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Thinkgeek has not discontinued anything quit trying to stir the post with unfounded comments.

If anyone else would like to confirm what I said about ThinkGeek, they can go to their web site and they can do a live chat and ask the same questions I did and I will guarantee you will get the same answer. My comments are not unfounded. They are from ThinkGeek.

Edit: I also asked if they could look into the reasons why it was being discontinued and they said they would send that on to corporate and to expect an email from them. When I get the email, I would be more than happy to share it with everyone here and if they were mistaken then that is great!

It's not fair to say my comments are unfounded, especially coming from you. The last time we had this same conversation(http://boards.dingoonity.org/gcw-general/gcw-zero-out-of-stock/msg124679/#msg124679), you told us retailers should have stock May 10th. Instead of trying to point the blame on me, you could explain what happened and what is going on so everyone knows why there was such a big delay.

Are there any other retailers expecting to receive stock?

Quote from: Yertle on July 15, 2015, 05:50:05 pm

It's not fair to say my comments are unfounded, especially coming from you. The last time we had this same conversation(http://boards.dingoonity.org/gcw-general/gcw-zero-out-of-stock/msg124679/#msg124679), you told us retailers should have stock May 10th. Instead of trying to point the blame on me, you could explain what happened and what is going on so everyone knows why there was such a big delay.

You're not entitled to any answers, the only people entitled to the answers here are the resellers, and that's their business, not something for a bulletin board. Justin is a small-time player in the scene, shit will happen, delays will happen. Anyone thinking otherwise is delusional.

Anyways, why are you looking for these 'loose ends' so hard?

I completely understand that we don't need details but for him to say my comments are unfounded is not true and not fair because they are founded. Whether or not ThinkGeek told me incorrect information is not my fault. Anyone can ask that same question and I bet they will get the same answer. I didn't make it up. Maybe GCW should have a talk with ThinkGeek and tell them his concerns with them reporting that the GCW Zero will not be stocked instead of attacking me and making it seem like I am the one at fault.

Looking for loose ends? Do you care when more retail units will be released? I'm not the only one wondering. After seeing what is happening with Evil Dragon's units, do you really have to wonder why I am looking for any and all information? GCW has more loose ends than a bowl of spaghetti.

If GCW wants to come out of hiding and talk about release dates, that would be great and put a lot of questions at rest.

Why am I the only one willing to ask ThinkGeek why they changed their ETA date from August 5th to NO ETA? This isn't the first time that this has happened with ThinkGeek and we all know the issues that GCW has with giving false information to other retailers.

That's funny. Last I heard the retailers weren't getting any answers either.

Hey, ED, did you ever get the receipt for the a wire transfer that was sent? Or have you received the funds yet?

If you guys have nothing to hide, then why do you care so much when the community starts to wonder when new units are coming in? Most companies are proud to see people getting excited for news that their product is available again. And if the gloom and doom speculations are wrong, then don't come to your main user forum and tell them it's none of their business, prove them wrong by actually delivering. Questions about new stock are completely valid because when a company can't produce new units (or send to retailers after they paid for them) then that's usually an indication of deeper problems we're not seeing or that it's... y'know... dead.

@pardue

    I don't have an issue of customers wanting to know when stock will be coming in. I do have an issue with something that has been resolved once before and corrected only to have it pop up again because mis-information was given. As I said I have no clue how information from corporate gets from ThinkGeek Corp to customer service but the information is incorrect and the shipment for August will be met and units will be in stock.

In short yes and in August 2015

@gcw

As I understand it, there's at least one user here who is looking to buy a unit as a gift but can't find a retailer or a reliable restocking date. That's probably an issue. I don't have enough info to know what the other issue "that has been resolved" is that you're describing but GCW's problems don't end with ThinkGeek.

The fact of the matter is that the most reliable information does not come from GCW, it comes from outside sources that deal with GCW. That's why people are willing to believe sources like ThinkGeek, PureWicked.AU, EvilDragon and GameSeek. What they say isn't good news but then again- news is what somebody does not want you to print. The wrong reaction is to suppress what these people say instead of living up to your agreements and not getting caught in a situation like that. As I've said before- if you don't like it then prove us wrong, you are in a position to do that. But so far those sources have held up and they paint a different picture than what we're led to believe. I'll believe it when I see it, I've always said that.

Are these newly manufactured units? I for one wouldn't mind buying new ones just to have the sticky button thing solved by the design process as opposed to my hack. With my strange reboot issue that appears to be hardware related, I may need a new unit anyway

Is there any hardware revision coming down the pipeline? I wish I knew more about the future of this device, it seems to be best available. Android sucks. Sure those devices may be powerful, I have an NVidia Shield that just gathers dust because the UI experience and emulators suck.

I had asked GCW a couple months ago if the newly manufactured units were going to have any changes made to the buttons so they were less sticky and he replied with no. He said they had a new design for buttons and they were testing them out but they wouldn't be installed in these retail units.