If you could afford a lawyer you’d be completely out of luck. This is how preorders work. You weren’t scammed, the company is just bad at setting deadlines. You wouldn’t get a thing and while I sympathize, complaints about lawyers and I saw someone hilariously mention class action (for what damages, for petes sake) distracts from the other issues.
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Here’s the thing: To prove it’s a scam, you’ll need to first ask for your money back, and have Glowforge deny paying you back. If you can gather that evidence, then it’s a scam. If not, it’s not a scam.
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Working on gathering thar info refund process finalized. Let you know in ten days.
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Good luck!
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Get your money back before its gone! I smell blood in the water.
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Naive, or incompetent? I’m leaning towards the latter.
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Given the trouble I had building a much smaller laser, I’d never in a million years call someone who’s built the glowforge, even to the extent that it is, incompetent. Lotta work’s gone into that.
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Yeah, I guess 31 million dollars wasn’t enough. . .
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Well, he’s said a number of times that purchase price is held in reserve, and they’re using external funding for production. So it’s less than that. But also, it’s not like you can have money, wave your hands, and say alakazam! Lasers!
(edit: yeah i think your number is right, my bad, but the rest of my point stands).
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My cats would beg to differ. 
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Exactly Bridget… not a package made for each country BUT something that we can ACTUALLY benefit from… something more generic but that we can use …
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If you have a specific example of what you have in mind, I’d suggest posting it to the Q&A for this afternoon.
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Hello @soytroquel,
Here is a link to the Q&A today. It’s 4PM PST. Which is about 7.5 hours from now.
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Yes, please everyone who wants their money back rush to get it done before GF closes its accounts and they all take off for Tahiti (as suggested on the forum)! Go! (so I can move up in line…for the scam). 
(I have used a lot of dark humor today) - Rich
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It has never ceased to amaze how mercurial human beings can be. When things go our way, people are so supportive and magnanimous, charitable. But hit a bump in the road, a delay, a challenge, something that makes it a little bit tough like having to wait, and people can turn so quickly. Blood in the water, jump ship…common parlance for an all too common behavior.
Instead of name calling and vilification – just get your money back like they agreed to do if you wanted it at any time. Wait until the Glowforge is “on the street” if you are still interested and buy it then.
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hahahaha but only if they are before us 
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I appreciate @dan 's situation. If you look at MakerBot. They released their fifth generation machine way, way, way before it was ready. That tanked the company. The newest version of their fifth (5.5+) generation is propably what they should have waited for.
@dan 's only (well, not really, but) problem is the founders and their need of communication vis a vis previous promises.
Peter.
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Cats don’t beg - they take what they want !!
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I apologize if my email sounded like I was mocking you. I let you down, and I am very sorry.