They must really have their hands full. My machine was on stands and I ordered a kit from them last week. I spent a week trying to get a response from voice messages left and email with no luck.
I only needed an estimated ship date so I knew if I needed to cancel a future trip or not. I hear they have an awesome product and really wanted one of their kits but I started to feel scammed and cancelled my order. It wouldn't be my first time to order something and never receive it then being out hard earned cash, so I'm leery of situations like this.
Had I known in advance, that he was basically a one man shop doing custom work and his lead times were 4-6 weeks then that would have been different. Maybe he ought to put that on his site.
I ran a one man shop for many years, and I made it a point to set aside some time each day in the evening to return calls, my answering machine even explained that and most people were understanding, when they knew what to expect in advance.
I ended up replacing a factory arm for now and getting the machine up and going to buy some more time. I may try John again one day, especially since CommanderJones vouches for him allot.