Who is flexcabs

[thewoodcrafter]

Anyone know anything about the software? Who is behind it? Is it one of you ShopBotters?
http://www.flexcabs.com/purchase.html
It sounds too good to be true.

[dray]

Woooo...

Nice stuff. Roger if you try it out let me know how it runs, I'd hate to be the first to try it.

does look too good to be true

[thewoodcrafter]

Danny,
You buy it and let me know.

[bleeth]

It may be a great piece of work but, no address? no phone?, no name of person? I am automatically suspicious of offers that don't give you the option of calling someone and asking them about it directly.

[tommyr]

Roger,

Thanks for the link, interesting site.
Just sent them an email with some questions, will post their response when received.

Tom

[jhicks]

see post below on woodweb. Looks like an Australian company with some not so positive impressions so buyer beware.
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/forum...pl?read=473654

[thewoodcrafter]

Jerry,
Looks like Jacko is in on it. The e-mail that I got about it was a product anoncement. Because it is not out yet. BUY NOW FOR A LOWER PRICE thing.
Looks like it may be a scam.
Some things are too good to be true.

[patricktoomey]

Ok, so you guys beat me to it. I'm putting an announcement post together to post on here today. This is the software that I had mentioned about a month back. It's something that I wrote for myself and have been using for over a year now. I finally decided to commercialize it and add some more functionality.

I'm a regular on the forum so you know I exist, I just haven't made a general announcement yet anywhere so I don't have much contact info on the site. I'm trying to keep it relatively low-key until it's released. I'm giving ShopBotters the jump on this since it's the community I'm from and it's the machine I test everything on.

Not sure what that Australian thing on WoodWeb is about. I've only had the site up since Midnight last Friday so I can't have a bad reputation yet! :-)

I'll post in the product suppliers section later today.

On the topic of the "buy it cheaper now" issue, it's not a scam, just a way to try to let the initial people get in early. I'd like to form a core group of users who use it right away and can help get the product as full featured as possible. Since I am licensing some components in the software I can't give it away to the initial group (I'd like to if I could do it financially) but I figured the next best thing would be to give the upgraded Pro version as a free upgrade and then provide free upgrades for life for the initial users.

Please check back this afternoon for my post, and thanks for the ealy interest!

[thewoodcrafter]

I was hoping it was you Patrick, but it was very suspicious, you did not sign the e-mail.
Sign me up, I'll take a copy.

(sorry about the scam thing, didn't know who it was)

[patricktoomey]

No problem Roger, better safe than sorry. I made of the mistake of making the e-mail generic when I should have personalized everything to make sure people knew who I was. I also got caught a little off guard because I thought it would just slowly build up and I could do a sort of "soft start" but instead I've been hammered. It's a good problem to have though so I won't complain!

I'll close out this thread by saying that the "official" announcement will be posted over on the Products/Suppliers List topic around 4pm today.