as long as production is continuing unabated and with ramp up, lack of shipping could be a non-issue. there could be a pile of machines waiting for new shipping materials and a swarm of machines coming in the next few weeks.
A confirmation or denial of shipping/production delays from an official source sure would be a welcome change from all the speculation.
This represents cumulative number of Glowforges ordered by the date indicated … right?
Correct, for the most part. I think it’s orders placed, so if someone ordered 1000 forges on a single order, that would add 1 to this amount instead of 1000. Seeing as how that’s pretty improbable, I would say this data is a fairly good representation
Agreed, there is also a large possibility it wasn’t just shipping materials they’ve been waiting on after the initial units were produced and shipped. They may have also been waiting on any number of parts to arrive in order to scale production.
As always, thanks for the update!
Those screens though!! Right up my alley with larger scale projects like that. So stoked to see that, and so glad I bought a pro! Can’t wait <3
Let’s not forget there are institutions and organizations that are not represented at all on the forum and could be receiving their units. Those customers are also likely to buy several and may receive them at the same time rather than one shipping email at a time. Everything that is not a Dan post is speculation though.
I love those screens! Thanks for the update, but I had been hoping to hear how after a really slow first couple days the Pro shipments would be coming a little quicker. It doesn’t look like there’s been much of a dent in first day orders for either Pro or Basic, and ours went in on the 26th. After our chat at Maker Faire Bay Area I’d been hoping we’d get ours in time to use it for some art for this year’s Burning Man, but I think that was a little too optimistic. I’m still hopeful, and glad to hear about the packaging improvements.
Yes but that doesn’t matter. We have a spread sheet with 229 people on it and only 17 deliveries after 8 weeks. At the current rate it will take two years.
I doubt there are many organisations that ordered on the first day because it is hard to get a purchase order and payment through that fast in an organisation.
Lol at your speculation calling out other speculation as not important.
Mine isn’t speculation of hypothetical organisations ordering multiple machines on the first day. It is real data from a spread sheet. It is the only measure we have and unless you think there is something statistically odd about the sample of people who volunteered their information it should be pretty representative.
This is speculation.
This is an assumption about average rates that could be true or could have nothing to do with reality. Either way, your post was needlessly dismissive.
Have you ever tried to order something as a member of an organisation? Very hard to do it in a single day in an organisation big enough to order multiple machines.
Yes or course it is possible that the MD of a big company ordered 200 on the first day and Glowforge have been churning out hundreds a month for the last two months, but I don’t think so.
Two years is extrapolation if the rate does not change. Of course I expect it to increase at some point but it is a simple statement of fact to say “At the current rate it will take two years.”
Either way, we have a sample, and it’s the best we have. When you don’t communicate, people speculate, that’s the way it works. There’s a way to fix that but it’s not my company and it’s not my choice to make. I’ve been part of other crowdfunding/pre-order projects that are more transparent about their shipping (e.g. up to #1234/23456) but Glowforge has been quite clear that they’re never going to tell us that. So we are left trying to extrapolate. People who are good with statistics could probably put some error bars on it and calculate the exact probability that shipments are or are not stalled.
All I know is it looks like I’m not getting a birthday present today. My happiness was at a local maximum when I saw the first post that a Pro e-mail went out, and has been slowly declining since, as it has become clear that was a single token order, so that “June 30: Glowforge Pro shipments start” would be technically correct. We’ve seen this cycle a few times: initial hope, gradual worry, and a dawning realization that hope is not a strategy and the numbers are telling a different story. There are 109 days left until “October 31: All Basic and Pro orders placed by 10/26/2015 shipped”. I’m not that great with math, but at the current rate of progress, only 1/4 of the ones we know about will be delivered by then. There’s probably some function involving “e” that would explain how non-linearly production would have to ramp up to change that, and how much less realistic it gets with each passing day of lost progress.
Huh. I didn’t start out intending to be so negative, I guess I’m more bummed out today than I thought.
Well Happy Birthday anyway.
Happy bday! I would not say it’s negative, you make very valid points and have every right to be dissapointed.
I’m not too much in a rush to get it as I have a bit of time left to get the workshop space setup, but fully understand other folks anxiousness.
Plus the longer it takes, the more features will be enabled…
I asked this question a couple times on the Facebook page and could not get a straight answer from whoever was responding. It also took them 3 days to respond.
For us Canadian backers that got in before the end of the campaign, is there even a vague idea of when our orders will start shipping. Pretty much at the end of my rope patience wise. If my wife had her way we would already have the refund.
This is the best I can do for you.
I agree, your not necessarily being negative, just pragmatic with what info we have to base estimates from. I am happy that they are indeed shipping at least some, but I ordered day 2 and my euphoria has been very very tempered that its still looking like weeks or even a month plus before I get mine at this current rate.