with support related questions etc. If some method could be found to reduce the negativity until I manufacture first boards then I’d be more then happy to be fully active here once again.
I’ve returned from Asia on Friday and have a stinking Flu / Cold, once I have a clear head again I have the PCB waiting to be built that will morph into MDAC1.5 – so first MDAC1.5’s could be seen around the New Year… in fact within a couple of weeks we will have first test results of the MDAC1.5…
As mentioned in an earlier post, during the trip I was able to secure a vendor who would produce the small number of Detox units – I’ll be collecting these before Christmas…
Not sure what more I can add apart from the fact that I’ve 100% invested in completing these projects ASAP – a fact born out that I’ve just returned from a trip to Asia to met with component vendors etc. I would not be making such an effort if I had no plans to see production in the near term.