Does anyone still believe the Batteriser products can be shipped by November? That leaves 3 months now, assuming it is the last day of November. We have essentially 90 days.
We don't know if the Batteriser has been fabricated yet or if the final design has been chosen and they are already getting in gear for full-scale production.
In that time, if they have finished deciding on the final design, they will need to fabricate die and tooling for the factory to stamp out and bend the Batteriser frameworks. They will need a paint-finishing line to coat them so they don't short. They will need to have PCB's fabricated and components all ordered, with some kind of pick & place or other fabrication process to assemble them (or if they do chip-on-board). They will need a machine to automatically join the metal Batteriser clip to the PCB board.
This fabrication process will have to be repeated for at least 4 different battery sizes (AA, AAA, C, D).
Finally once they set up for mass-fabrication, they will need to run the machines 24 hours a day for some time to fulfill all of the orders required, and then will need to set up a packaging line and print out packaging and then set up the order supply-chain through Amazon, warehousing and ship all of the initial Batterisers to crowd-funding backers.
Honestly, I vote on leaving Batteriser Batteroo alone for 3 months... All of this arguing about whether it works or not is going to be a distraction for them. They really need to grind in their heals just to get production in gear to meet the deadline before peak Christmas toy-shopping season (include a set of Batterisers with every toy). We don't want to keep them from making this device, do we? I'd rather set a reminder in 3 months and then start back up into this... And once we have actual Batterisers available, I am sure this can be settled once and for all.