Anyone here in both the Modern M0110 and Lumina group buy? I am one of them and it is starting to look like a competition.
Yep, same boat here too!
Not sure about M0110 but this is looking more and more like an outright scam.
I still don't think it's a scam, but it is a failed gb that won't come to fruition due to poor planning
Maybe you're not in the Discord server.
Currently rubbermilitia (who was just supposed to be doing communication and wrap-up work) seems to be getting the run-around by Tesletron, who still has sole control over the finances and manufacturer contact information.
This was not just poor planning (by someone who had personal connections with experienced designers/vendors and some experience of their own manufacturing). If we are to believe the story we are told about a factory ghosting, a lost shipment by another factory, then that factory ghosting on what should have been a replacement shipment, we would need to be extraordinarily unlucky.
Yet if you do some back-of-the-envelope math there should
still be enough money to finish the GB, although maybe it's getting down to the wire.
What's more likely at this point is that Tesletron spent GB money on things other than the GB and now plans to delay it forever, or had planned to run other GBs/one-offs/commissions in order to make up the deficit until things started falling apart and they were called out on Reddit.
Recall that the first delays occurred right after the 180 day Paypal window closed, among many other unfortunate coincidences.
I'm not saying this is definitely what happened, but that's starting to look like the most logical explanation.