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Wait...we're at the back of the line?!zslane wrote: I believe 7bit already said that SP has the funds to begin production of phase 2, but that other group buys have come in and taken production slots in the queue while SP was waiting for those funds, and now phase 2 is at the end of a line of unspecified length.
Honestly, 7bit, I don't think your microphone is on...
No one has said this officially. As always, we've just got to wait and see. Jukebox has left SP recently so not sure if they'll pop phase 2 back in before Valentine. The status page hasn't had a decent update for ages so it's hard to know.HorrorStorm wrote:Wait...we're at the back of the line?!zslane wrote: I believe 7bit already said that SP has the funds to begin production of phase 2, but that other group buys have come in and taken production slots in the queue while SP was waiting for those funds, and now phase 2 is at the end of a line of unspecified length.
Honestly, 7bit, I don't think your microphone is on...
Nothing has changed since 7bit wrote the above. How do we know? Because if anything had changed (with respect to phase 2), he would have said something. When it comes to a 7bit group buy, no news is definitely not good news.
If we're going to assume things from what 7bit says, he said "some other group buy" which would suggest Phase 2 would go in after whatever GB they were working on at the time (as opposed to "some other group buys".) I'm not saying it's the case, but anything we say is pure conjecture.
I'm not sure what this means. Chinese vendors will often jump on board with a US-based group buy, but this GB, the blue is already done ("done") - that's phase 1; one of the grays is phase 2, and white is definitely phase 2, but other than being another GB on SP's schedule, I'm not sure why they'd be related.kingnestea wrote: There was a GB in China with exactly the same colors as 7bit's R6 phase 2 (White/Grey/Blue) about 2 months ago, production slot was told in Jan. 2017, I would put those orders in production together with 7bit's if I was SP, so let's say end of Jan. 2017 is probably a ship date from SP to 7bit for phase 2.
What you are talking about is proxies, not vendors, yes, there are often proxies organizing sub-GBs for US-based GBs, but what I was talking about is a independent group buy organized in China which has nothing to do with 7bit's group buy except the color codes are the same. Well, blue was in phase 1, but there are still white and gray which can be merged with 7bit's order and I assume SP would do so.c2lknt wrote:I'm not sure what this means. Chinese vendors will often jump on board with a US-based group buy, but this GB, the blue is already done ("done") - that's phase 1; one of the grays is phase 2, and white is definitely phase 2, but other than being another GB on SP's schedule, I'm not sure why they'd be related.kingnestea wrote: There was a GB in China with exactly the same colors as 7bit's R6 phase 2 (White/Grey/Blue) about 2 months ago, production slot was told in Jan. 2017, I would put those orders in production together with 7bit's if I was SP, so let's say end of Jan. 2017 is probably a ship date from SP to 7bit for phase 2.
Anyway, things are different in China - they're a little more comfortable playing fast and loose with dates. It's unlikely they had any better information than anyone ever does on a SP group buy. (Except maybe Massdrop, because they're professionals.)
Check the attachment for the render of that group buy, I would say that this is basically 7bit's round 6.zslane wrote: Well, a lot depends on what keys are being produced, not just the colors. 7bit's keys have very different legends on many of the blue and gray phase 1 keys, which means a completely different setup on the machines. If the only thing that is essentially the same is the shell color, that's probably not enough to "combine" them in production (whatever that means...I doubt SP combines manufacturing between different customers like that; too many opportunities for errors).