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    Thread: Iwinks Aurora "dream band" was not sent out, and I can prove it.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Highlander View Post
      Wow! Can people really stomach all the BS whilst waiting another 8 to 12 years for the next generation Auroras? Nope. We are still expecting the second coming of the Novadreamer.
      After over a year of monthly "it's coming in two weeks" responses about N2D2, I've just given up.
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      Hey, I know this thread died, but I have some opinions and concerns, I'd like to share.

      1. There are far too few unboxing videos, given the amount of units claimed sent, there are at least 1,200 preorders, and 25% of those were getting these supposed units, meaning 300 people should be giving reviews by now

      2.They claimed to give ndas, that would start in 2017 and end in 2018. Yet at the end of 2018 when the ndas lifted no mass reviews or unboxings.

      3.Right after a member of this site ezzolucid showed pictures of their unit a few YouTube unboxing and reviews went out immediately during my call out, during the apparent nda and have not been repeated by anyone else. one year later I checked again in sep 2018 when nda's were gone and immediately smelled fish.

      4.I gave the benefit of doubt to ezzolucid last year, and still see him as having a decent interest in ld's and has a lot of good info. But that said his whole story of talking to these uncontactable people and claiming they just gave him units because he's good at deild, no no I mean they all have consumer groups for that, they have people in the team who claim to be experts at deild, in fact one expert on deild on their team looks like the guy ezzolucid posted, so much so that...

      5.A reverse search on the picture posted by ezzolucid actually showed the same person as a member of the development team, in a group photo (now I can't outright prove this to anyone, and I'm making no claims that I'm 100% right, but I got interested in how suspicious this has been for years, and I occasionally like to see if any real progress is done, seems not much, nor am I saying ezzolucid didn't get a unit, just he had one because he was involved with the team ). That made me suspicious of the youtube reviews during an nda in which no such unboxings should technically exist.

      5. At least two of the very limited amount of reviews are people working on the unit. Phase Evolution did an unboxing and revere searching him and TheRaRaRabbit both revealed their development members as well.

      Look am I wrong, can I prove those two you tubers are members, no! I used freely and legally available machine learning reverse face searches that while not nearly 100% accurate in fact more like 50/50, in my opinion for it to reverse back the picture ezzolucid posted of a man holding a unit, and the two you-tubers also linking back to members of the same team. That's hard for me to ignore.

      6.These next two are the biggest one's for me. 2017 was not the 1st time they claimed to have mass units for the backers. Using the wayback machine I found this "We have received the next batch of 100 fully assembled Aurora Dreamband devices ready for the backers" this is a post they made in 2016 next batch my @** They deleated that and claimed a year later the same thing. After all this time there are still only only the same four youtube reviews two years later, with at least two people in the reviews potentially being members of the team. If they had 100 units in 2016, with an nda that ended in 2017 and another 200 in 2017, with an nda that ended in sep of 2018, where are the 100 reviews from the 100 2016 units? where are the two hundred reviews from the 2017 units? New nda?! or what?

      7.Thier new update states "ATTN: to all of our wonderful kickstarter backers still awaiting a preorder, please confirm your shipping address at the below link BY MAY 1st OR YOUR ORDER WILL BE FORFEITED." Sorry but these people were scam artist. if you did not respond to thier obscure message your unit was already "FORFEITED."

      one user claimed "getting really angry right now. my device was send back by the customs because i was overseas during the time it arrived. I contacted aurora several times via ther website contact page.. never got an answer. i wrote a message in the comment-section... never got an answer.
      what am i supposed to do? i guess i will inform kickstarter support. this behavior is outrageous." It wasn't sent back to customs bro, cause it wasn't sent to you, they only send thing's big like tv's servers, or furniture back to customs. It would be left on your porch.

      "after again completely forgetting about this project I just had a look into your iwinks account - and my order status apparently is "failed delivery" - and thats some 8 months ago."

      So they claim last call for all kick starter units with no new reviews from all these people who apparently got units the nda is up and now they claim "IF WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED AN ADDRESS CONFIRMATION by MAY 1st, 2018, we will be forced to assume YOUR UNIT FORFEITED" on the kickstarter. Think about that for a sec, think about all 1,200 units that are now "FORFEITED" this is why there is no new reviews, because if you were not watching the kickstarter like a hawk, like 99% of the people who pre ordered this were told you openly forfeited your unit. There are 30 individuals who claimd to try to contact them under that post, and all have never been abile to contact them. What shitty individuals. They knew no one was watching, and they did what I said they would do. If you pre ordered this thing, please be aware they forfeited 99% of the backers, and that's a forfeit without refund. Pulling a forfeit is something done in business, it is not something you do to apparent customers. The Backers of this need to actually be made aware of what happened, if you know anyone who was a backer of the nearly 1/2 million dollars, let them know after last May they were forfeited on without a clause to do so. Just saying people's emails change is not a proper clause for a forfeit of goods. The sad part is people will look at this and say what did you expect? Especially people looking at this from the internet with a little interest in lding. Really, if someone could make this concept with proper placement on the MASTOID, it could work. I am not shocked that they pulled a forfeit on everyone, as I knew a long time ago this product was unworkable without the mastoid placement.
      Last edited by pointofbeing; 12-20-2018 at 07:16 AM.
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      FYI -- I live outside the US. Nothing is left on your doorstop, people in cities mostly live in apartments where I live. The post office holds all parcels, sends a "parcel waiting" note to your mailbox at home, waits like 2-4 weeks, and then if you don't pick it up, really does do a "return to sender."

      But yeah -- where are all the unboxing videos/reviews? This is the thing that really bugs me, too. I am soooooooooo glad I resisted the temptation to pre-order. These guys just disappeared. Maybe they had something, maybe not, but they turned out to be totally slimy. There has not been even one decent producer. We'll see how iband+ goes. For now, as always (consumer hardware from scratch for a small team is *hard*), iband+ has delays, delays, delays.
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      Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
      FYI -- I live outside the US. Nothing is left on your doorstop, people in cities mostly live in apartments where I live. The post office holds all parcels, sends a "parcel waiting" note to your mailbox at home, waits like 2-4 weeks, and then if you don't pick it up, really does do a "return to sender.".
      In America I live at an apartment and the boxes just pile up like crazy. We got one in the hallway right now that say's free, and states "I was too lazy to properly ship this" haha.

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      Hi everyone, im very disappointed to hear the above comments - Im on noones team, I dont know the guys at iWinks either and I have no hidden motives. Everything Ive posted is true and to have my honesty bought into question is saddening. I saw a way in to get an early unit and took it, simple. I spent weeks giving the iwinks team advice on how best to DEILD using their device and they sent a unit to me. If you dont belive me then thats fine. Also the photos that I posted were taken by my on my desk.

      I did post a few of my reviews here. I didnt do an unboxing video because I am a 46 year old man - not a teenager!

      I stopped posting a while back because the Aurora started giving inacurate readings and the software update still hasnt arrived. I will try to answer some of the questions above. Please dont insinuate that im not being honest otherwise I wont post on here again. This might not seem like a loss but I have had 2 Auroras and a wealth of experience and experimentation...

      1. There are far too few unboxing videos, given the amount of units claimed sent, there are at least 1,200 preorders, and 25% of those were getting these supposed units, meaning 300 people should be giving reviews by now


      Ive given several reviews and I dont do unboxing videos (or any videos) Im not a teenager

      2.They claimed to give ndas, that would start in 2017 and end in 2018. Yet at the end of 2018 when the ndas lifted no mass reviews or unboxings.

      I am no longer under an NDA and even if I was it would bother me seeing as Im in the UK and have no links to iWinks whatsoever. If you have questions then ask away

      3.Right after a member of this site ezzolucid showed pictures of their unit a few YouTube unboxing and reviews went out immediately during my call out, during the apparent nda and have not been repeated by anyone else. one year later I checked again in sep 2018 when nda's were gone and immediately smelled fish.

      The picture I showed I took on my desk as someone wanted to know about the inner workings. It was a broken unit that I photos

      4.I gave the benefit of doubt to ezzolucid last year, and still see him as having a decent interest in ld's and has a lot of good info. But that said his whole story of talking to these uncontactable people and claiming they just gave him units because he's good at deild, no no I mean they all have consumer groups for that, they have people in the team who claim to be experts at deild, in fact one expert on deild on their team looks like the guy ezzolucid posted, so much so that...

      OK, so for starter there are no experts on the DEILD iwinks team in my opinion. Most of their knowledge came from me, in fact there manual was crafted using my advice and guidance. Noone is 'uncontactable' if you know where to look! I had the knowledge these guys were missing and the timing was right - I got lucky. As for me looking like some other guy, im unsure what that means, there are no pictures of me on social media anywhere?

      5.A reverse search on the picture posted by ezzolucid actually showed the same person as a member of the development team, in a group photo (now I can't outright prove this to anyone, and I'm making no claims that I'm 100% right, but I got interested in how suspicious this has been for years, and I occasionally like to see if any real progress is done, seems not much, nor am I saying ezzolucid didn't get a unit, just he had one because he was involved with the team ). That made me suspicious of the youtube reviews during an nda in which no such unboxings should technically exist.

      Im really unsure what you mean by all this? The only photo I ever took was the one I took on my desk? I highly doubt its anywhere else as it was of my broken unit as someone had requested. Once again - in NOT involved with the team. Ive never met them - I live 1000's of miles away

      5. At least two of the very limited amount of reviews are people working on the unit. Phase Evolution did an unboxing and revere searching him and TheRaRaRabbit both revealed their development members as well.

      Yes I saw these unboxing videos

      Look am I wrong, can I prove those two you tubers are members, no! I used freely and legally available machine learning reverse face searches that while not nearly 100% accurate in fact more like 50/50, in my opinion for it to reverse back the picture ezzolucid posted of a man holding a unit, and the two you-tubers also linking back to members of the same team. That's hard for me to ignore.

      I NEVER posted a picture of a man holding a unit!!!!!!!!! I have also NEVER posted a picture of myself online anywhere. I am a taxi driver in the UK, I have no interest in posting myself online - That picture you speak of categorically was NOT posted by me (ezzolucid)


      6.These next two are the biggest one's for me. 2017 was not the 1st time they claimed to have mass units for the backers. Using the wayback machine I found this "We have received the next batch of 100 fully assembled Aurora Dreamband devices ready for the backers" this is a post they made in 2016 next batch my @** They deleated that and claimed a year later the same thing. After all this time there are still only only the same four youtube reviews two years later, with at least two people in the reviews potentially being members of the team. If they had 100 units in 2016, with an nda that ended in 2017 and another 200 in 2017, with an nda that ended in sep of 2018, where are the 100 reviews from the 100 2016 units? where are the two hundred reviews from the 2017 units? New nda?! or what?

      Yes its very frustrating the amount of time these guys take, it took 3 months to get my first unit and when that broke it took many months more to get another one. They are now sending a replacement headband - this is because i perform loads of experiments for them as AN INDEPENDENT lucid dream enthusiast

      You said in your previous post that you gave me the benefit of the doubt - this was a correct choice, it seems that you are mistaken about the photo I sent. I happy to answer any questions

      ALSO you will see from my previous posts that I critisize iWinks and the Aurora a lot. Would I do that if we were in a team?

      I wont get dragged into any kind of argument. Im a respectable man and if you believe im being dishonest then please I will simply move over to another forum

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      "I NEVER posted a picture of a man holding a unit!!!!!!!!! I have also NEVER posted a picture of myself online anywhere. I am a taxi driver in the UK, I have no interest in posting myself online - That picture you speak of categorically was NOT posted by me (ezzolucid)"

      No, your right, The picture I was referring to, was from an unrelated person from an unboxing video. I got the pictures mixed up. I strongly feel they used you. They used you, by giving a few people like you working units. A lot of the images of "mass produced" units are imho fabrication. All they did for 1/2 million dollars is give you and a few others a unit, which is probably using IAmCoder's freeware.

      What they did in may, was a way to make them not have to make the units for anyone who did not read that update, made a fake forfeit claim. That is unbelievable they pulled that. A lot of people could not contact them for the email verification, which is bs. I mean what is the forfeit for?

      I don't think Iwinks even knows what Forfeiture is, or how to make a legal claim to forfeit their product. They legally need to make those units under kickstarters policy.
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      All Aurora owners have access to a Slack forum, we all communicate and share ideas and iWinks (Danny and Andrew) are regularly there on live chat. Noone used me. I used initiative to get a unit from them and it was very effective for me. Each day several people join the Slack community that have got their device. Its true that the iwinks team are painfully slow and awful at responding to people, i feel they got in above their heads somewhat.

      Maybe youre right about iwinks, I dont really care if they are 'real' or not. I got 2 units out of them and had many deilds by using the device. Its stopped working so well now and when I told them on slack they said they would send out another headband with new sensors to see if that solves the issue. I dont doubt that ill be waiting a while but im sure it will arrive just like they said.

      Ive been given no reason to doubt iwinks or their intentions. All I want to do is help people to deild using alarm devices. Ive written many articles on here on how to deild using all manner of alarms from apple watches to headphones etc, the Aurora was the best of them all when it worked

      I didnt come on here to have my honesty or integrity challenged. Im off to worldofluciddreaming.com bye all!
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