neiru37You missed to point a little. The delivery time has not changed what so ever. They have just added another delivery date for batch nr. 2. And I think they lost a lot of buyers for this drop by stopping international shipping. But the 2nd batch made it possible for more people to get the headphones. I hope I might too.
UrokozI'm pretty sure we could have gotten a few days off of the waiting time if the drop had ended at the 2000 mark a few days ago instead of 4 days from now.
neiru37Unless I have accidentally skipped a couple comments I have read every comment up to yours, and there are a couple things wrong with it.
1. Massdrop has already said that the drop ending sooner will not get us the headphones sooner. If anything having a second batch get added means that people will get headphones sooner since I am pretty sure the second batch is going to get here sooner than it was originally planned for due to the demand for the first. Massdrop made a comment about something regarding that but I can't remember where or what exactly was said.
2. Massdrop's wording on exactly when international shipping was canceled is slightly ambiguous, but IIRC from the comments at the time international shipping was canceled at about the time of them posting the update saying that going forward they would be unable to ship internationally. I assume that the confusion arose because they mentioned that in the same update saying that they were adding two thousand more units to this drop. But people were unable to ship internationally before it hit 2000. It was at about 1800 <end IIRC>. It is possible that if Massdrop hadn't made contact with AKG to increase the order number that AKG wouldn't have told them to cancel shipping, but without Massdrop commenting there is no way of knowing (and even then they might not know). Being told to cancel international shipping could have been a completely separate conversation that just happened at a similar time.
According to the graph that was posted earlier, a large majority of the purchasers were in the United states. Unless people in the US decided to boycott the drop because of the international shipping issues, I don't think it had a large enough effect to account for the decrease in purchasing speed that has occurred. I think it might be partly because a much larger than usual portion of people who wanted it joined sooner instead of taking the time to consider it due to the limited nature of the drop, and the very high starting speed because of people wanting to be in the first 250 and the drop having been announced on head-fi in advance. There have been a lot of people canceling, but I don't know the usual rate for that to know if it is larger on this drop. If it is larger that could be because people who were buying it without taking the time to consider it due to reasons above changed there minds, which backs up the previous conjectures. A larger portion of people buying it immediately would mean that fewer people would be left towards the end of the drop. A decrease in the number of people who want the headphones and aren't in the drop, combined with the doubling of quantity could have reduced the sense of urgency to join and made people take time to consider it. That is entirely conjecture and I'm not an economist but I believe that is the cause.
To all of you people complaining about international shipping being canceled:
For those of you blaming Massdrop for canceling it, it isn't their fault. It is due to exclusive
distribution rights with distributors outside the US. Sadly that is common.
For those of you saying that Massdrop should have gotten everything straight with AKG so
that they would have known from the beginning that they couldn't ship internationally, which
is better: having to cancel international shipping partway through, or not shipping
internationally to anyone at all. That may be due to either you thinking that they are not
going to fulfill international order that were already placed (they have already said that they
will be fulfilling them) or me thinking that you were saying they should have cancelled it from
the beginning when you meant that they should have talked it over with AKG to be able to ship
internationally for the whole drop (which I don't think would have been possible. If they had
tried to I suspect it would have resulted in no international shipping at all. It seems to me like
AKG never told Massdrop they couldn't ship internationally and Massdrop assumed that they
could, but I am just guessing and could be completely wrong).
EDIT: I formatted the last section so neatly and in the post it didn't show up :(
SuperBobKingThank you for that!
So can we let go of this now? I am keeping an eye on the discussion in case there are any updates and getting very tired of the entries on this subject.
Boeman1995Sorry if it came out as being ignorant. To be clear, I joined this drop within the first 30 mins it opened and have been reading updates since. My comments were not really a rant as I don't have any reason to since I got in even before international shipping was cancelled. They were more of a "what if" observation.
MarkLol at least I got the no international shipping part right, so at least I'm 1% correct.
Fine I'll remove my comment. It's getting too much flame already.