Your Place In The Preorder Line?

Your Place In The Preorder Line? (bins of size 250)


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cosurgi

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So much time has passed and so many things happened, that I'm sure that you already know what's your place in the line. I'm wondering what is the correlation between the frequency of visiting our boards (hence the vote) and the initial rush during the night, when preorders happened.

I'm not adding an 'insensitive clod' option, because only 15 options are allowed, and we don't need votes from people who didn't vote, just to know what's the percentage of people who didn't order (this percentage is accessible in multitude of other polls).

Also, I assume that you already know your place. If you don't, then you don't need to vote. And please don't bother Jacquelyn just because you wanted to vote. Just skip voting.

EDIT: in fact you will be able to estimate your place once other people give information abut their timings, and I will add it to the poll. Just look at the date of your confirmation email. I received mine 3 minutes after doing the order.

EDIT: watch out for the timezones! When you tell your order time, give the timezone too. Or say that you are using UTC+00.

EDIT: I used compilation by yonder711 to update the poll info:

yonder711 said:
Here is what i have so far. :rolleyes:
This is compiled off of all replies to this post and pandorapress.

2008-09-30 3:31BST 167
2008-09-30 4:20P GMT+1 250-350
2008-09-30 ? 350-450
2008-09-30 16:45BST 400-500
2008-09-30 19:13GMT 600-700
2008-10-01 15:25:05 +1 350-400
2008-10-05 5:42PM EST? 1350-1450
2009-02-05 ? 1500-1600
2009-02-15 ? 1600–1700
2009-03-19 ? 1750–1850
2009-05-05 ? 1850-1950
2009-08-09 ? 2500
2009-10-15 ? 2200-2300
2009-10-04 ? 3100-3200

This shuld make guessing just a little easier.
I ordered the list by supposed position but that makes some of the dates look out of whack its probably just position shift depending on when you asked your position.
 
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Could a few people who know their place in the line also state at which date/time they placed their order? Then it would be possible for us who haven't "bothered Jacquelyn" to approximate our place as well.

BTW, I'm reserving this post for adding diagrams and stuff later.
 
dflemstr said:
Could a few people who know their place in the line also state at which date/time they placed their order? Then it would be possible for us who haven't "bothered Jacquelyn" to approximate our place as well.
Great idea, once people provide their timings, I'll add them to the poll options. My timing is:

Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 19:15 - place=700 UTC+1

EDIT: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 18:15 - place=700 GMT
 
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I've tried to get some statistics out of this data, and I've reached the unscientific conclusion that the "1000's limit" was on the 2nd October 2008 at about 3pm (all times I ever post are in UTC btw). I'd like to narrow that down even further if possible.
 
cosurgi said:
Great idea, once people provide their timings, I'll add them to the poll options. My timing is:

Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 19:15 - place=700

Out of interest, how old is that information cosurgi?

I ordered almost exactly 3 hours after you and I was hoping to be in the first 700, but I guess not given that. Although if enough people in front have cancelled :p
 
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Does the place in the pre order line have anything to do with a order number from Google Checkout?
 
Esslan said:
I got my confirmation mail at 21.05 on September 30 (UTC+2) and I am between 750 - 850 (in Craig's list I presume) according to Jacquelyn.
Ahhh. I was in UTC+1 when ordering! I must take that into account. Thanks!

I didn't know that the 750-1000 spanned whole two days. That's surprising.

Maybe I did the granularity wrong, by using the bins of the same size?
 
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I ordered end of March 2009. Anyone else that knows there place order about this time?
Cosurgi - keep updating the poll as you learn stuff.

Might be an idea to formally ask OPT for a simple look-up table. Jacquelyn would only need to calc it once and email a link to the forum post thereafter.
Say, the order date of the last position in the range and then we know within 500 where we are and should be able to guess when we'll get it based on production rates when these firm up a bit.

0-500 23rd Sept 2008
-1000 5th Oct 2008
etc

(dates are made up as an example).

Or we see how this post goes and we may end up with much the same thing.

edit: manners... @Cosurgi Please!
 
may88 said:
I ordered end of March 2009. Anyone else that knows there place order about this time?
Cosurgi - keep updating the poll as you learn stuff.

Might be an idea to formally ask OPT for a simple look-up table. Jacquelyn would only need to calc it once and email a link to the forum post thereafter.
Say, the order date of the last position in the range and then we know within 500 where we are and should be able to guess when we'll get it based on production rates when these firm up a bit.

0-500 23rd Sept 2008
-1000 5th Oct 2008
etc

(dates are made up as an example).

Or we see how this post goes and we may end up with much the same thing.

edit: manners... @cosurgi Please!
manners are at "@" ? :)

end of March 2009 - but what's your place?
 
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I was <50
Ordered first day at about 6:30am Pacific Time in California or it was 7:30, don't have the original email anymore and am not sure because its been so damn long ago and I've numbed those brain cells with THC.

Peace and more THC,

its Friday,

Link
 
cosurgi said:
may88 said:
I ordered end of March 2009. Anyone else that knows there place order about this time?
Cosurgi - keep updating the poll as you learn stuff.

Might be an idea to formally ask OPT for a simple look-up table. Jacquelyn would only need to calc it once and email a link to the forum post thereafter.
Say, the order date of the last position in the range and then we know within 500 where we are and should be able to guess when we'll get it based on production rates when these firm up a bit.

0-500 23rd Sept 2008
-1000 5th Oct 2008
etc

(dates are made up as an example).

Or we see how this post goes and we may end up with much the same thing.

edit: manners... @cosurgi Please!
manners are at "@" ? :)

end of March 2009 - but what's your place?

If I knew that I would have posted. :) I'm with dflemstr and will not bother J with this trivia. Hoping I'll be able to guess before this topic runs its course.
 
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I thought I heard myself say 'unscientific' above, which in this case meant that I basically pulled that 3pm factoid out of my ass (because I've since gotten data that doesn't fit with the 3pm model). The 2nd of Oct 2008 is accurate, though.

(I mention this because cosurgi decided to alter the poll's fields)
 
Ordered from: www.gp2xstore.com GP32 Distribution LTD

Confirmation email: September 30th 2008 at 10:39 UTC-5

approximate place in line: 250-350
 
I needed to change some information, so I asked about my position.

I ordered in early March 2009, and my position is 1650-1750.

I thought I'd be around 3000
 
I'm 1700-1800 as of December 2009 (ordered 30 Jan 2009). I voted 1501-1750 because it has been some months from that data so i think that its the more likely bin for me to in, still it was hard to choose ...
 
My confirmation e-mail is dated as being from Tuesday September 30, 2008 at 3:31PM BST.

When I asked in November, Jacquelyn kindly told me that I'm approximately 167 in the queue at Craig's store.

I hope this helps someone in being unscientific. :p
 
I really wanted to avoid bothering them by asking for my number, but I have to admit I am curious
 
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