I agree Bultaco. (Motorcycle reference?). It’s hard to believe they wouldn’t have made a run/runs to fill all orders. I’m sure many, myself included, would pay in advance.. I registered and confirmed months ago and thought this was a sure thing. However I haven’t heard anything lately and have read posts indicating production is over. ?? |
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! |
Below is the email I received on 5/9/18. I had entered my email address on the Oppo website about a month or 2 before saying I was interested in purchasing a 205. Thank you for your
interest in the OPPO UDP-205. As we get closer to availability, we need to
verify the e-mail addresses that have been registered. Please click on the link
below to validate your e-mail address. We will contact only validated e-mail
addresses. If you no longer wish to be on the UDP-205 Interest List, do not
click on the link and ignore this e-mail. On 8/29/18 I received an email from Oppo with a special link to purchase the 205 which I paid for immediately. I received the 205 9/6/18. |
Ok. So there appears some confusion here. Everyone gets an auto-reply from Oppo email requesting that they verify their email address. Thereafter, months later, some folks get a second email confirming their interest in getting a player? Is that second Oppo email the same as requesting payment, or did Oppo send yet a third email requesting payment? |
@uberwaltz, you are correct. I registered and verified my email address on the same date (5/9). Here is their email reply from my query of last night: ”You registered your interest for the player in May, so based on your current queue it does not seem likely that you will be offered a player for purchase due to how many customers are ahead of you and how many units we actually have manufactured, but you can continue to wait patiently and wait for an E-mail to come to us possible at the end of the month.” |
I do not think so. Unless the email reply from OPPO was just auto which I doubt, it does not say I missed an invitation, rather that there are a lot of names ahead . Just that seems at odds with your statement of June 24th confirmation. Maybe it was auto, maybe they are wrong. Not going to worry over it. Good luck to those who do receive one! |
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Is there a chance they sent you an invitation and it went to Spam? First thing I did when I applied for the UDP-203 interest list back in May was add Oppo’s email address to my address book. Doing this mitigates the email invitation to purchase from going to spam. Reading the posts here I honestly didn't think I was going to get an invitation. To my surprise I'm on vacation and I received an invitation. |
Email OPPO and had a reply within 30 minutes, although not really what I wanted to read but at least it was honest, see below. " Kevin,
We've received one shipment a little over a week ago and we're expecting our last shipment to arrive in the coming week. I've looked up your email address and there's over five thousand people ahead in the queue. If that information is accurate, the player is not likely going to be available to you as there are so many ahead and we are not able to manufacture enough units for everyone in the queue.
Customer Service OPPO Digital, Inc. 162 Constitution Dr. Menlo Park, CA 94025 [email protected] " Now I have no idea how many units per shipment but not in the order of thousands so there are definitely going to be a few disapointed people out there |
Recommendation: To receive the invitation email from Oppo to purchase a unit and mitigate the risk of the invitation going to Spam please add the following email to your contacts/address book of your email provider, example Yahoo, Hotmail etc... [email protected] |
Yup, it sure does. I don’t mind waiting until the end of this month. If nothing by then, I will buy the top of the line Sony. I have a 12 year old Sony player I paid $500 for from Best Buy. It takes forever to load a Blu Ray disk, been like it from day one. I have done all the firmware updates but it is really outdated. I thought the Oppo would be a good follow up. |
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. |
I corresponded with Oppo today. I explained to them that some people that confirmed their email after 5/9 already received theirs. They told me that Oppo used the date that people first signed up, not the date they confirmed email. I was also told to watch my email as one will be coming soon for me. So, who knows maybe I will get one. |
@stereo5 If I told you what I wanted it for, I know what you would say "Go Esoteric"...You see, I am planning on using it as my only source for CD/SACD playback ( no vinyl) in a pretty expensive system (over 60k) . I just don't know how to hook up my hard drive to anything else, to see on my TV, was is playing. I have 11,000 albums on it... |
FYI, I received an email from Oppo on 8/30. It said one Oppo 205 unit was available tfor me to purchase and that the window to purchase closes 9/2 but no guarantees that they wouldnt run out of units before the end of 9/2. I did purchase one unit on 8/31 and received confirmation. I believe that I got on the list in late April. |