August 2018 newsletter
As this is the first newletter of this company, it is my pleasure to wish you, first visitors, a warm welcome.
This modest project took shape nearly 3 years ago and went into real life at the beginning of summer 2018. This long gestation time allowed to refine the whole idea of this project, to develop and test on the long run the sustainability of the products, to observe the market and to identify expectations. In parallel, this whole website had to be develop, some equipment to be assembled and to test various options.
The philosophy of this micro-business is not to compete with the existing resellers but to propose different and complementary things, to offer custom options, at a reasonable cost. Hence, only a few products in the catalog are not manufactured by myself. There is no plan for now to distribute and sell some brands. Maybe in a few years but not for now.
When you browse this website, you may notice there are many options from color choice to sizes of some products. The choice of the color is something that in the dive industry can often be summarized as ranging from black to black while in parallel, we seek underwater colors especially while doing underwater pictures or film.
The diversity of options on some products means there is no stock except for raw matter. Having a stock has a cost (warehouse, products) that is transferred to the customer. Here at Eocean, everything is assembled upon order. The drawback is that it creates a processing time for the customer. Milling or printing a mid-size part is a matter of hours followed by its assembly (EOCEAN is registred as a craftman's company). Hence no order can be processed in less than 24h. The magnitude of processing is from 3 to 5 days. I try to do it as fast as possible. Finally, most products can be modified easily for special requests from colored patterns to size adaptation for a housing or lens. This is the major advantage of being at all production stages from design to shipping.
About the products, there are more than 60 products available at the launch of this website. Others will appear during this month. Most of the effort has been geared towards flip system for macro. This is where historically most of the developments have been made. There are still a few models missing. The other main category is floats which can be custom cut. Many tests have been done to find the right foam and a full ecosystem of accessories allows easy attachment points to housing, flexible or ball arms. This category will also grow over the next weeks.
Finally E-OCEAN is at its own roots deeply into engineering, rapid prototyping, experiments rather than purely selling stuff. Products on the catalog are the results of requests, wishes, experiments. Others will join the catalog and others still need some brainstorming.
So, in short, if one product is missing, don't hesitate to contact me. The suggestion box is ready !