Illuminating... thanks Azure.Azure said:Original PayPal Pre-Order: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 15:51 UTC
Re-Pre-Order through Google Checkout: Wed, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:44 UTC
Ask for approximate queue position: Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:16 UTC
Too late!Na-Noo said:How long before the thrill turns to jealousy and impatience? :lol:
kidrdbz said:...
Time I received order confirmation:
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:09:25 +0100 (BST)
Time I received shipping confirmation:
Fri, 21 May 2010 16:05:30 +0100
borgqueenx said:craig's. wont make much of a difference anyway since i have UPS shipping.Dragons_Slayer said:HaCo said:I'm Dutch, but from Belgium
Me too I ordered from ED's shop, where did you guys (from Belgium/Netherlands) preorder yours?
The only thing im concerned about is big delays in shipping the other parts to the old village hall for the other orders.
Thanks!mindlord said:Congrats BTW.
Happy I could help.VRAndy said:Thanks though, you've given me hope!
jb0yx said:5... 4... 3... 2... 1...Na-Noo said:How long before the thrill turns to jealousy and impatience? :lol:
emil10001 said:Yea, I'm a little annoyed too. Not to detract from the awesomeness of these things actually being sent out, but we were told over and over and over again that they would be following the order in the queue. It seems that either they know what that order is or they don't. If they didn't, then Jacquelyn should not have been giving out order numbers, and they shouldn't have told us that they would be sending them out in order. I suppose that the other possibility is that the e-mail did not go out to everybody that it should have.
This seems like one of those fairly simple things that could have been done to meet our expectations. I would like to have a good general idea (within a few days) of when I am going to receive my unit. My expectation, based on the information available yesterday was that it should have shipped today, and arrived sometime mid-next week. Now, since they have gone out of order, I don't know if I will get mine next week or next month or two months. I might get bumped back to the next shipment of parts. Who knows.
Sorry, I don't mean to just sit here and bitch about it, but I was really hoping that these sorts of issues were behind us.
emil10001 said:Yea, I'm a little annoyed too. Not to detract from the awesomeness of these things actually being sent out, but we were told over and over and over again that they would be following the order in the queue. It seems that either they know what that order is or they don't. If they didn't, then Jacquelyn should not have been giving out order numbers, and they shouldn't have told us that they would be sending them out in order. I suppose that the other possibility is that the e-mail did not go out to everybody that it should have.
This seems like one of those fairly simple things that could have been done to meet our expectations. I would like to have a good general idea (within a few days) of when I am going to receive my unit. My expectation, based on the information available yesterday was that it should have shipped today, and arrived sometime mid-next week. Now, since they have gone out of order, I don't know if I will get mine next week or next month or two months. I might get bumped back to the next shipment of parts. Who knows.
Sorry, I don't mean to just sit here and bitch about it, but I was really hoping that these sorts of issues were behind us.
Nah, They're probably following an exact order, but there's any number of things that could make that order hard for us to understand.Emil10001 said:This seems like one of those fairly simple things that could have been done to meet our expectations
VRAndy said:Nah, They're probably following an exact order, but there's any number of things that could make that order hard for us to understand.Emil10001 said:This seems like one of those fairly simple things that could have been done to meet our expectations
- If some of the early orders came in on the same second (entirely likely) the sequence for some orders might literally not be known.
- They might be counting the time the "Submit" button was pressed on their forms, they might be counting the time the credit card payment went through (potentially minutes later), they might be counting the time the orders were transferred from their web page to some other database (possibly even by email!). We don't know exactly what event they're basing the timing on.
- We don't know the precise timing of whatever event they're using to judge the sequence. We're all hoping that the timestamp of our confirmation emails relate to our place in the sequence, but they've never said that.
Short version : All is well. There is no cause for alarm.
Oh. Alright then. Everybody panic.God Ginrai said:I think the Alarm is due to the fact that someone who said that he asked for his order in line and was told 550-560 has received a confirmation mail for one of the first 50 shipped.
God Ginrai said:VRAndy said:Nah, They're probably following an exact order, but there's any number of things that could make that order hard for us to understand.Emil10001 said:This seems like one of those fairly simple things that could have been done to meet our expectations
- If some of the early orders came in on the same second (entirely likely) the sequence for some orders might literally not be known.
- They might be counting the time the "Submit" button was pressed on their forms, they might be counting the time the credit card payment went through (potentially minutes later), they might be counting the time the orders were transferred from their web page to some other database (possibly even by email!). We don't know exactly what event they're basing the timing on.
- We don't know the precise timing of whatever event they're using to judge the sequence. We're all hoping that the timestamp of our confirmation emails relate to our place in the sequence, but they've never said that.
Short version : All is well. There is no cause for alarm.
I think the Alarm is due to the fact that someone who said that he asked for his order in line and was told 550-560 has received a confirmation mail for one of the first 50 shipped.
-God Ginrai
Mjlink said:I'm not bitching or jealous. I basically assumed better communications. Not even a Twitter message from CraigX today. I wonder if the UPS guy is standing in the Village Hall while they pack these up and send the emails one by one? If so, he's probably missed his cutoff for shipping today.
How many people got this email of shipping?
Seems like 3 or 4 people?
Impatient, duh, its only been almost forever.
You should run for public office with that attitude bro.GunPei2X said:Don't worry guys, it'll never be exact. It's possible the orders are just lumped into lots of 100-200 and taken from there. Or perhaps they are sorted by country, and they're sending the first few from each country? Who knows, but it'll all work out soon.