Hey everyone, thanks for being so patient! I've got a bunch of updates for everyone.
1) This has been a big undertaking for us; we've partitioned off a whole area of our warehouse and set it up just for setting up and packing these boxes. Really looking forward to firing up the fulfillment lines! (See photos in the comments section)
2) We placed over 50 purchase-orders with our vendors in the past 3 weeks and the last couple products are still arriving/being unpacked. We're starting fulfillment now, with the first boxes hopefully going out on 7/23. We're doing our best to ship based on the sequence that the orders were received.
3) As expected, some of our vendors are out of stock(or have discontinued) some of their product availability. I've attached a list of substitutions below.
4) We've decided to upgrade everyone's shipping from Fedex Smartpost to UPS Ground, so you should see delivery 1-2 days quicker than typical orders from Drop.
5) Currently we're hoping to have all of the boxes out by the end of the week (fingers crossed). We'll know more about our pacing once we get the first 100 or so boxes packed up and out the door.
6) When you get your box, please leave a review with a photo, we'll be giving away extra bounty boxes to reviewers randomly (more details to follow)
7) The two $5000 Mega boxes will be going out next week and hopefully we can share their unboxings here too!
Substitutions:
AData SD600 265GB SSD -> AData SD700 265GB SSD
Mionix Naos QG -> Mionix Castor
Pelikan M200 Pen -> Lamy Accent Fountain Pen (Briarwood and Lacquer Finishes)
Juiced Systems USB 3.0 Hubs -> Juiced System Decahub
KevinVery exciting update and glad to see the clarity about the substitutions. They seem to be upgrades so it looks nice to me. Hope my box ships out today.
KevinApparently I lied and packing the boxes was done today; with tracking numbers tomorrow (for most or all boxes- I’m told.....) another update tomorrow.
stuey138They all do SEEM to be upgrades, don't they - except the mouse. A SIGNIFICANT downgrade looking at the spec sheets for each (the company has them both listed at the same price, but it is obvious on sites like Amazon that the top of the line was replaced with the middle). I unfortunately was a victim of this substitution, and you can read more about it in my product review post.