Ngl it is a bit of a bummer to see some people having their boards for a couple months while others haven’t even begun manufacturing but it is what it is I guess.
Have the purple started to go out?
Not yet! Manufacturing set up, waiting on materials, labour still only slowly reopening/restarting from Chinese New Year. When shipping starts up again, we'll provide an update on geekhack.
I think at this point you need to stop calling these kinds of posts “updates”. Actually nothing is better than this
It may not be what you want to hear, but ZongZiWang and I just report what jacky tells us, which sometimes, is not very detailed. Obviously hearing about delays is frustrating and annoying, but these are the updates we receive from jacky who works on his gbs full time and doesn't always have time to be online, though we have asked for more consistent updates in the past. We'd rather not go into full radio silence, so we share all the updates we are given (either word-for-word, or translated), even if they're not as informational as they could be - especially with geekhack's update policy. As everyone is familiar with, or becomes familiar with as soon as they have a keyboard gb stretch into February, Chinese New Year always has a tendency to shut down everything for the entire month, and then it can take a bit for everything to be back up and operational.
Copied and pasted from an announcement made on the discord:
tl;dr: Shipping will be DELAYED without a super concrete timeline, address change form will be still opened until further notice.
Now here is why it's delayed and also what happened for the past two weeks since the shipping supposed to start:
- For the PC case, during QC (quality control), Jacky found certain cases had stripped screw holes and they are on the way back to be redone (not only for the screw hole, but also re-sanding the case after the screw hole re-worked)
- For the e-beige and e-white cases, during QC, Jacky found not small amount of internal defects, and they are back to e-coating again. They looked okay before e-coating, possibly because the surface being sanded or not easily to discover these defect spots until they are coated.
- For anodized cases, they are not fully done at beginning of December (that's why they are down in the original shipping list), some finished products did not have the perfect quality that Jacky expected and currently the factory is waiting for new material for the anodization process so it's on pause at the moment.
We will update once we have more information regarding any batch of the cases, and hopefully next update is good news and shipping starts. And I will try to nudge Jacky to provide update at least every two weeks so everyone could get the latest status since it's already delayed.
Hopefully this update gave the best transparency for this Group Buy and thanks for everyone's patience and understanding!
(Personally I'd wish to get a great QC'ed product than a defect one, so I'm really glad Jacky took the time to make sure the final finish of Piggy passing the high standard QC, but I also understood everyone's expecting to get the Piggy before Christmas and it's not likely to happen now
This was the last concrete update we got on what was left to do, as the update we got from jacky this week was just that the factories were still not fully operational following Chinese New Year. Yes, it is frustrating and a huge bummer to see some people get their boards while you have to wait even more months, but that's just how it is sometimes. There is quite a lot that needs to be redone, it's not fun to have to wait so long but jacky is committed to giving people quality boards so if he feels like some of them are not up to his standard, we need to respect his decision. We do appreciate people's patience when it comes to updates and dealing with manufacturing or shipping delays. We don't enjoy having to give bad news, but we want to keep people informed to the best of our ability, based on the info that we are given.
