WOO HOO!! I knew we could count on the forum members to push us over 250!! This is great news Peter, we can all be proud that where part of such a awesome experience.

Kevin,

I couldn't agree more.  It was and is the little things - like you worrying that another member would be out of town and would miss the opportunity to participate.

I feel like a spent salmon. 

Peter

I have ordered some of the FOG systainers and if anyone wants to piggyback their order with mine they are more then welcome too. It may save on some of the shipping and brokerage charges.

Just let me know. i get good shipping rates across Canada and have no problem with storing the systainers till people are ready.

Just trying to help,
Dan Clermont

As the smoke clears - in after hour purchasing - the total now stands at 268! 

If anyone else still wants to be part of this, please PM me.

Peter

Wowowow!!

Just 'cuz I'm a goofball analyst.. 

That's 12 Fogtainers per day, on average in the sales window (23 days).
That's 1 Fogtainer every two hours for 23 days.
That's $837 per day  (Using an average price of $70 each Fogtainer)
A total of over $19,000 sold.    (I can see why PayPal alarms started going off!)
Using the average height of the Systainers (assuming equal sales), that stack is over 2100 ft tall; or 0.4 miles.  Or 680 meters.
Averaging weight, that's 1106 lbs or 502 kg.  (over half a ton!)   Peter, your living room is going to sink into the sand!

That is truly outstanding and amazing to have seen this whole project conceive, grow, work through the paces, and now this.  Wowow!   

To add to your wonderfull stats:

The original anonymous poll showed an interest in 256 fogtainers.  That is why ending the official ordering period at 257 was so cool to me.

The next poll that put names with sizes showed an interest in 146.

Logic would have it that when have to associate spending money that number would have decreased.  But looked what happened.  The total purchase amount exceeded the original interest poll.

If you were to take this to a statistician, they would tell you that this is unheard of.

We were both correct.  At midnight the total was 257.  Additional orders came in after midnight mainly from the the western states, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest.  The ending total was 275.

Wood junkie great stats.....  how about the volume?

I'm rather amazed that so many Sys1 were ordered. I find the Sys1 fairly useless. Of course we all have are different uses and work styles. The other order numbers are what I thought they would be. Sys2 the most popular then down the line.
Peter I think in years to come you will probably come to realize many times over the experiences and value this effort has taught you. You will probably be reaping the business benefits for many years. It's these kind of out of the box activities that can teach us valuable lessons that we normally wouldn't get.
A number of years ago, a buddy was on the board of a non-profit. He wanted their national convention to come to Chicago. Since he was on the board he couldn't do any work to make it happen. He decided to talk me into putting together a bid package to bring their convention to here. Outside of staying in hotels I knew nothing about the hotel or convention industry. Long story much shorter, I spent the next 2 1/2 years putting together a bid package, having big shot meetings and beating out 7 other cities who were competing for the convention. I always kept a suit in the back of my truck so I could go downtown to a meeting on a moments notice. Really screwed up getting construction jobs done. My package won the bid to bring a 15,000 people convention to the City and provide a lot of jobs for a week. At the time, I was just thrilled to be getting all the Comps from properties. Today I'm still reaping the benefits of the lessons I learned on the adventure. He later told me he asked me because he knew I had the tenacity to pull it off. I'm glad he knew it because I sure didn't. 

Good call!

Well, I am one who finds lots of uses for systainer 1s.  For example:

Just a note...

For those who got the SYS 1, you can buy the compartments, like the ones shown in Frank's post, that come in the SYS 1 Box.  I know the photos aren't accurate for the red and green boxes on our website, but here's a link to all of them.

Note that they come in the following quantities:

Green - 2 pieces
Blue - 3 pieces
Yellow - 6 pieces
Red - 12 pieces

http://www.festoolusa.com/search.html?q=compartment

While I am waiting for payments to come in, if you want to order send me a PM.  This could end at any time - so don't hesitate. 

My reasoning, for every additional one that gets added, the FOG can do more prizes for contests. 

We are at 281 right now.

Peter

Here's the whole set, including the lid.  About $18 using the FOG20 coupon code...
http://www.systainerworld.com/Tanos_Box_insert_incl_lid_insert_and_boxes_p/351-001.htm

The "Sys1 Box" for holding screws and such is very, very handy.  So organized and everything available.
I got a Fogtainer specifically to be my second box o' screws and such.

I got a fogsys 1 because I don't have a sys 1. I thought it would be useful to carry drawings, sketches, pencils, rulers etc. to and from my office to the workshop. I reckon I could get my 13" laptop in there as well.

Richard.