I don’t understand this business model, for a big factory like EVE does he not have enough money to hire a project manager? It’s a per project quote, it’s not like 3-4 months is the standard quote for everything. GB runners ask for timeline quote per groupbuy. Should EVE estimate the quote accordingly every time with consideration to his on-going projects?
Moon, Mira, Evil-80, all delays because “too many projects” at the moment. The way this hobby treats that as an acceptable excuse is beyond my comprehension. It’s rude to the on-going customers and future customers
While I did not participate in the Evil 80 GB, I did participate in the Equal Mountain GB, it appears EVE prides himself/themselves on the work done, I don't think I have seen any poorly manufactured boards posted that have come from EVE. For me it's worth the wait, even if the timeline is skewed due to too many projects or similar, if the work is exceptional can you really complain?
This does not have anything to do with the quality of work. I partook in a lot of delayed GBs due to faulty parts (LZ-CLS, E1-V8,...). I am okay with delayed to fix corrections, but there is no correction to fix here, it is just EVE greedily takes on too much what he could not handle. He himself estimated the amount of time without factoring in his maximum capacity. It's like going to a restaurant that can handle 100 customers, but the owner is greedy. So at high traffic hours, the owner put out more tables and scrams more customers. Eventually he'll overwhelming the staffs and the service and food quality would go down. Know your capability
If EVE keeps doing this there will be a breaking point down the road. And when something breaks, not only you, as a customer, will have to wait for over-capacity, now there is more delay for fixes.
Sorry to bust your bubbles but this happened many times before in this hobbies. SA Godspeed, massive amount of China proxy orders are non-fulfilled, plus massive delays. Phantom GB 4 years ago on here, whitefiredragon deleted his account and ran away, overwhelmed with too many orders. Seth, 1 man gb runner and keyboard service, classified as a scammed for not fulfilling 2 on-going GBs. The last time we heard from Seth he auctioned off a Kmac on ebay that was supposedly commissioned to assemble by fellow GH member.
The point is I dont care if EVE estimated 3 months timeline, 6 months or even 1 year. You have to stick to that timeline if there's no ****ups, if there is ****ups, post pictures and I will wait. But you cant give me a timeline, and tell me it's going to be delay because whie manurfacting my order, he takes on more orders. Going back to that restauraunt example, it's rude to tell me I only need wait for 20mins for a table but it turns out to be an hour wait.
