Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Posts: 34

Does anyone have any idea of Visor sales to date? I'm interested to know how they're selling considering the shipping delays, the proliferation of Visor discussion sites, etc.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Columbia, MO, USA
Posts: 68

Logic says that they must be selling or there wouldn't be shipping delays or discussion groups...

LarryD

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Posts: 34

Very true, thats why I'm interested in what the numbers might be. Kind of to cheer them on.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: College Station, TX
Posts: 143

Reminds me of one of my favorite Yogi Berraisms:

"Nobody goes there anymore...it's too crowded"

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: South Riding, VA
Posts: 33

I tried to get shipping and production numbers from Donna Dubinsky directly and she let me know that they do not release numbers like this, which is apparently a common practice. You can search on my posts to find my report on an email I sent I think in November asking this and other questions, to which her answers/no comments were both kind and interesting.
Point is, though, I don't think anyone outside Handspring knows how many have been ordered/shipped.
In september I read that they got something like 40,000 orders in september, or the first week or something, which was more than double what they had expected. Of course I can't remember where I heard that.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location:
Posts: 95

In another thread a while back I did a best-estimate on their order volume based upon my order date and my order number and came up with somewhere between 30,000 and 45,000 Visors ordered in September.

I can't guarantee the accuracy of my estimates, but I did round everything down to one significant digit before I did the math, and use the 'low-ball' of another poster for the web orders/phone orders ratio. So I'd say that 40,000 wouldn't be too far out of the ball park.

Of course, I'd love to see some actual figures, but who wouldn't.

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: "Children are a gift from God, they are a reward"
Posts: 1049

Semi-related
Was on the phone tonight with HS (possible double order coming my way) and operator said that they were expecting 1,000 orders a week before they started and that we swamped them, with more than that on first day. Is anecdotal, but might give another factor to estimate in as they haven't seen a slowdown in ordering yet.