Hey Waytools, you should not be taking new orders.

Despite the assertion that you have deep pockets, it should be clear by now that you may not ever be able to bring this product to market. Even if your money is infinite, your expertise may not be up to the task. At this point, after all of these problems, shortcomings, and shortsightedness, you have to see that it’s a real possibility that you can’t pull this off. Once you go to final production and shipping, that’s when you should be taking new orders. Your performance up to this point makes this clear.

Another possible scenario that can’t be discounted, is that you’re having money problems that are causing all of these delays. In the real world where money isn’t infinite, at some point you’re just conning people to spend good money into bad IF the real problem is that you’re money has run out. If you’ve been buying time all these years waiting for some loan or investor or backer to show up, it’s time by now to realize it probably wont happen. IF the TREGers is just some elaborate Ponzi scheme with prototypes to keep up appearances while just treading water, then you have gone far enough down that road and should stop now. Further orders will just dig you in deeper.

In either scenario, one clear, easy, moral thing to do is stop taking in new money. The fact that you haven’t stopped taking orders is the thing that finally convinced me to get my money back and get out.

At this point, you have bungled this badly enough that anyone new buying a text blade is being fooled into investing in a startup without knowing it. New customers think they’re buying a product, but it’s very safe to say by now that they’re really just investing in the probability of a product. I didn’t want to be a part of that, and that’s why I got out.

If you want to be seen as a good-faith actor, one obvious step is to stop taking new orders.