I want my money back

[MarkHaysHarris777]

Clearly the PineA64 SBC was unfairly over-hyped and was marketed by an over-zealous team who got lost in the board's clear potential but who also completely forgot about the reality of the board's clear inability to deliver on the 'reasonable' expectations that were unfairly set. 

The other side of the equation ( which is also fair in this discussion to point out ) is that some of the expectation on the consumers end was unrealistic too. I backed this board as a development board only with clear potential, and as a viable replacement ( and better replacedment frankly ) for the Raspberry PI;  it has been all of that and more!

So campers like myself are happy as clams , while folks who thought they were purchasing a fully developed polished commercial media appliance are very grumpy campers ( its to be expected, based on the way the board was marketed primarily ).

The second main piece causing much of the general complaint is that the shipping team did not really consider the infrustructure necessary to satisfy and 'real' shipping request from all of the backers who were hyped into supporting the venture;  in other words, the team unfairly hyped up a product to muster support (which they got), but did not provide ( in the background ) an efficient way to supply the damand, nor an ability to support the rewards.  ( that is a huge equation to miscalculate )

So the two serpents were unleashed !  1) shipping fiasco,  and 2) unsatisfied expectations.

That's just autopsy with minor, but fair, blame. The questions that should be asked at this point are how to move forward 'realistically' and how to set 'reasonable' expectations in the future?