AWESOME! use this link for an extra $100 off 
http://glowforge.com/referred/?kid=BqP4Q0
Itās such a good investment, I hope you guys go through with it! use this link for an extra $100 off http://glowforge.com/referred/?kid=BqP4Q0
I have to say, it really concerns me the number of linkspam bots associated with the Glowforge discount.
Sorry to hear that 
just trying to help! Definitely not a botā¦ Are you, Gir?
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Your account was created only a few minutes before your first post, regarding glowforge discount, and then you double-posted the same thing again.
Iāve been spammed on twitter to take discount referrals from random people there as well.
Makes me wonder about the legitimacy of the entire company, but Iām not seeing many people terribly worried about it so what the hellā¦
Gotta vent that they are 160 times oversubscribed, I guess we have plenty of time to clean up and find space for it 
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Yeah, thatās a worry. Even if we donāt see ours until June next year I still think itās more progress than weāll get doing what weāre doing currently.
In the event that itās a total scam and Iām responsible for burning $4k worth of member funds, I hope to make it up to you all by writing a proposal for and winning a stronger communities grant February next yearā¦
Also, @kristinfaus, if you really are just a well-intentioned human, apologies for my cynicism - Iāve been dealing with fake invoice and fake adword scams etc. In recent months.
In the meantime, I am keen to hear more about how closely tied Glowfirge is to their ācloud basedā motion processor. The ADSL at the space is crappy and latency to Australia is crappier. So I hope this doesnāt result in burnt materials and burnt out lasers!
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Fair enough, I apologize for offending and/or annoying you. I was stoked to use a referral link to get a discount on mine so I was just trying to spread the love
Itās been purchased. I didnāt feel comfortable using the email-address trick kindly offered by @M0les, and I clean forgot to try @kristinfausās URL. So although we got the 50% discount, erm, I somehow managed to miss out on an easy further $100 discount.
If this does present a problem, I am confident we can overcome itā¦ I have some more things to try, I just need to actually try them.
AFAICT Thatās not a discount referral URL, itās your personal URL for tracking the progress of your referral discount (IIRC, as more people signed-up for updates from your referral, your discount would increase by $50-ish each one). The referral programās now ended, so you can nolonger track/increase the referral bonus.
The referral bonus only takes effect if you enter your subscribed email address on the purchase page. To see this in action, go to the glowforge purchase page and enter my subscription address āglowforge@snubdomainā (Or use your own one, if you have one) - You donāt have to fill any other fields or complete the order, just focus away from the email address field and the $-100 discount magically pops-up.
In other words, the referral program allowed people who signed-up others for email updates ahead of the launch to get a discount on their own purchase. Unlike other referral programes, those referred got no discount and the referrer got no direct cut of referrees payments (e.g. like Amazon affiliates).
Ah, I see. Though the E-mail confirmation I got does say regarding our URL: āIf you share this link with a friend and they too buy a Glowforge, theyāll get a sweet $100 off.ā.
Who knows. I just hope they ship the damn thing
When I mentioned our ADSL situation on twitter they said they will be working on a low bandwidth and fault tolerant mode. They also said the bandwidth requirements are pretty low so we could, theoretically, have that particular machine connected to the CBR Free Wifi once the Belco APs get lit up.
They have also said there will be a GPLed firmware ready on release that wont depend on the cloud software. Worst case, we just use it like any old gcode/hpgl CNC machine and join in on building/using the inevitable fat client that will spring up.
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