GT production update January 14/ 2022
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@notsure i thought i saw someone say that it actually does say it's a preorder somewhere, but i haven't looked myself. it's the same way as it was with the original Pint.
Sage OG Pint (Battleborn Floater)
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@franko Looking up preorder doesn't bring up results outside the 3rd parties that planned to sell them upon arrival.
Re-watched the and they don't ever say preorder either, only referring to them releasing it later (and to order early to be riding one sooner, foreshadowing much). That being said it essentially was one regardless if they said or not.
Anyone ordering now can expect their board sometime in 6 months. Reddit user AccidentProne76 just did and their board is estimated for July D: I feel bad for anyone that sold their board in preparation for the GT and now has none for a bit longer. Second hand XR prices might see a nice bump from this though.
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@lia said in GT production update January 14/ 2022:
I feel bad for anyone that sold their board in preparation for the GT and now has none for a bit longer.
yeah thats rough! but im hard on FM anyways. im not sure how many they've sold in total but it's probably 100 million in revenue by now. at some point they can't use the whole "we're a small company with thin margins" to rationalize some of their behaviors. its not a lemonade stand.
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@lia said in GT production update January 14/ 2022:
Re-watched the uncharted live event and they don't ever say preorder either, only referring to them releasing it later (and to order early to be riding one sooner, foreshadowing much). That being said it essentially was one regardless if they said or not.
well, people who weren't around or paying attention back when the Pint rolled out can't be faulted, i guess, but it's exactly the same way they rolled out the Pint. I for one am older and wiser now, that's for sure. I do feel bad for people who sold older models to help fund a GT purchase, but in the long run i think it's better to wait and have something that works as advertised. it's a non-fun lesson in patience, i guess.
Sage OG Pint (Battleborn Floater)
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@franko said in GT production update January 14/ 2022:
it's a non-fun lesson in patience, i guess.
i don't think ever had a fun lesson in patience lol.
XR's got what plants crave!
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@notsure fair, but some lessons in patience are more tolerable.
Sage OG Pint (Battleborn Floater)
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@franko but i wanna learn it now!
XR's got what plants crave!
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@notsure said in GT production update January 14/ 2022:
but i wanna learn it now!
LOL! I soooo get that.
ProTip: Never, never, never pray for patience.
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A friend found this website and I decided to look up Future Motion. I don't know how up-to-date it is, but maybe it will give us an idea of if supply chain issues are really the cause of the delay and when those might resolve. Mostly, it is just a cool website. It even notes what kinds of components (e.g. aluminum rails, etc.) were in the shipments and where they come from. Remember that Onewheels are assembled in the U.S.; many of the parts are manufactured in China or Taiwan.
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@biell Looking at the parts below the main graph and the timelines you can estimate roughly what they were working on at the time which is cool. Thanks for sharing~
Crazy how much things escalated mid 2019, Pint really did some numbers for FM.
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@biell that was interesting, thanks for diggin that up!
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@lia said in GT production update January 14/ 2022:
Crazy how much things escalated mid 2019, Pint really did some numbers for FM.
so interesting! i bet my Pint parts were part of either the May or June shipments, because i received it in mid- to late- July.
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@horseplay Great detective work!
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@biell Can I share this info?
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@lemur Sure, it is a public website. I only just found out that it existed today, but it must be reporting public data.
I wanted to see how up-to-date the data on the site was, so I looked up Samsung Electronics Amercia. My fear was that they were working off 6 month old data. However, Samsung have shipments every month up until last month. So, the site only appears to lag by a month. That means it has been a while since FM has received a shipment of parts.
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FM has confirmed delays are due to the supply chain, not that we didn't figure it out but nice to have it confirmed.
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@lia at least they ordered the parts.
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So, Import Yeti has loaded the 1/31/2022 data and there are still no shipping imports to Future Motion since April of last year. So, if it really is a supply chain issue, I am starting to worry about my March 1st ship date. Here's to hoping they are either getting stuff soon, or they were lying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@biell According to Import Yeti their data can be delayed by 2 months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxcjPnXKawo&t=115s (1:55 they mention that)FM may have even hid their data by going under another name for shipping. That may explain why nothing since April has shown up since I can't imagine they kept up with releases and PintX development stockpiling parts for a year.
Bit crafty of them if that's what they did, wonder if that's when they started the PintX and GT development and didn't want anyone figuring it out somehow?
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@lia said in GT production update January 14/ 2022:
Bit crafty of them if that's what they did, wonder if that's when they started the PintX and GT development and didn't want anyone figuring it out somehow?
lol seems needlessly clandestine. i still think that preorder money was to buy the parts in the first place.
