{"id":3203,"date":"2011-12-27T17:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serony.com\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2011-12-27T17:44:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:44:22","slug":"yourduino-becomes-notmyduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serony.com\/ken\/2011\/12\/27\/yourduino-becomes-notmyduino\/","title":{"rendered":"Yourduino becomes Notmyduino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one good example of how a nice-sounding family-friend run small business on <em>Internet<\/em>. The business is has no physical store as I know, but very good web-based store along with sweet-looking background friend-family story. They apparently are electronic enthusiasts at least if not full engineers selling mostly <em>Arduino<\/em> related small electronics parts to <em>Arduino<\/em> community. So far so good.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0After long hiatus from exciting electronics building days, I decided to start with this wonderful, inexpensive <em>Arduino<\/em> open-source micro-controller boards. First, I got introduced to <em>MakerShed<\/em> and <em>SparkFun<\/em> which sells good-quality <em>Arduino<\/em> parts, and bought some basic components like <em>Arduino<\/em> board, <em>ZigBee<\/em> radios from them. Their prices were very reasonable if not expensive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Then comes <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourduino.com\">yourduino.com<\/a><\/em>.. My impression was like: good international friends turn their passion of <em>Arduino<\/em> into good global-reaching business taking advantages of &#8216;dirt-cheap <em>Chinese<\/em> labor&#8217;. Well, looks good and sounds good until I found out otherwise. What I have not realized that the proprietors have <em>near-zero control<\/em> over their own stock, fulfillment process, record-keeping etc.. In short, they have no idea what they have shipped for my order! This is exactly &#8220;<em>you get what you have paid for<\/em>&#8221; situation. In conclusion, I have no intention to have another business with this virtual shop in future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one good example of how a nice-sounding family-friend run small business on Internet. The business is has no physical store as I know, but very good web-based store along with sweet-looking background friend-family story. 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