HovisDirect.com - JP1 cables and accessories

johann83 · Post by **johann83** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:57 am

Richard,

I recently ordered a USB kit from you and received it in the mail yesterday. Thanks for the prompt shipping. However, I was a bit dismayed to find that there were no instructions with the kit, nor could I find any on your web site. Since you use your own PCB design, the basic instructions at the Yahoo group really don't help much.

Fortunately for me, I'm an EE by trade, and I could simply trace the connections and hook things up based on the schematic given in the Yahoo instructions. However, it would have taken much less time to assemble the kit if some instructions were included, or at least made avalable somewhere on your site. Just my thoughts....

Matt

HovisDirect · Post by **HovisDirect** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 8:22 am

When I made my first one I took a few pictures of it. I just haven't had time yet to get it up on the web. I hope to have it very soon.
Richard

tigi · Post by **tigi** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:43 am

hi
the package arrived today, late, but it arrived.
tigi

neogeosnk · Post by **neogeosnk** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:53 pm

I placed an order on April 22nd from Hovis Direct. No confirmation email or response from them at all. How long is the wait even for confirmaton??

neogeosnk · Post by **neogeosnk** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 6:46 pm

Guess nobody is really active on this site.. going back to yahoo groups.

Post by **The Robman** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:05 pm

Nobody's active? Are you blind? Good luck posting at Yahoo because I turned off the message function there last year.

neogeosnk · Post by **neogeosnk** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:46 pm

ok .. ok.. I should've just put "BUMP" on my post. That's all i wanted. Well, anyone heard from hovis lately?

neogeosnk · Post by **neogeosnk** » Mon May 03, 2004 9:20 pm

Ok.. im a chode. Got my order from Hovis today... Perfect cable!! Don't ever doubt hovis!! Neogeosnk-

Talus · Post by **Talus** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:53 pm

I ordered and paid for a JP1 cable on Jan 11th and have yet to hear from him. Anybody know how to get ahold of him? I have not heard a reply back from the e-mail have sent either

Any help would be greatly appreciated...if you know him, please tell him to check his e-mail or his PMs

Post by **The Robman** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:28 pm

... and his name is Richard, not Robert.

Talus · Post by **Talus** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:03 am

D'oh

rapple · Post by **rapple** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:59 pm

I ordered one last week and got a shipping confirmation late last night.

manxam · Post by **manxam** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:19 pm

It took me about 7 days to receive confirmation and another 7 days to receive my cable so I suggest you just wait it out if you can.

I would have liked a little better service but the price was right...

Post by **The Robman** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:00 pm

To shed a little more light on this, you need to keep in mind that there are just 2 people making JP1 cables for this group, those being Richard (Hovis Direct) and Tom (Filebug). Everybody else who sells JP1 cables (including myself) gets them from one of those 2 guys. So as you can hopefully imagine, that means they have to make an awful lot of cables, and seeing how Richard sells his cables for $6 less than Tom, he probably gets the larger share of those orders.

Remember also that both of these guys have regular full time jobs, they just do the cables in their spare time, so if it takes them a few days to ship your order, and if they don't answer every email personally, I think they deserve a little slack.

When I started the JP1 group, I used to supply the parts to make a cable in kit form but I quit doing that because it was too much work (and I didn't have to build the cables), so I take my hat off to both of these guys for making the cables and selling them as cheaply as they do. I could easily have had this gig for myself but I didn't want any part of it.

As for how long it takes for a cable to arrive once it's been mailed, you need to take that up with the Post Office. When you don't pay extra for shipping, you just get First Class mail.

Talus · Post by **Talus** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:40 pm

Richard has contacted me (and rather promptly I might add).

Things are well, he has been busy and unable to access his hotmail account as regularly as he would like.

Sorry for starting such a fuss...it's just unnerving clicking PayPal and seeing a payment made and then not hearing an e-mail reply for a week.

I'm just glad there are guys like Richard out there!

Thanks for helping cool down us hotheaded guys, Robman

I'll let everybody know when I get my cable so that everybody knows it takes about a few weeks but it all works out in the end

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HovisDirect.com - JP1 cables and accessories

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Anybody know where Hovis (Richard) is?