Eric:
This was a crowd-funding effort, but I agree with you that they also called it a pre-order. However, this is not ordering a known, finished product, but accepting that there would be real development, real modifications, real delays. Yes, the venture capital backing increased the odds that there would be a finished product, which we are all getting, but it did not prevent the need for multiple iterations, testing, and development that made it later than they originally predicted.
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be extremely wary of quoting things after the fact. itās easy to look at those headlines and think so, but it wasnāt billed as crowdfunding when the orders went live; it was a vc-backed company with millions in the bank before the pre-order launch.
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Thatās pretty depressing to hearā¦
Is it possible to pick up my Glowforge when it is available? I live about an hour away from the facility here in CA and would like to avoid the shipping troubles.
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Unfortunately we donāt have any way to do in-person pickup.
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Iām right with you Valerie, we are in the East Bay.