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tinkertamper | 4 years ago

Let me put it this way, I was backer #816. They currently have 37,987 backers. They raised $4,882,784 during a global pandemic. I think I’m not off base when I said “If you can get one.”

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cstrat|4 years ago

No one has one - none have shipped. Your backer position is irrelevant right now. If they had released a batch of 2000 and you missed out, yes I'd be upset. They are still fine tuning their tooling to mass produce. It's way behind schedule, but with everything on kickstarter - allow for 2x the time to avoid disappointment.

Geezus_42|4 years ago

They also let you pick which batch yours would come from.

lmm|4 years ago

We shouldn't normalize this stuff.

tomc1985|4 years ago

They're not out yet. Have you ever used Kickstarter before??

You're phrasing this like they're GPUs. But those GPUs have general availability, at least on paper. There are no people, other than the Flipper devs, their friends, and perhaps selected reviewers, who have one of these in their hands to play with. It has not hit 1.0 yet.

mynameisvlad|4 years ago

Just because they raised 4 million dollars doesn't mean they are immune to a global supply chain shortage.

It's only 5 months late, it's like you've never backed a Kickstarter before.

sschueller|4 years ago

They were lucky and had the orders for the chip in before the shortage. If they didn't the delay would be a lot greater than 5 months.

tinkertamper|4 years ago

Ok, it’s clear where you stand. I’m not here to be negative, only to share with folks interested in the product that they are significantly back logged. Hopefully everyone knows what the means in a Kickstarter context. Their marketing is great, the jury is still out on their actual product.