Just noticed this got updated yesterday...
Thanks for pointing this out. It's certainly… interesting…
Compare this to their December 18 update:
In that update they had 239 pre-orders in their "next deliveries" wave, being “shipped at a rate of approximately 15 orders per day” with 84 already delivered —they also mention 96 reimbursed, so if those are to be subtracted from the 239 total pre-order count that would mean there were 59 orders still unfulfilled. I'm guessing the 96 reimbursed
shouldn't be counted in the total though, which would have left them with 155 orders still to ship.
But now in the March 2 update the first, second, and third batches are reported as fully complete, and for the “next deliveries” timeframe (where we’re all presumably stuck 😜) “a total of 424 kits have already been delivered” —which certainly sounds decent but I have no idea how to square those numbers with the December update…
Based on the total ship count it would seem they've taken on at least 185 (new) orders from December’s reported pre-order number, but if we remove the 84 that were already delivered as of the Dec update, that leaves us with 340 deliveries done since the December update.
Incidentally, there were
51 official working days in France between December 18 2025 and March 2 2026 —but let’s say grant some extra Christmas vacation time with no kits worked on/shipped between December 23rd to Jan 4th, leaving ~41 working days since then.
In that timeframe they’d appear to be averaging
maybe 6 to 8-ish kits sent per day…? At the December 15/day estimate they could have potentially shipped all 424 orders in ~28 working days (which would have also cleared the backlog reported in the December update —239 orders, 84 already shipped— in ~10 working days), but that doesn't seem to be happening.
All that said, I think the real question is how
many orders actually remain outstanding rather than how many have been delivered total, since that’s the only way to back-solve to any kind of "when you might get it" timeframe. Honestly, if there was a queue system to keep everybody apprised “there are 22 orders ahead of you, approximate wait time: 14 weeks” that would probably alleviate a lot of anxiety for all involved.
Regardless, the delivery timeframes being presented on items such as the M4 8TB and the M2 8TB remain incorrect (“delay 2 months” and “delay 1 months” respectively) so if people are stumbling across their site and placing orders expecting those timeframes they’ll be a bit disappointed…
Edit: Last week the paragraph above was accurate… When I double-checked before posting today almost everything has been marked "Out of stock" and the site won't let people add them to their carts (except
M1 2TB &
4TB which have "Out of stock - preorder" status) so at least there are signs of activity, and better than taking on further orders with inaccurate fulfilment timelines.
