I was wondering if Glowforge has sent out any units yet. I thought they were supposed to release the middle of December.
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I was wondering if Glowforge has sent out any units yet. I thought they were supposed to release the middle of December.
I think there are a lot of people with issues. Seems the December ship date was only for a small number of "beta testers" who will use them in educational and maker type spaces, and then they'll take feedback from those users and make changes needed and start working on the next wave. I've seen people say they they won't be getting it until August of 2016. I'd be a wee bit upset if I paid you $4,000 for something that I wouldn't get for a year after you took my money. But that's just me. I don't think I'm alone, since I saw a post where that announcement was made and then they said after that, they had 11,000 service tickets filed on their system. I don't suspect that was 11,000 tickets saying "No worries, just send it whenever you can....".
Latest seems to be public units hitting the end of 2016
The reason I asked is I was wondering if anybody actually started using one and if their claim that the camera can follow the object.
Straight from their website"If you purchased on or before 10/24/15, your order will ship before July 2016. If you purchased after 10/24/15, your order will ship before October 2016."
Yikes Scott I'm with you, over a year with my cash and I got nothing to show for it:mad:. Then you have to hope that They can fix all the bugs:eek: I would never go in on a program like that. If it was something I wanted I'd wait till the company was actually making and selling them with good feedback. To many scams out there were people take your money and you get nothing in return or you get junk in return.
I did not think they got paid in advance? Thought it was just a reservation. Nice write up in A&E magazine this month about the changes that home owned lasers like the GlowForge will bring to the market place.
Paid in advance, hmmm... Just checked the 'rollout' page, almost $28 million.... in advance?
It that's so, what's to stop those with the money from retiring to some island somewhere?
Kickstarter pay out when the KS funding finishes its run. So in effect if the KS has finished then they will have paid out the money.
Unless it's an LLC or Ltd then they can just fold the company :(Quote:
If its a "pre-order" via a companies website then they are legally bound to abide by commerce law and fulfill there proposed outcome for the funds
Whoever claimed a December "release" date was mistaken, whether he realized it or not. It appears the company is shipping a few beta test units. I wouldn't consider a product "released" until it is for sale to the general public. People who are paying in advance are simply buying a promise.