Hi JR, (the remainder of your question was cut off, but please re-post if you like)
Both Jase and I have separately reported that Jeff said at the Adelaide presentation : "much larger Olay eye wand going into China next year. Wave II whole face applicator for anti-aging and tone, going to market, we believe, later next year."
Olay Eye Wand
To answer your question about the 200k wands and why dispatch them now if the product won't launch till next year, I asked Jeff almost that very question. Jeff said that he had met with the head of Olay China several days prior and they were still working through the launch plans. About 100k of the wands went to Olay and those were for the purpose of training, promotion, and initial stocking. So I said that sounds like the launch might be pretty soon, surely in time for Christmas. Jeff replied that they may want to launch it for Chinese New Year.
So three elements in these statements to support 2017 Olay Eye Wand launch :
1) Jeff says "next year"
2) Olay China still working on launch plans
3) I suggest Christmas 2016, Jeff counters "maybe" CNY 2017 (28 Jan).
My take is that the best case for launch of the Olay Eye Wand would be near the first week in January 2017, allowing time to ramp up for CNY. Perhaps we will see blogger promos earlier than this or not.
Wave II
I asked Jeff if we might see Wave II early or middle of next year. He replied that SK-II launch anti-aging and toning products in the Fall, and that is when they believed it would be (I expect September 2017). So that is two statements from Jeff saying "later next year" and "Fall 2017". Now also consider that the Wave II device is not just a wand with a few micro-arrays glued on. Its a very highly engineered electromechanical device, and though the engineering phase has been completed, the product exists only as a prototype at this point.
Given all that, I see no reason to doubt what Jeff has most recently stated, regardless of what we may have hoped based on earlier announcements. Furthermore, I would not give serious consideration to another SK-II product just appearing out of nowhere in the next few weeks or months. So for me, its BodyGuard and Coty I am waiting for.
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