It's June 2nd....
And I'd like to know if orders are already being processed, at least for the people who bought the first edition, and if the pre-order status has been updated for anyone in the first batch.
RE: It's June 2nd....
No ETA on when the Founder's Edition will ship. All I can say is "soon" and by tomorrow we will be one day closer to the shipping date.
RE: It's June 2nd....
My toxic trait is expecting "shipped" status to appear on 0:01AM, June 1st. But I know that these things take time, so it's more likely to be closer to 10th or 15th, I guess...
RE: It's June 2nd....
you are mutating into a philosopher 😀
... and by tomorrow we will be one day closer to the shipping date.
RE: It's June 2nd....
And I'd like to know if orders are already being processed, at least for the people who bought the first edition, and if the pre-order status has been updated for anyone in the first batch.
TLDR - Based on your question you seem to be referring to the pre-orders directly from Prusa? If so, there's no chance Prusa will ship anything in the next 3-4 weeks. Maybe they'll get some units out the door by the very end of the month but it'll likely be a slow roll-out. This is typical enough when pre-ordering from Prusa, so no need to panic, but a good thing to know when you're ordering from them. There are also some other factors slowing things down which I get into more below.
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The first thing to be aware of if you are new to Prusa Pre-Orders, is they are notoriously known not to ship until the very last day of their target ship window. So don't expect anything to leave a warehouse until at least the last day of that commitment, in this case June 30th. There is a common belief also that Prusa likely only ship out a handful of units to say they met that target 🤣, but that's likely just cynicism from people being salty from waiting!
The other thing to note, although not widely shared, the people that ordered the founders edition directly from Bondtech are still waiting for theirs to ship. There was an issue identified by Bondtech which seemingly has resulted in some rework and testing of the printhead. They informed the founders edition purchasers directly over email 2-3 weeks back but they are not committing to when it will be ready to ship. The position from Bondtech is they will only ship once the product is at a standard they are happy with. Which is good for all of us as consumer but painful to have to wait. Bondtech have noted that their first priority when ready is ensure all founders edition customers, which pre-ordered last November, have their orders shipped before they provide units directly to Prusa.
All this does make the probability of a delay on Prusa end high but not definite. While there are 4 weeks left in June, based on that I would expect a slow roll-out. I know from other discussion over discord Prusa are holding off any formal comms until they are sure it'll impact their release timelines.