Fosi Audio V3 Mono Amplifier Review

[P1NBA11ER]

This is getting really annoying for those who ordered early ...
Fosi should make a statement here.

Beyond annoying. They've still not responded to me or made any updates to my order. Needless to say my enthusiasm for the company or the product has waned dramatically.

 

[DannyBoyNYC]

Drama is the operative word on this thread at the moment. Reminds me of a piece of graffiti from the Paris student revolts in the 60s - “the urge to consume terrorizes you.” Patience.

 

[early rejecter]

Drama is the operative word on this thread at the moment.

Yeah, some of the responses here are really over the top! The fact that they’ve started shipping during the month initially estimated probably puts them in the top 5 or 10 percent of Kickstarter campaigns. Kickstarter themselves say that delays of over six MONTHS are not uncommon! They have 1800+ orders to fill; perhaps emails requesting an order status update aren’t top priority at the moment.

(Editing to add: I just went through my Kickstarter email archive and see that the last non-Fosi campaign I supported shipped 14 months later than estimated, and I considered that one a great success. I was one of the first 50 to support the V3 Mono; if they arrive at some point in July I’ll be perfectly happy.)

 

[DavidM1]

Yeah, some of the responses here are really over the top! The fact that they’ve started shipping during the month initially estimated probably puts them in the top 5 or 10 percent of Kickstarter campaigns. Kickstarter themselves say that delays of over six MONTHS are not uncommon! They have 1800+ orders to fill; perhaps emails requesting an order status update aren’t top priority at the moment.

If Fosi hadn't pitched the 15th of June and said despatch would be in the order of backing then no one would be able to complain. Is this like Madonna's concerts where the defence is that any reasonable person should expect a delay? Fosi has been good at dealing with the public previously but they've had months to plan for this and have launched a new product at the same time. I'm not too fussed. I expect everything will arrive eventually but overpromising is always a trap.

 

[Borland]

That has nothing to do with drama. I would just like to know why number 1800 is delivered earlier than number 4. Fosi is usually active here in the forum, so a small message shouldn't cause any "pain".

 

[Negatywny]

“the urge to consume terrorizes you.”

Yes

 

[Talisman]

Beyond annoying. They've still not responded to me or made any updates to my order. Needless to say my enthusiasm for the company or the product has waned dramatically.

Guys, relax, have a joint, drink a beer.... It's a kickstarter campaign with thousands of signups, they'll send everything to everyone, obviously not everything to everyone at the same time. I don't think it's appropriate to make it a drama or a question of distrust in the company.
NB my 2xFosi V3 mono + 2x48v 5a hasn't been shipped yet either

 

[Talisman]

That has nothing to do with drama. I would just like to know why number 1800 is delivered earlier than number 4. Fosi is usually active here in the forum, so a small message shouldn't cause any "pain".

Did you think that in addition to the main reward, everyone chose different secondary rewards? Some opamps, some cables, some t-shirts, perhaps it is linked to the different availability of secondary rewards. But who cares anyway... I don't think anyone was waiting for the two monoblocks to start listening to music, right?

 

[Borland]

But who cares anyway...

Me. Not you? Then don't write anything about it ...

 

[Talisman]

Me. Not you? Then don't write anything about it ...

Luckily it's a public forum and I can still write what I think without having to account to you.

 

[Borland]

That's true, of course, sorry.
Some things should simply be ignored... That's what I'm doing now.

 

[Wysor]

Merci. Impossible de le trouver nulle part. J'ai été un sponsor tardif, ne m'engageant que juste après la clôture de la campagne officielle. Je viens de contacter Fosi mais je suis sûr que je dois juste être patient.

they send the survey 25th june for the late customers.

 

[Keauval]

I may be mistaken, but in my logic it seems necessary to have a significant number of information to make basic assumptions for our limited preception of reality.

Means:
- Place (continent or type of power connector) ,
- order number (a less important criteria I may have understood),
- contents (5v/10v, speaker or other extras)
could give us some directions.

As far as I've understood the above comments, I would conclude:
They have started to hand out infomation to some clients, less so to clients with 10v PSU and speakers on order.
Ask and answer the right question to limit what some not untruely called a madness. ;-)
A+

You really want to investiguate ?
IMO There is a lot of other factor to consider...
Have you think about the Name Alphabetical order for example ?

FYI Mine have been sent yesterday... My name starts by a "C" and my Kickstarter number is >1000

 

[gwing]

You really want to investiguate ?
IMO There is a lot of other factor to consider...
Have you think about the Name Alphabetical order for example ?

FYI Mine have been sent yesterday... My name starts by a "C" and my Kickstarter number is >1000

I did chuckle at the alphabetic order bit.

I can happily forgive Fosi for a bit of a delay, but arbitrarily choosing alphabetic order as a shipping sequence would I think be sufficiently stupid to cause some annoyance. I would expect shipping dates to be affected by the availability of the components chosen and/or location and within that to be either random order or hopefully by ordering date - nobody would really choose alphabetic order would they?

 

[Lee T]

An update post from Fosi on Kickstarter and/or emailing everybody on the order list with a quick comment along the lines of "We faced unexpectedly high demand, we're working on it and expect the last shipments to be delayed until . . . " just to keep everybody in the loop would have worked and taken very little staff time.
I'm fairly confident it will work out fine.

 

[early rejecter]

Is this like Madonna's concerts where the defence is that any reasonable person should expect a delay?

The fact that the word “delay” is even being used is wild to me. The campaign opened with an estimate of shipping in June, and the most recent update said it’d start June 15th. Kickstarter rewards can take weeks to completely fulfill. If everyone’s amps are in the post by the first or second week of July, I’d consider that on-time performance.

 

[DTTOM37]

You really want to investiguate ?
IMO There is a lot of other factor to consider...
Have you think about the Name Alphabetical order for example ?

FYI Mine have been sent yesterday... My name starts by a "C" and my Kickstarter number is >1000

Not really
and I would even suggest to the mods - @AdamG @BDWoody - to put every post about these assumptions in a seperate "Fosi V3 Kickstarter order information" thread in order to not further pollute the V3 review thread.

 

[Guddu]

An update post from Fosi on Kickstarter and/or emailing everybody on the order list with a quick comment along the lines of "We faced unexpectedly high demand, we're working on it and expect the last shipments to be delayed until . . .

Strange, what high demands?
Kickstarter should have ended with definitive number of buyers as well as no. of products to be sent.

However, everyone will get their amps…. Sooner or later.

I'm fairly confident it will work out fine.

Absolutely

 

[Sputnik]

Beyond annoying. They've still not responded to me or made any updates to my order. Needless to say my enthusiasm for the company or the product has waned dramatically.

Not only did you agree that shipping times were not guaranteed, you even agreed that they might not ship you anything at all.

So is Fosi a bad company for not shipping at the exact time and in the order they expected, or are you a bad customer for complaining about something you were warned about several times before you could even pay?

If you need amps right now, you shouldn't buy from Kickstarter. If you want amps right now, you should grow up and accept that you explicitly agreed to this exact situation.

 

[Alex_Brouwer]

Not only did you agree that shipping times were not guaranteed, you even agreed that they might not ship you anything at all.

So is Fosi a bad company for not shipping at the exact time and in the order they expected, or are you a bad customer for complaining about something you were warned about several times before you could even pay?

If you need amps right now, you shouldn't buy from Kickstarter. If you want amps right now, you should grow up and accept that you explicitly agreed to this exact situation.

What where people expecting with a goal of 50k and a backing of almost half a million