Like many here, I have developed an emotional investment with this product and have become obscenely too forgiving.
I don't blame Micasaverde for putting out slick videos, that's what marketing folks do. But after consistently delivering such a poor product I have come to believe that Micasaverde must have contempt for their customers. Are we the tech version of Goldman Sachs “Muppets?”
I so desperately want to LOVE this product. She's like an incredibly beautiful woman who just keeps treating me like ..... Shhhh… dung. What a tease!
If the firmware was anywhere near ready for “prime time” I would gladly value this product in the $300 to $600 range. If this product met its own claims, it would be a solid value. In fact, sell me the product that nice brunette in the video is demonstrating. It’s surely not the one I bought. MOM WAS RIGHT! You truly do get what you pay for. By this metric, the Vera-2 is grossly over-priced.
To my techie friends, I caution them to pick any product but Vera. Kind of an empty suggestion because there is no tooth fairy that makes the product Vera promises.
For myself I continue to be a glutton for punishment. I’ve sunk several thousand dollars into the system and am currently in a holding pattern. I faithfully come to these forums and daily click on the Firmware update tab looking for the Promised Land. I keep hoping I’ll see back-to-back forum entries along the lines of “Shazammm! Vera 4 is FANTASTIC.” If that day comes, I’d gladly drop a fist full of Benjamin Franklins on the counter to be first in line.
This product has such incredible potential! That’s the part that drives me crazy. Reminds me of the Marlin Brando line in the movie On the Waterfront.
"I could have been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”
