This. The January anticipated ship date of Xbox units was BS because they knew they hadn’t even been certified by MSFT yet and now state they have no idea when this will happen. Claiming a January ship date was done to encourage preorders and generate capital pure and simple. All the people that preordered are essentially giving an interest free loan to a company for however long it takes to actually ship the units.
It amazes me how many sheep are out there that are ok with this practice and it only encourages this behavior in the future. I expect a discount for a preorder to loan my money to a company for an extended period of time (unknown now according to Audeze’s post). It’s the unscrupulous nature that needs to be called out. It has nothing to do with being impatient. If they were forthright in stating we don’t know when these units will ship in 2023, very few people would have preordered. An alternate approach would have been to say we have no idea when these units will ship in 2023, but if you preorder we are giving a 15% discount (or whatever is still profitable to them but still encourages preorder knowing there is an unknown ship date) which many people would have been good with. But they wanted their cake and to eat it too knowing that once people order they aren’t as likely to cancel even once consumers get the real information about shipping and now we also have everyones money.
