Is it random who gets their glow forge first?

[cgilchrist7]

I just wonder who get there glow forge first is it by order date or random. I see a lot of people getting there if its not a problem could you please let us know your purchase date.

[jrnelson]

i’m pretty sure there are a number of threads going on about dates; someone’s put together a google spreadsheet. if you search around the forum, you’re likely to find it.

[kittski]

Hi and welcome to the forum! Shipping has been discussed ad nauseam lately and there’s just too much to really cover. Basically no, it’s not random, but it’s not as simple as going by order date either. We don’t know the exact criteria GF is using though so much of what you’ll read is speculation on how they are going about it.

Here’s the discussion jrnelson mentioned. It has a lot of info and the spreadsheet

A Game While We Wait for our GF's

Who Has Waited the Longest? (i.e. Who were the first ten people to order a GF when the crowd funding started?) Who Has Waited the Least Amount of Time? (i.e. Who were the last ten people to order a GF before the October 25 dead line?) To get this started, I ordered the last day of the crowd funding period, at 5:04 Pacific Time on October 25, 2015. Anyone out there who crowd funded and have waited less time than me? That is why I have been so patient, I haven’t waited as long as most of the …

This will get ya started too.
https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=shipping

Just in case you haven;t seen this either.

Email update June 2017: Glowforge shipments underway, schedule update, and more

This email was sent to all customers June 7th at 2PM PST. If you didn’t receive it, please add hello@glowforge.com to your contacts so that we can reach you. Based on past feedback, we’ve set up a separate thread for comments here. Production has started, and we have a heck of an update for you about your Glowforge. Executive Summary Note: our customers always ask about providing more detail, so this has a lot of detail. All the crucial information is in this summary if you don’t have time t…

[newbies_234]

I am curious, what do you imagine the benefit of random shipping would be to the business? Personally, I imagine it would be much harder to track and more expensive to throw a dart at a map and say this one.

[cindyhodesigns]

I’m thinking of the possiblilty that Glowforge is trying to ship to as many states as possible to gather data on how the machines fair from start point to destinations. I’d be interested to the rural locations. Now is the best time to adjust packaging before going international

[cgilchrist7]

I order October 20 just wanted to know the order dates of people who have
them already it might be able to give me a ruff idea I will get mys.

[takitus]

there were 6000 orders by the 20th

[jrnelson]

unfortunately it won’t because we have no idea how quickly per day glowforge is making basics or pros, and that ratio will change in the coming month anyway

[bdm]

@newbies_234

I am curious, what do you imagine the benefit of random shipping would be to the business? Personally, I imagine it would be much harder to track and more expensive to throw a dart at a map and say this one.

I think that @cindyhodesigns has got it in one. My impression is that they are not ‘spamming deliveries’ because they want to be 100% sure that their carrier and their processes are correct.
These are expensive and difficult to ship units, imagine if they sent out 100 with a 10% failure rate… that would be difficult for all involved and would not help the Brand at such a crucial time.

As with ever single backer/kickstarter campaign i have seen… we are on the home straight, there is no need to panic or rush things now.

[jrnelson]

@bdm

As with ever single backer/kickstarter campaign i have seen… we are on the home straight, there is no need to panic or rush things now.

agree