thanks jcmccorm for updating us. I see we haven't made it out of april yet. I wonder if the first batch shipment of the 990 is already exhausted or not.

I got my wait list confirmation on April 22, and I received my invitation to order on May 23. I confirmed my order on May 27 and I received my 990 yesterday. It is a great pre/pro.

Sorry for the late reply - vacation!

April 26 is when I see the activity to Outlaw about the 990. Accourding to the emails and correspondences so far, it shipped out and should arrive 07June - tomorrow. The "Your 990 is REady" email came on 31 May so the turn around time was about 4 weeks from my calculations.

Thanks!

Thanks, phatlac. That puts us moving along fairly well - the batch of invitations to order sent out two weeks ago covered reservation list spots up to at least April 22, and the invitations to order sent out last week covered reservation list spots up to at least April 26. Based on that pace and the fact that we seem to be getting one batch of invitations to order every week, the next batch of invitations should show up in the next day or two and should get us to the end of April. Maybe we'll even get into May - after all, it took several batches of invitations just to get from 8:00PM on April 17 to the evening of April 18, and now we're seeing several days worth of reservations covered by a single invitation batch.

I've been worried that the invitation batches would stop going out at some point when the first batch ran out, but I'm beginning to think that Outlaw may be able to avoid that. Here's why I say that: the second batch was reportedly on the water a month ago (based on a comment in the first batch of invitation e-mails sent out on May 8), and based on the first batch's transit time (in transit on 4/4 when the unit was announced and shipping out a little over a month later) it's very possible that the second batch is either in hand now or pretty near at hand.

gonk: just wondering how many they can ship in a day??? Seems like they would have caught up a little more quickly unless they ran out of 990s.

I don't know what sort of specific volume they are able to ship - Outlaw (like everybody other company I'm aware of in this industry) is very tight-lipped about sales numbers. They may have shipped the first production run out in small batches rather than a single massive drop in order to better manage the shipments and allow for a more controlled roll-out since it's a new product.

I got in line 8 days after the opening, received my notice last Thursday, and ordered last night.

gonk: that very well could be, but I was wondering why they couldn't ship 100 a day and work the backlog!

Still waiting for word on the 790. Maybe 4th of July? LOL!!

I submitted a form for getting on the waiting list on 5/14 but received no e-mail confirmation of having done so, as your April newsletter implied I would. I tried again on 5/28. Same result. I really want one.

Bill:

If you didn't receive the confirmation letter from your initial request to get on the reservation list you should probably contact Outlaw Customer Service!