{"id":3357,"date":"2016-08-25T18:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2016-08-25T18:26:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T18:26:42","slug":"tiko-printer-creator-refuses-to-update-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"TIKO printer, creator refuses to update campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>For those interested,Despite hundreds of requests for a formal update for the campaigns 16k backers Tiko states they will not issue an update until they send out a large shipment (which may be &#8220;3+ months&#8221; away).The last update was made 6\/27, nearly two months ago. In that update they claimed they would be shipping 2500+ printers a week by the end of July. To date they have sent 200 printers. The creators claim no update is needed as anyone concerned could come and read through the 13,000+ comments to get information on the current status. The comments section they recently called &#8220;clutter&#8221;. They have admitted they do not update the campaign because informing the backers would upset a &#8220;16,000+ person strong bee&#8217;s nest&#8221;The Tiko team has called those who have questioned them in the past few weeks: &#8220;armchair experts&#8221; &#8220;trolls and fear-mongerers&#8221; &#8220;doubters&#8221;They recently lashed out with the following comment &#8220;To those of you who wish to rant, unconstructively criticize, or lob conspiracy theories and accusations at us, don&#8217;t expect to be dignified with a response. We&#8217;ve worked too hard and made to many sacrifices to come here and argue with you, just because you&#8217;ve lost your nerve at the first sign of trouble.&#8221;Why the delay you might ask? &#8220;Revolutionary&#8221; software (slicer) doesn&#8217;t work, calibration doesn&#8217;t work, heater calibration is wildly inaccurate, problems with incorrect assembly, and a large percentage of the 200 printers sent arrived damaged.None of this has been deemed worthy of an update. http:\/\/ift.tt\/2bAlscu<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested,Despite hundreds of requests for a formal update for the campaigns 16k backers Tiko states they will not issue an update until they send out a large shipment (which may be &#8220;3+ months&#8221; away).The last update was made 6\/27, nearly two months ago. In that update they claimed they would be shipping 2500+ &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=3357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TIKO printer, creator refuses to update campaign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}