My delivery date has been delayed to April 3 from March 16.
I guess everyone's delivery date is going to be delayed, because it looks like they are modifying one of their molds.
On the order status page, there is a list of the steps they are intending to execute. This includes "Building TextBlade", "QA at the factory", "QA in California" and some other steps.
"Building TextBlade" has suddenly be broken into a bunch of new items, so the task list now looks like this:
- Received Order (jan 14)
- Processed Order (jan 14)
- Charged credit card (jan 14)
- Emailed confirmation (jan 14)
- Started build of TextBlade order (feb 16)
- Completed NanoCharger (feb 17)
- Completed NanoStand (feb 19)
- Completed KeyBlade PCB (feb 20)
- Completed SpaceBlade PCB (feb 23)
- Completed SpaceBlade base (feb 26)
- Started Butterfly mold upgrade (march 1)
- Completed KeyBlade base (march 3)
- Butterfly mold upgrade in progress (march 6) <--- they are currently working on this
- Validate upgraded Butterfly (est march 14)
- Complete final assembly (est march 21)
- QA TextBlade in factory (est march 22)
- QA TextBlade in California (est march 28)
- Pack order in California (est apr 3)
- Ship via FedEx priority (est apr 3)
In the process, the shipping date has slipped by more than 2 weeks...
Let me guess... They have realized they had a design error on the case's plastic mold, or maybe the factory has made a mistake and some hole in the PCB is not where it should be, so they have decided to throw away the first molded cases and to design a new one because that's less expensive than throwing away the defective PCBs? OK, that's just speculation.