Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
Remember, companies like Massdrop are on-line marketers looking to make money, nothing more. Their "communities" facade is there for the sole purpose of sucking in potential sales.
As we started to do more collaborations and developing our own products, we found the group-buy model to be limiting. Because of that, we're offering these "daily drops" on our most popular products that are already in our warehouse ready to ship. We were running one drop per week, and folks that bought it on Monday had to wait until the drop would close (7 days) before we'd start processing the orders. This makes sense for group-buys, not so much for products that are already in inventory.
So instead of making everyone wait a week, we started closing the drops every day, and every day sending our warehouse the orders to prepare for shipment.
Because these drops are closing every day, the timer always shows "x hours left", which is correct. I can see how this would be perceived as trickery, but it's a by-product of using systems designed for a different style of selling things.
Will it always be this way? Probably not. Daily drops have been a big success (people like to get their stuff sooner? what a shock) and our product and engineering teams are working on a solution to support this kind of sales along side our standard drops.
I don't know how your systems are configured, nor your resources for system design, but I think that having a special section with Massdrop audiofile products without the timer is really quite straightforward. Alternatively, since you already have filters for "newest","recommended" and "ending soon" just add another filter "never ending". As an aside, your daily processing of orders for these "never ending"drops must surely be appreciated.
Thank you again for your detailed answer. And thank you to others who participated in this thread.
But note also I raised the issue about polls that go nowhere as well (check the two year old Shure SE846 poll). That is for another discussion.