I will of course not send board to people who didn't pay. I can accept standard bank transfer (for everyone in euro-zone) or paypal (for international orders). If you want to bypass the waiting list, the best way is probably to meet me at some demoparty (I usually attend Forever and ReSeT) and get your board there (you also save the shipping price).
I don't want people to pay for the board more than it's worth (especially for the first prototypes). So I won't put them on an ebay bid myself. If you want to make me happy, you can:
- Write software that uses the board - I will probably use your software myself
- Write open source software that uses the board - I can continue to use and improve it even long after you've stopped working on it
- Pay more than the set price if you think the board is worth more. You have to know that the 24.90€ price covers all the hardware costs (about 20€) and the remaining money is used to buy tools and other things I forgot to count (the computers I use, the soldering iron and solder wire, flux pen, etc) as well as because of problems that may occur during manufacturing (such as finding a major design flaw in the first 5 boards), and also for "service" costs (some of you maybe have a FlashGordon where I had to replace a faultly switch or an incompatible logic chip). If you think this is worth more than 5€, you can pay more.
I don't want to accept payments in advance, because it would put me under pressure to deliver the boards quickly. As long as no one has paid, I can cancel the project at any time if things goes wrong, or hand it over to someone else (anyone wants to help assembling the boards?).
I will ship the boards in the order of the waiting list, unless people want to be moved down in the list to make sure people actually interested in writing software (not just using already existing tools) get their boards first. OffseT and TFM are already at the top, and they plan to write support for Mass storage under AMSDOS and networking under FutureOS, respectively (if I followed things correctly).
So, if you have a planned use for the board already, just talk about it here and try to get people to move after you in the list because they want your software

. Don't worry, eventually everyone will get a board.