"IMO...The way I see it, they're not exactly a customer yet and we have to foot the bill for trial units."
By that, I mean a potential customer puts in an order for trial.
As a trial effort, without deposit, e.Digital would get them together with carrying costs, whereupon they are reimbursed at completion.
IMO...the reimbursement will be without regular markup. For that, there's no way to gage the value of their true efforts if they are mixing trials and real orders together.
For now, when I see a note ...it represents a trial or they're building inventory items.
Unless someone can convey something different to me?
doni