Where do we order from? How do we know when it goes live!?
Still working that out. Either my own storefront or dachman. Josh and are still deciding who should handle retail capsule sales. I'll be handling OEM customers, but Josh has an existing capsule storefront. But then again, he's also kind of moving away from capsule sales because people are more interested in kits so I may just take over entirely.
I plan to offer OEM manufacturing of capsules too, so not only will you be able to order my capsules in bulk serialized etc, but I will also design and manufacture capsules for you at volume, as well as manufacture your design or other existing designs. If you wanted a thousand debenham capsules for instance, or a thousand of a capsule that you invented, that's something that I could do. There's no one that can currently compete in 3U's market space and that's what I'm ultimately shooting to change.
Of course, if you wanted to do OEM, you could also directly contact a factory and work with them with no middleman. You could certainly save some money that way, but with me you have a niche-knowledgeable engineer with solid design chops that can easily answer complicated questions in your language and offer quick pre and post-sales support. Since I am a separate entity and do all the R&D, make all the drawings, and only outsource the manufacturing itself, that means that my capsules are
manufacturer-independent. I could, for instance, have multiple unaffiliated factories working on one project to save time or cost. I could switch production pipelines if one factory is too busy and have the backplates, hardware, etc come from an entirely different set of metal factories or even have the skinning done by an entirely different factory with no real change in the final product. Considering that my OEM products are going to be cost-plus anyway, I hope I can offer a decent value to Western customers.
