All Quiet on the Oppo front?

2 more this month, how did you find that out? You received your notification the same day as me, are you still waiting too?

@joekapahulu 

Oppo will send an E-mail to confirm the E-mail address is correct within a week or 2. Which is all I have received so far and that was on May 6, I believe. If there is enough to cover all the requester's, the next E-mail will be "what's your credit card # ". Otherwise, you may never hear from them. Stereo5 contacted them directly to get a status on shipments. Frankly, I'm surprised they told him that much. They seem to be pretty tight lipped...

@esthlos13

You will notice a big jump. Everything you have mentioned will add a little, to add up to a lot. Especially the balanced IC's. I say get the most expensive IC's you can afford.

Plus, don't be too surprised if Oppo comes back with an E-mail offer.

To any concerned:

As of today, 08/10/2018, Oppo's website states: " We are on track to receive a shipment in late August and mid-September".  "We are no longer taking E-mail requests".

There was supposed to be an end of August shipment .
So,now it's September. has anyone received an E-mail to buy from Oppo this past week?
I didn't. Stereo5, hear anything?

@uberwaltz 

Maybe not...Oppo say's on their website there will be a mid-September shipment coming in.

@stereo5 

Would you E-mail me? I see from the GE site you have the same Esoteric I'm now considering. 

Thanks for your responses. Guess I missed the cut again. There is supposedly a mid-September shipment coming. Maybe I'll get an invite then.

@stereo5 

Kinda ticks you off to hear that one guy didn't E-mail request one until the end of May and gets one yesterday, huh?

Thanks for these updates. It's the only way to know what Oppo is up to.
Did they require a signature to deliver? 

I confirmed my E-mail address the same as stereo5; May 9.
Oppo does not seem to be using the first come, first served method. Their website indicates E-mails being sent out to requester's in "batches".

@stereo5 
Doesn't this all remind you a little of the T-Ref's a year ago?

I wrote SG a letter and got a pair. 

Interesting...I tried to call them yesterday and the message I got was the phone was inoperable. 

"Coming soon"....Hmmmm. Well, they're website does say a shipment is coming in mid-September, so maybe we're on that list.

You know if people are confirming at the end of May, they likely didn't even put a request in until after May 9, I would think. I originally signed up towards the end of April.

Yes, interesting. Oppo is using the inititial interest E-mail as the point of establishing the order of a buy offer, not the "verification of E-mail" for a future offer.

I verified my E-mail address on May 9, which seems to have been a date used for mass requests sent by them. 

With Aprox. 5,000 buyers requesting one, I would think Oppo would reconsider manufacturing these things or sell the rights to Cambridge Audio or someone interested in doing so. That's a large market for any high-end manufacturer for any product!
 

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@ptss 
What day did you receive an invite to purchase?  I thought they were done sending invites by this time.

And yea, you picked up on it. 125 & 250 Pursangs were the dominant force when I was growing up until the Japanese took over. 

@uberwaltz
Right! That's what they have been saying on their website. "A shipment coming the end of August and the middle of September". I would like to believe it takes them awhile to notify and prepare shipments. So, maybe the end of August shipment is still being allocated. 

In other words, the mid-September allocations have not been notified or shipped yet... I hope.

It would appear that Oppo has had it's last waltz.. That's all folks!

Let the bidding wars begin.

And Pursang's ruled.