NCASE M1 V6 info
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5:03 GMT keyed in 1 digit of my card wrongly, and retyped again at 5:04 GMT... just in time. got a silver one this time 
@SmallNewBlue don’t be like that there’s another drop Saturday and then so on. Just wait patiently you’ll get yours.
Those went quick. We may open orders again next weekend for those who missed out. After that the next time will be end of the month/beginning of February. Both Lian Li and Taiwan Post will be closed for around the last week of January for the Chinese New Year.
Oh I’m not giving up just will be putting everything in another case until I can actually get one
Ahh yeah there’s another drop next Saturday too. Good luck next week. I know you probably did it already but it’s worth it to make it an account and have shipping address and everything ready.
It is difficult but not their fault. They have a larger batch of inventory but as I understand it the logistics of shipping around the Chinese New Year means they are opening orders for small batches that can be shipped quickly so there isn’t a several weeks gap between ordering windows. Apparently if the full production run was released at least 3 days of stock would be available but we’d all have to wait a month or so to even get a chance to order it. So this was the compromise Necere came up with.
Earlier post mentioned it would sell out sooner, like in 24 hours rather than the usual 3 days. Bit of an understatement but then shows how successful the product is in terms of demand.
This is not normal, if there is 10 pieces in stock so yess it wiil be gone in 10 sec. Peoples are wating months to get one.
when it will be again in stock? And how many pieces it will be then? 11 pieces this time?
I did not expect them to sell out quite so quickly. This was 1/5th of what was available during the previous order periods, and those lasted 3-4 days. I suppose it's a lot of people piling in initially and then tapering off when we have a larger quantity available. I had hoped this would give people more opportunities to get one - one day a week rather than 3-4 days every couple of months - but not if the demand keeps up like this. I guess I still expect it to taper off a bit, but we'll see. We'd just order more, but the earliest we can get production is the end of February.
Anyway, sorry if you couldn't get one. There were a lot of people competing for the few available (and yes, it was more than ten).
ParallaxStax is partially correct, the NF-A12x25 also comes in black, or more like a dark grey-ish colour, since due to the new material Noctua is using on this fan, they couldn't get it completely black. Alhough, it hasn't come out yet. They are expected to be released in Q1 2020.
Like I said, either next weekend or the beginning of February. People are sending angry emails because they sold out so quickly, so I'm not sure if a smaller quantity more frequently is going to work if they keep going at this rate. We could do twice the amount we just did every other week instead. Maybe that would be better.
I personally think small quantities will cause this kind of rush each time. Which for the consumer causes a period of angst when they try to get through and order but cannot.
I know it has been mentioned before but perhaps some sort of preorder facility would pre empt this.
On a open window for ordering it might help advising quantities available. Securing an item for a few mins to allow time to checkout might help. For those not lucky enough to obtain one of the available units it might be beneficial to take the order allocating a certain quantity of next window allocation. This could be advised on checkout so buyer would be aware and cancel if not interested. I think most buyers would simply be happy to secure their allocation.
I know it has been mentioned before but perhaps some sort of preorder facility would pre empt this.
On a open window for ordering it might help advising quantities available. Securing an item for a few mins to allow time to checkout might help. For those not lucky enough to obtain one of the available units it might be beneficial to take the order allocating a certain quantity of next window allocation. This could be advised on checkout so buyer would be aware and cancel if not interested. I think most buyers would simply be happy to secure their allocation.
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Why not just open pre order, give an estiamted amount of time for when they case will be shipped/produced so ppl then can decide for themselfes if they want to wait that time and place a pre order (so you don't have to be online on a specific time). I think that would be the better option.
Damned if we do, damned if we don't though, right? We do smaller quantities more frequently -> people rush and near instant OOS -> upset people. Larger quantities less frequently -> OOS for a month or more a time -> upset people because we're always OOS. Can't win.
Yeah, but how would that work? If we just open pre-orders, they'll fill up just as fast as regular orders. So then what's the point?
This is a limitation of Shopify, and they seem to have some good reasons for it. Not sure I'd want to do that after reading that thread.
I guess what you're suggesting, and what a lot of people want, is a waiting list, essentially. I don't know how to do that on the back end, but I suppose it's something I can look into.
