Who will be our first Pro?

I think storage space is at a premium in most factories and having finished stock on the books makes the accountants unhappy.

I agree. So what I am saying is unless UPS for some reason can’t pick up more than N units per day, and there are thousands to ship, at the end of the day there should be zero to be stored (since currently the list of shippable addresses is so deep there is never a reason to store). And if you are overloading UPS’s ability to pick up (we wish) then UPS will make multiple pickups I am sure.

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The list of shippable addresses is only as long as the number of people who have replied to the email. So you have to send out plenty in advance in case a few people don’t reply in time. So if they do all reply you can’t ship them all straight away. At lease some people will have to wait for their machine to be made.

Not sure why it is two weeks though. Seems like it should only be a day or two. I.e. keep emailing people until you have enough takers to pick up today’s dispatch. Roll over all those that didn’t reply in time to the next day. Do the same the next day. It doesn’t matter how many don’t reply there will always be enough that do.

yep. Seems logical. I’d also buy a day or 2 max delay. And that would assume a higher rate of deferrals/ not seeing emails… We certainly know there are a lot of active users scanning their email accounts intensely! :grinning:

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No doubt after two years a few emails will bounce and a few people will have died. Actually looking at the US death rate it could be about 80 in 10000.

I swear, you always know how to brighten someones day lol.

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I think, fwiw, that the time from email to physical ship is now closer to a week. I got my email on a friday iirc (late afternoon, so my response would have sat over the weekend) and UPS says the origin scan was the next-plus-one tuesday (so 7 business days).

So many people deserve a pro.

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There you go I just updated the spreadsheet with my information.

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My Pro order was placed on September 24, 2015 at 7:31AM, so I was very early on (first day of crowdfunding campaign)… I’m not the most active on the forums however, so that may push me down the “priority list”.

I haven’t received any notification emails yet… Patiently waiting to see the forum activity on June 30th!

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I’m also super anxious to hear updates on pro orders getting emails saying their units are ready and getting actually shipped and received, but Dan has mentioned before that June 30 is sort of a soft deadline:

well based on the timetable dan’s been using lately, the august production report should be around shortly to give us an update :laughing:

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That’s a more optimistic way of looking at things than worrying that it means we won’t get another update until August and they can avoid having to post any updates shortly after pros are scheduled to start shipping :smirk:

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Or a July - Part Deux :slight_smile:

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The terminology they use is always a little confusing. Where I would use the term “Shipping” as the product is on the loading dock with a label on it, waiting for the shipper to pick it up, They seem to have transformed the term from something like “Order acknowledged” or "Ready to Produce"
Hopefully the Pro production line starts tomorrow, and a bunch of Pro people get their emails tomorrow. Although the way the first round of e-mails went out, I’m thinking Pro production is not going to start tomorrow. ;(

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The last email received update shows as 8 days ago. could this be indicative of the shift of production from Basic to Pro?

Should a column be added for “Regular” members?

Bummer for those Basics who ordered on the first day if they don’t get their units before Pro production starts, when others who ordered after the campaign have got theirs.

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As someone who ran a manufacturing supply chain, pulling it from the inventory to go to shipping would alleviate it from inventory but we didn’t book the revenue or consider it shipped until it was shipped (i.e. handed to shipper for their delivery process to occur).

Of course every company has their own processes.

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You guys are in my wheel house here so one thing to note is that Flex doesn’t necessarily need to ship the part to realize and book the sale of a glowforge since they’re a supplier. I have seen a ton of contacts where the suppliers are paid for the completion of the part and ship in place to get paid. We would also have contracts in which the suppliers would be paid a portion of the total at specific stages of their process.

With that being said, Flex may not care that they’re holding completed inventory as they know it won’t be long and they’re being paid to hold it while they do

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Hah! Gave up on that definition of shipped about 300 Ebay purchases ago. I sometimes get a “It’s Shipped” notice within minutes of purchase at 3am their local time. UPS pickup sometimes a week later. But agree your definition is a far more correct and preferred way of doing it.

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It definitely follows GAAP better than anything else. Every company is different though and whennut comes to ebay, it’s a total crapshoot

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