It IS what I'm talking about. It's about adapting to a new situation (even if it's not your fault) and satisfying customers (which should always be a priority). Don't tell me what I'm talking about. As a Sales Manager for the last 20 years in multi-million (million to billion) high-tech projects, I surely know what satisfying customers is about. Do you ? Do terms like SLA mean anything to you ? You would be surprised at the things a company can do to satisfy another business entity.
But of course B2C is a whole another story. C's generally have no means of demanding anything, even if the C's as a whole represent enough as a big B. Which is the reason for companies like Massdrop to exist in the first place. If a C was ordering, say, 1000 stacks from Topping, you can be sure that Topping would be delivering them in blue (like the 6XX), red, pink or green if he asked to, with a nice custom logo to top(ping) it all.
Anyway, this whole color+AKM story looks bad right now, so I guess I'll just be ordering my stacks on 11.11 and forget about this. At least I'll get a nice discount (about 150$ vs. the regular price for 2 stacks + cables). Hey, for that price I could even have them repainted to my liking !