I’m also hoping to see more of this soon. Apparently not everyone who is even regularly on the forum feels like sharing, which I can sort of understand.
It would sure be nice if glowforge could publish/provide even a little generic information about units shipping.
So any news?
Cause…
I’m hoping that the shipping of the most recent basics means something for the Pro’s too.
Nothing yet… No email from glowforge, or updates from UPS My Choice… Keeping my eyes peeled, though!
Ours too! For whatever it’s worth, there are a lot of people rooting for your order to ship soon. It’ll be a huge benchmark, and a hopeful indicator for the rest of us who also ordered pros.
And why do not I get this mail?
Soon 1 year waiting …
Please make me receive it. ; (
A LOT of us are waiting, just like you. You’re in good company though. It shall be soon.
I know I’m not the only one–
But it’s starting to take a long time.
Just to scare me, when did you order your Glowforge?
What is going on there? When did they change July 31 to October 31, 2017 up in the greenbox? I was expecting my glowforge pro here in Munich in early August.
You must have missed the email update back on June 7th. Here’s a link to it if you would like to read it:
Make sure you have the addresses listed below whitelisted in your emails:
hello@glowforge.com
support@glowforge.com
danshapiro@glowforge.com
Just a quick update — no updates from Glowforge or UPS yet. CAAAAANNNNT WAAAAIIIIT!!!
I know some folks got their proofgrade materials separately before their Glowforge unit, but I haven’t received shipping notification for that either.
For the record, I’m liking that you’re updating us, not that you have got anything yet. 
I think they sent it to you by mistake. I’d like to be wrong, but you seem to be the only one, and they haven’t followed up yet?
Please let me be wrong!
i can’t imagine it was a mistake. more likely an attempt to make their self-imposed deadline.
And they did fix his order, It clearly reads Pro, so it wasn’t like they said “OOps, didn’t realize yours was a pro. Sorry.”
I’m certain it was not an error. I received the email notification on June 30th, the day they said they would start “shipping” Pro models.
I haven’t received any updates from Glowforge or UPS yet. We’re 3 weeks into the “6 weeks” time they quoted in my notification email… So it shooooouuuuuld be soon!
Would love an update from team Glowforge though (@dan). Curious what the long pole is (box/package re-design? Certification? Production? Other?)
I’m a daily lurker here, but I likely missed some basic info, so hence my question.
So when we receive our email to confirm shipping, is that a confirmation that it will arrive up to 6 weeks later? If so, that’s a bit odd to me. Why would it take 6 weeks after asking if we want it?
Aren’t they cranking out GFs and as soon as the next one is ready they ship it right out to someone? Why a 6 week delay after confirmation?
Lots of potential reasons but I suspect it’s due to regulatory issues. There are many jurisdictions in the U.S. where if you do not get what you ordered within 4 weeks or notice that it will take longer, they have to give you your money back - even if it shows up on your doorstep at the 5 week mark. So if they give you a heads up beforehand that it’s 6 weeks they have cushion.
It also would seem to allow them to streamline shipping logistics if they want to ship on Mondays or something every week instead of every day. Allows them to coordinate with the PG samples, etc.
Or it could be that there’s one guy building our machines one at a time 
We don’t actually have any information that would answer this question.
Lots of folks may guess, but they really don’t know.
The only way we could know is if someone at Glowforge told us, and they 'aint telling.
Haha! I might actually buy the one-guy theory…
I know it ultimately doesn’t matter because it is what it is, but I can’t get my head around it. If you have thousands of people waiting on each one that rolls off the line, I would think that there’d be no reason to get an OK from anyone for quite a while. Every single one will have a home for months to come.
Oh well, I’ve waited for this long with virtually no concrete info. I can wait longer. 
Understood. But there are lots of people here who are smarter than I am, so I figured someone could hazard a reasonable guess. I can’t think of a good one myself, which is why I asked.