The clock has struck midnight in Germany and thus ending April 1st for myself. With much regret I must inform you that this was indeed an Aprils fools joke. However it was not for nothing! While some will probably be upset by this announcement, there is also a lot of positive that has come from this thread. The amount of responses vastly exceeded my expectations, GeekHack saw a 400%+ increases in user registrations for today. With over 800 posts, of which I estimate are about 90% "orders" placed, I have now an astonishing amount of data provided by all of you that I can use to further fine tune the actual group buy that is still on track.
I am very sorry if I got your hopes up too much, this especially goes for the Asian crowd as it appears April fools day is not really a thing there so we see a lot of first time posters from Korea and such that genuinely believed this to be a real group buy. It actually upsets me a little myself that it isn't, because after seeing how this played out over the last 20ish hours, I really wish I could offer this type of ordering system today, and sorting the orders sounds like a fun project for my downtime. Maybe another time?
So with that said, I hope I didn't upset anyone too much, it was a very harmless joke that didn't cost any individual too much time or resources. I will continue my efforts to delivering a great 2nd version of this set that is due to ACTUALLY HAPPEN in a few months on Massdrop. The interest check over here:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=99174.0 will continue as before while this thread will be closed. I hope moderates will allow it to remain visible to the public for some more time, while I also gather the invaluable data that I wish to analyze and present in the IC later this week. Hopefully this data can settle some debates such as Git vs Regular mods
Thank you everyone for participating, especially to the GH mod team for allowing me to run this on the GB forums. I hope you have a great week!