Well, another delay for my GEEK Out it seems since I got a black 450.
From the recent email:
"As you know, we shipped out 100 units on February 28. Many of you have asked why you didn't get yours if you were one of the first backers. This is a good and valid question. The reason you may not have received yours is because our first 100 units were "Super Duper Geeks" (Geek Out 1000) in silver only. If you ordered a regular Geek (Geek Out 450), a "Super Geek" (Geek Out 720), had a combination of Geek configurations, or ordered your Geek Out 1000 in a color other than silver, we couldn't deliver yours in that batch. I'm sorry I'm only telling you about this now. Our production manager, Rich, is tasked with the very difficult job of figuring out the best order to manufacture the units in, and determined (based on parts availability and vendor ability) to do it that way.
On Friday, we will be shipping out our next 200 units. These units will also be Geek Out 1000's. We'll be shipping them in black, silver, red, and blue and will start at the top of the list (the order in which the contributions were pledged). We still don't have our Kickstarter Green chassis here, as we've had to reject two batches because the anodized color turned out to be more of an olive drab. They didn't pass our QC. I hope they'll get it right and deliver them to us on Friday, but it will be too late to put them together and ship them out in this batch.
Now some bad news. I'm sorry to report that we're likely not going to make our March 28 deadline to ship out the remainder of the units. We may be able to get 300 or so out, but we can't be certain. I'll keep you informed in the next week about the progress and when we'll be able to get the rest out. Right now, we think there may be a two week delay on the final batch.
I know this is really bad news, and I hate delivering to you. But I want you to know that with all of the challenges that we've faced, our production team has shown incredible poise. Larry's team is working long, smart hours to address the issues as they come up, even hand soldering many of the units we're shipping to try to meet the deadlines that I've laid down. I've had the easiest task in the company: to show you the product and ask you to back us. The hard work is happening behind the scenes."