Is it too late to get into batch 1?
We can squeak you in if you can get your order in by tonight.
So people who don't do pre orders will not have opportunity to buy ?
I was putting off purchase of ANTs since I have heard of your product.
Truly disappointed that you didn't clarify that you will try to sell BATCH 1 on pre orders and have no plans to sell of the shelf product
Why did you do that ?
I think there might be some confusion here, which is probably our fault. I'm not sure on Swimmer's case, but we have two types of customers. One is buying retail boards; the other is getting us to mount their chips (purchased or settlement) onto boards. The latter has a hard deadline on when they can get chips to us, while the former more subject to us being out of stock.
We obviously only have a limited stock of boards that we'll be making in any one batch and so it's possible that they could all sell out prior to shipping, but that hasn't happened yet. Preorders are better for us and lets us expand the batch size, but there aren't any plans to do only preorders. Ideally we'd like to move to more continuous production, but that will be a little down the road after more growth.
There should be some stock get added once the batch is done though. We're being conservative in our yield estimates, so we'll probably find we have more boards to sell once we get get through the batch see what the actual numbers are.