dumblegeorge
Member
hi guys,
from what i know / i guess, i would not take the poll too seriously (for the good or the bad). what can be cautiously guessed from the poll is a rough ratio of the "pre-announcement" orders (before may, 8th) in relation to the "post-announcement" orders. the actual numbers, as far as i can guess / as far as i can deduce from what i've read here and alswhere are much higher. at the end of may the g66 waiting list was "much larger than 1000" (quote from g66) and as far as i remember from past researches in the forum (i've been following the "whining"/"stop whining" and "cliff should / should not do xyz" and "(*tearfully*) thank you cliff for saying (<some subject predicate object sentence>)" stuff for about half a year now) the difference in g66 order-confirmation-numbers from november 2010 to april 2011 alone is about 400-500. while nobody knows for shure how these order-confirmation-numbers map to the actual orders, at least they allow a semi-educated guess about the real numbers involved.
as the situation is how it (very very probably, next to certainty) is
(--cliff and the rest of the fas team (thank you guys for the hard (over-)time you are probably putting into this thing over the last 4 months!) doing their very best to produce as many units as possible (why wouldn't they?),
--certainly no conspiracies going on. if fas had enough units they would sell them to anybody who would want one (no matter whether european or australian or russian or from whereever).
--fas waiting for parts and having no real information considering delivery dates from their suppliers,
--g66 being absolutely polite and helpful and telling what they know / what they can safely say (from a business tactis perspective) and cannot do much about their situation)
and how it probably is (considering all the contributions in the forum and elsewhere weighted with an estimated credibility score for the respective contributors)
(--fas probably providing slightly more units for the us web-shop for 2599 usd than for g66 and other overseas distributors (because presumably fas earn more from a unit sold for 2599 usd than from a unit going overseas, since they probably will have made delivery contracts BEFORE the frenzy at considerably lower prices per unit for the distributors),
--cliff still being unnerved by all the criticism and unwanted advice (which probably is partly due to the severe stress he is / was exposed to)
--fas providing any info they have concerning delivery prospects to their distributors (why wouldn't they?)
--g66 and the other distributors providing any positive info they have to their cutomers (why should they hold back that positive info?))
the only thing that is left to us in europe and other non-us countries from my perspective is
--wait
--PERHAPS take the freedom to POLITELY ask cliff in this forum to SOONER deliver MORE units overseas once the parts that are currently missing arrive
asking g66 or fas to also freely provide the "negative" info they possibly have is probably a bit naive from a business perspective.
nice greetings
dumbleg.
from what i know / i guess, i would not take the poll too seriously (for the good or the bad). what can be cautiously guessed from the poll is a rough ratio of the "pre-announcement" orders (before may, 8th) in relation to the "post-announcement" orders. the actual numbers, as far as i can guess / as far as i can deduce from what i've read here and alswhere are much higher. at the end of may the g66 waiting list was "much larger than 1000" (quote from g66) and as far as i remember from past researches in the forum (i've been following the "whining"/"stop whining" and "cliff should / should not do xyz" and "(*tearfully*) thank you cliff for saying (<some subject predicate object sentence>)" stuff for about half a year now) the difference in g66 order-confirmation-numbers from november 2010 to april 2011 alone is about 400-500. while nobody knows for shure how these order-confirmation-numbers map to the actual orders, at least they allow a semi-educated guess about the real numbers involved.
as the situation is how it (very very probably, next to certainty) is
(--cliff and the rest of the fas team (thank you guys for the hard (over-)time you are probably putting into this thing over the last 4 months!) doing their very best to produce as many units as possible (why wouldn't they?),
--certainly no conspiracies going on. if fas had enough units they would sell them to anybody who would want one (no matter whether european or australian or russian or from whereever).
--fas waiting for parts and having no real information considering delivery dates from their suppliers,
--g66 being absolutely polite and helpful and telling what they know / what they can safely say (from a business tactis perspective) and cannot do much about their situation)
and how it probably is (considering all the contributions in the forum and elsewhere weighted with an estimated credibility score for the respective contributors)
(--fas probably providing slightly more units for the us web-shop for 2599 usd than for g66 and other overseas distributors (because presumably fas earn more from a unit sold for 2599 usd than from a unit going overseas, since they probably will have made delivery contracts BEFORE the frenzy at considerably lower prices per unit for the distributors),
--cliff still being unnerved by all the criticism and unwanted advice (which probably is partly due to the severe stress he is / was exposed to)
--fas providing any info they have concerning delivery prospects to their distributors (why wouldn't they?)
--g66 and the other distributors providing any positive info they have to their cutomers (why should they hold back that positive info?))
the only thing that is left to us in europe and other non-us countries from my perspective is
--wait
--PERHAPS take the freedom to POLITELY ask cliff in this forum to SOONER deliver MORE units overseas once the parts that are currently missing arrive
asking g66 or fas to also freely provide the "negative" info they possibly have is probably a bit naive from a business perspective.
nice greetings
dumbleg.
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