They're not asking for your money only. You are not that special to them. Anyone can order, pay and take the risk.
Exactly, they want my and the rest of people money to make 500 lucky ones happy
I am wondering quite how you deduce that.
These guys aren't BFL, to whom 400 units a day actually means maybe a few a week on a good week.
How many places in line are you missing out on by blathering on the forum instead of paying for product?
Supposing it takes 500 units to fill a UPS truck, is BFL so totally full of BS that actually the entire idea anyone could churn out 400 units a day is craziness, an obvious lie, such utter bull that no one ever believed for a moment anyone, least of all BFL, could churn out so many so fast?
Or was it kind of a believable number, a yeah sure a well organised outfit should be able to pull that off number, a number, in other words, that maybe might even give some gleam of hope that maybe someone who really did know their stuff might be able to churn out 500 a day?
If so oh my gosh, how unfair to have to be on the next day's truck instead of the first day's truck!
If not well oh my gosh what are we talking here, like, a no truck day between each truck day? Or are you thinking even worse than that?
Meanwhile how many truckloads got bought with actual cash payments since I ordered a Saturn quite some number of hours ago?
Maybe every hour that passes is a whole 'nother day you'll have to wait for your unit(s)? Maybe two days? Three?
Just how bad exactly do you think the actual mass production-and-shipping run is going to be?
I admit I do not know what these concerns are grounded in exactly.
Did I miss a post where they explained they only get enough millimeters of a shared wafer each semester to produce 500 units in the fall, another 500 sometime in the winter, and maybe faster in the spring if they had been able to place enough pre-orders for wafer space by then or something?
-MarkM-