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.
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