Glowforge release

[Bert Kemp]

I read this morning that many buyers are getting notices that their shipping is being delayed again. How do they put up with this. ?

[Michael Henriksen]

How do they put up with this. ?

Because they are waiting for the first 3D laser printer the World has ever seen and know it will change their lives forever because of all the fantastic things they can make with it

[Bert Kemp]

Thanks now I know

Because they are waiting for the first 3D laser printer the World has ever seen and know it will change their lives forever because of all the fantastic things they can make with it

[Bert Kemp]

its just amazing to read all the problems these people are having and then see how they justify it.I'm kinda in the same boat. I just bought a new item along with a few hundred others. We paid $500 for this item and it has problems. Well mine has gone back twice now to the factory for repairs, but others that have the same problems are making excuses saying thing like oh it needs breaking in or maybe a little oil here and there will help. Sorry it should work right out of the box and if it doesn't I send it back.

[Mike Henry3424]

its just amazing to read all the problems these people are having and then see how they justify it.I'm kinda in the same boat. I just bought a new item along with a few hundred others. We paid $500 for this item and it has problems. Well mine has gone back twice now to the factory for repairs, but others that have the same problems are making excuses saying thing like oh it needs breaking in or maybe a little oil here and there will help. Sorry it should work right out of the box and if it doesn't I send it back.

For the GF owners need to rationalize the problems to keep more buyers coming in. To paraphrase one of fan girls on the forum "if the company fails we only have a dead laser cutter". That might have been in their private forum section, from back when I still had access.

[Bill George]

For the GF owners need to rationalize the problems to keep more buyers coming in. To paraphrase one of fan girls on the forum "if the company fails we only have a dead laser cutter". That might have been in their private forum section, from back when I still had access.

Because of the GF KAK's * support the value will stay up and they can sell when it comes at the opportune moment, kind of like the BitCoin gold rush craze. Timing is everything, cash out and go!!

[Dave Sheldrake]

See it all the time in this industry when people make bad choices...they will simply look for the information that supports their bad decision rather than look objectively at the situation and come to a reasoned conclusion.

Bert you need to get with the new way of thinking

Your $500 item is great because it only cost you $500 rather than the $700 everybody else paid, they must be stupid to pay $700 and you must be smart to only pay $500. Ok, so theirs works and yours doesn't but at least the company you got it from will fix it for you (eventually if they don't go bust for selling $500 tat)
Even if yours never works you did only pay $500 for it after all rather than $700 so you will still be $200 up on the deal with your broken wigit

Think what you can do with that $200, dude, that's like Christmas coming twice a year. In fact that $200 you earned is great, you could get a few tubs of Cermark...maybe take Mrs Kemp out for a nice meal and an evening away.

see where this goes? eventually with enough re-enforcement people will only ever see the $200 you "Gained" rather than the $500 you threw away

[Kev Williams]

lol-- reminds me of the wife who just spent $300 for 1/2 price shoes justifying it to her husband by proclaiming "--but I SAVED $300 so it's like I got them for free!!"

(not my wife, btw)

[Jerome Stanek]

lol-- reminds me of the wife who just spent $300 for 1/2 price shoes justifying it to her husband by proclaiming "--but I SAVED $300 so it's like I got them for free!!"

(not my wife, btw)

Or like a friend of mine that his wife went to a casino and said she won $700 but she didn't say that she came home with less money than she went with

[Bert Kemp]

Ah but Dave heres the thing the company I bought this from is in no danger of going under and they have the BEST customer service in the business, bar none. So I'm not worried they will take care of the problems. Second a few years ago they made this product( was a little different but not much difference) and were selling it for $500 but I didn't buy one back then. They decided they could not make a profit at that price point and stopped making it.. That Item that sold for $500 back then now sells for over $3000. So if in the unlikely event they stop making them again I have a great investment.

See it all the time in this industry when people make bad choices...they will simply look for the information that supports their bad decision rather than look objectively at the situation and come to a reasoned conclusion.

Bert you need to get with the new way of thinking

Your $500 item is great because it only cost you $500 rather than the $700 everybody else paid, they must be stupid to pay $700 and you must be smart to only pay $500. Ok, so theirs works and yours doesn't but at least the company you got it from will fix it for you (eventually if they don't go bust for selling $500 tat)
Even if yours never works you did only pay $500 for it after all rather than $700 so you will still be $200 up on the deal with your broken wigit

Think what you can do with that $200, dude, that's like Christmas coming twice a year. In fact that $200 you earned is great, you could get a few tubs of Cermark...maybe take Mrs Kemp out for a nice meal and an evening away.

see where this goes? eventually with enough re-enforcement people will only ever see the $200 you "Gained" rather than the $500 you threw away

[Lee DeRaud]

It doesn't count as "disruptive technology" if it's operating in a market niche that didn't previously exist ("currently uncharted territory"): there's nothing to disrupt. Making established tech more user-friendly (not that I think GF does that) doesn't cut it either.

The normal definition of disruptive technology is something new that does something old in a way that makes the old implementation (semi-)obsolete. The best current example I can come up with is the Kindle et al.