Shipping Progress

[MrWizerd]

So, knowing that there are shipping delays, knowing that the store was not shipping until at LEAST late May, probably not till June, Knowing that there would be hundreds of orders on the store that would have to be sent out, and NOT knowing what order Anything from the store was going to ship out you proceeded to tell your client to buy the Pine on a time critical project?!? Sir, I have heard a lot of smart things, and a ton of not so smart things, can you guess what category this falls into?

The pine is a great board but it is VERY new, it still is not six months passed the kickstarter campaign and there almost finished fulfilling there kickstarter rewards. That by itself is amazing, but the product does not have the community that pi has and does not have the infrastructure that the pi has. We all hope it will get there as this SBC is by in large a better board than a lot of the others on the market but it is still very much developing. I am not here to tell you how to run your business, but honestly the big red warning that shipping wont happen until possibly the end of this month did not give you a moment of doubt? If a client of mine said, hey I want to build XYZ by June at the latest, I would NOT have told them to buy a Pine, because the shipping dates are not due to start until June and if the kickstarter campaign has any bearing on how many orders the store has, they will be playing catch-up on the stores shipments as well. So.... I think you can guess what side of the line that decision falls on... Hopefully the store orders start shipping soon, and I wish you well on your ventures, but making this company your "hobby" will get you nothing but a bunch of people looking at you funny because you were given plenty of warning about order fulfillment times.

Also, so you know, I have put in orders to the store on the first of May then again on the first of June, do I check regularly to see if they are fulfilled, sure, but I don't expect to see them fulfilled till next month at the earliest, and even then they are not for any time critical project because that would be madness.