u/JaschaE

Like many here, I bought the RB67 back in July 25, expecting to receive it, ya know, at some point.
Doing some CAD work myself, and actually having tried to make my own instax back, I understood some of the delay messages better than most, i.e. those screws are indeed unobtanium.
Well, the "This what happened" Mails ran out, and so did my patience, so I asked for a refund end of January. Exchanged a couple mails assuring me that my refund was being processed. Didn't turn up, so I asked if they could maybe find a supplier to blame for that. And indeed, it turned out it's the fault of the payment processing company. I received screenshots of the transfer order, that was end of february.
Seeing as their Insta is still reposting the video advertising the non-existent backs, I asked where my money was this week (may 26).

The answer contained this interesting paragraph:

>The reality is that refunds are currently taking much longer than they should because a large portion of the funds had already been committed to production before the manufacturing problems forced us to restart everything with a new supplier. That is not meant as an excuse, only an honest explanation of why the situation became so difficult.

To me that reads roughly as "We spent all the money, the company is broke and our only hope is new suckers will keep us afloat before the lawsuits start in earnest. You'll never see a product or your money, sucks to be you, we are the victims in this."

They are US based, but here in germany, a company that can't pay their bills is legally required to declare bankruptcy. Not declaring that, even knowing that money will be coming in, is considered a form of fraud. Anybody know if there is something similar in the US?

EDIT: Had a look around wanting to know how they are financed and such, instead found this 6year old post discussing how they use fresh campaign money to fulfill their promises to the old backers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/ew9qdv/jollylook_auto_a_kickstarter_campaign_to_get/

As my 30x30cm camera is scheduled to take it's first "Full format" images in less than a week, I talked to some friends and acquaintances about it (Couldn't stop me if they tried).
I mentioned the issue of having to design a 30x30cm holder and shooting on paper because... yeah, I don't have specialty-size film budget.
X-ray technician pipes up saying "Thats a pretty common format to do hand and feet images on, just get x-Ray film?"
Well, from what I saw they where partially right, the film is much more agreeable on the bank account BUT, the nearest common size seems to be 30x40cm. Couldn't find much in terms of experience stuffing it in a camera. Anybody here done this?