Quote Originally Posted by oninoshiko View Post
I paid for research and development. I have the results of that in-hand.
No, you paid for a printer which had already gone through R&D, and now being tweaked, to be shipped to you, parts and all, to be assembled by you. However, I think backers should be given the option to pay for shipping and get 1 of each part required for the printer to be shipped to us, from the stock that Ryland says he has. 90,000+ parts supposedly. So why shouldn't we be able to get those parts if we're willing to pay cheap shipping? Why should Ryland be allowed to now turn around and sell all those parts for a profit? Am I wrong?

This would probably make backers much happier than we are now.