Sure,
The order was very simple:
- 2 layers ~60mm x 100mm boards
- roughly 20 components, nothing tiny no BGA or anything fancy and components on one side only
- only 4 units!
I originally added the board to my cart before Chinese new year (this is what you do so that they can price the components that they don’t have info for)
I waited over the CNY only to have it removed from my cart (it might have timed out or something) a day or two after the CNY holidays in China. I put the board up again and managed to complete the order on 26/02/18.
I waited for about 1 week about 1 week after the quoted 25 days and tried multiple times to contact SEEED. eventually, I got an email to say that they were ready for shipping except for one issue and that they would email me soon about that issue.
I then didn’t hear from them and they completely stonewalled me for about a month, finally, they got in contact with me and it turned out that they hadn’t event started making the boards (So that is one of several blatant lies that I have been fed). a couple of days later Carmen told me that they were due to be complete Wednesday but from what I can see they are still in production, Carmen hasn’t gotten back to me either.
If they told me after 25 days that it would still be a few weeks then I would have happily placed the order with someone else and it would have arrived 2 weeks ago. instead, they still have me hanging on with a series of false promises.
Unfortunately, this order was for a pilot for my main target customer. I told them that they would have the product over a month ago, I expect that they will tire of waiting very soon which will likely mean that this startup will be over before it began. (along with all of my families savings and a few thousand hour of work)
I think it has now been 63 days and still no sign of completion let alone delivery.
I must say that I have placed a couple of small PCBA orders with SEEED in the past and they have come in an appropriate time and been of sufficient quality.