I admit they were in the middle of trying to ship printers to all the Kickstarter backers (and were perhaps a little disorganized) hopefully after the back-log has been shipped out wait times will actually be in the 4 week range mentioned on the pre-order page! 3/2016 and it arrived on May 26/2016 (fours months). Now pre-order has a strange definition as you need to pay the full purchase price then wait patiently until they deliver the product which in my case took several months I Pre-ordered mine on Feb. Like a lot of products this one started on ' Kickstarter' I was not able to purchase mine from that successfully campaign but I was able to Pre-order direct from the BigBox website. E3D and LittleBox have 15 years of 3D printing experience between them and have poured that know-how into designing a 3D printer that meets the specifications that they demand in a 3D printer. Two renowned companies in the maker scene have teamed up to bring a whole new experience of 3D printing. Presented in a neat, clutter free package with an easy to use toolchain. It combines immense print resolution, huge print volume and an extrusion system capable of almost every material on the market. The BigBox is a no-compromises, high specification 3D printer.