[CLOSED] DAVEga first batch (beta testing)

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@Mich21050 You messaged me that you would prefer to do a bank transfer. We can do it if necessary, but I would prefer PayPal to make things easier. I’m trying to understand the reasons why PayPal doesn’t work for some and if there’s something I could do about it. Could you please explain what the trouble is? Thanks.

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Yeah no problem. My paypal Account has been hacked and someone bought something for 600€ :frowning:

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Ugh, that sucks. I’m sorry. I will PM you and we’ll figure something out.

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I keep receiving some payments in CZK and it turns out that costs some 20% on fees (most of that on the sender side). I’ll tweak my PayPal account settings later on today. Please don’t send me any money until then.

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  • no arduino background
  • got issues enough on my own
  • no 3d printer
  • i suck i guess i will have to wait for another batch
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I may need some crowd wisdom here to correct me, but from what I understand so far, to avoid PayPal fees (which are pretty ridiculous), the following is necessary:

  • do not convert the currency
  • do the transaction as “friends & family”

Here’s how I believe it should be done:

  • select “Send & Request”
  • send payment to: [email protected]
  • you send: 9 USD
  • recipient gets: 9 USD
  • set “Sending to a friend”

… or if you’re doing EUR then

  • you send: 8 EUR
  • recipient gets: 8 EUR

I hope that EUR and USD covers 90% of people. If you have neither EUR, nor USD, you can either do the currency conversion and pay the fees or we can do Transferwise.

Note: Given the amounts to be paid, I find it completely unnecessary to use the buyer protection and pay extra. If anyone is uncomfortable doing “friends & family” as an advance payment, feel free to send the payment only after you have received your package.

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Sigh I’m getting itchy. Any more spots left?

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@deucesdown Yes, there are. I should be able to ship 11 kits tomorrow. Then I’m out of buttons though and they don’t have them here so I’ll need to wait for the package from China, which I expect any day now. More kits to hopefully go out next week.

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I have no arduino experience so I’ll wait for batch 2

Can’t wait for a more polished gadget!

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Interesting, there’s a new fee on the sender side.

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Thanks for the info. That’s probably only if you pay with a credit card, which makes sense since PayPal gets charged for accepting a credit card payment. 11% fee is still pretty steep. That’s definitely not what they get charged.

I’m getting pretty annoyed with PayPal. I think the batch 2 will be dogecoin payments only. :smile:

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Guys, I’m going to collect a few missing bits tomorrow, complete you packages in the evening and ship them to you on Thursday morning. I’ll be shipping to the following people:

(:white_check_mark: = ready to do some SMD soldering :wink:)

I also have an order from @SourPlumGoose. I’m sorry but I have to put you (and any other orders received henceforth) on hold until more buttons arrive, which is hopefully in a few days.

There’s a small problem about capacitors. I wasn’t able to get the right size THT locally. I’m expecting a big caps package, which will hopefully have the right (small enough) size. I can provide SMD capacitors though. Is everyone comfortable soldering them? It’s not that hard. I managed to do it and I’m not particularly good at soldering. If you think it would be a problem for you please PM me and we’ll figure it out.

To keep this thread uncluttered, I’ll consider a like to this post as “I’m good with SMD”.

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I know you don’t want clutter but I just want to say that I’ll have a shipment soon of a bunch of capacitors. Both normal and ceramic, on top of the small assortment I already own. So feel free to ship without the problem part and just inform me. Though I imagine it’ll be easier to ship everything at once anyway.

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Looks like there’s a misunderstanding. It’s actually my plan to ship without the THT capacitors and give you SMD capacitors instead. This is to speed things up. Another option is to wait for the THT capacitors to arrive and I don’t know when that will be.

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Yea, that’s fine. Sorry about that, makes sense now.

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Hey sorry I payed but PayPal didn’t let me pay in any other.currency except for yours I don’t mind sending a bit extra to cover the conversion rate.

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You mean SMD capacitors?

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Of course, sorry.

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@Kug3lis would be a great tester. @Kug3lis do u agree?

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I had run the firmware with simple arduino and it works, but to do more in deep test don’t have literally time :smiley:

Too many things on the hands right now to even pick something more :slight_smile: Plus I have to finish shit loads of stuff before holidays :slight_smile:

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