@Pegaz - all these schemes are a gamble. You either give an unknown small company your money and hope for the best, or you keep your money in your possession, but take the risk that you may never get your hands on the item that may or may not get made. Of course, if you are not bothered about getting said item, then the choice is clear - keep you money. If you cannot afford to throw the money away, again, keep your money and don’t take the gamble.
There are lots of other ways of gambling, including buying a company or shares in one or more companies (anyone want to buy
Maplin? Or
Carillion shares? [I had some shares in Carillion as part of a share save plan, because at one time they owned a company that was my employer.]
Or you can place a bet on some event...
Sometimes you don’t even know that your life will be subject to a large gamble. Such as your employer going bust. I feel sorry for all the workers in the above two companies, where they had no say in events. They just got told that sorry, the company has no money and therefore has/will stop trading. Your employment has ended.
Some of these bets have a date (or date and time) when you will know if you have won or lost. But others don’t.
I have no more idea than anyone else if the ZX Spectrum Next cased computers will actually make it into the hands of backers. But the board only backers have received their boards. The updates from this project look to be far more informative and believable than those from the Vega+.
Of course, the delay is very frustrating and annoying. And as time goes on, backers will start to worry that it’s all going wrong. The longer the delay, the worse this worry will get.
Am I hopelessly optimistic? Probably. But I would rather have a positive outlook on life. But that’s just me
You and other people are perfectly entitled to have different opinions. I don’t have a problem with that.
Mark