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Anyway, the estimated ship date is March 25, the description says. Given the great number of participants in the drop and the general experience from previous drops, there might be a delay and further waiting beyond that date (that's my assumption).
Ps massdrop is a really cool service that I'll be using again.
But I do not agree with you on the first time user part . I was a first time user recently, it is not that long ago that I joined massdrop. Indeed, at first it struck me as unusual (to say the least) for a product to take so much time to get to me, because I was not used to that. But I knew what I had gotten into. So, for me, the "I am trying this out for the first time" is no excuse. The whole process is explained in the faq. And it says in the description how long it takes to ship. Don't want to wait? Don't join.
Oh and all of this isn't like I regret buying from massdrop. It really is a great service to use. I'm just giving my two cents on not being so hostile to new users.
I like Massdrop and I'm just trying to offer constructive criticism to see it improve.
I'm not trying to troll but rather offer what I feel is constructive criticism, especially for a concept I like a lot. I mean the whole vote for what we drop and let our collective buying power reduce the cost for a particular product is awesome. Which is why I want to see Massdrop get more... massive. :)
The bigger they get the better the deals will get.
Though. one was shipped USPS and the other UPS, but the UPS box was handed off the USPS for the last leg. Having shipped and received thousands of packages myself it would probably be cheaper to just ship them as one package. The UPS package was also cheaper for a larger box. Heck, there was enough room to fit both items in one box (and not need as much bubble wrap).
Something like the modmic could have been even cheaper if it was shipped right from Antlion's warehouse. We all pool our money, Massdrop keeps its cut for organizing the group buy (as the POS), and Antlion ships it. I checked before and the shipping price on Antlion ($4.73) was compatible to massdrop ($5). Massdrop and Antlion could both make the same $, we save a couple $ and a few days shipping time. Even Antlion could have just done a 20% off sale for "x" number of units.
Breaking to smaller packages makes sense as we will then just receive our packages separately without paying ridiculous taxes.