I have been thinking about this and first I thought: it would have been easy to prevent this by letting the distributors know in advance how many they would get. Easy peasy. But is it ?? What if they allocate 10 to distro A and then 7 to distro B and so on, and then distro A sells 5 and distro B sells 15 ??

That would give also a lot of skewed perception. So in a way JJP did a great job of making something that a lot of people want, but now they get burned for making such a great machine ??

Also I strongly believe after reading this whole thread that the distributors just oversold and assumed they would get enough machines. You know what they say about assuming anything.... I do not see any distributors here or anywhere else posting their story. Says enough.

Limited is limited. Your great distributor only did what they want to do the most, sell machines. I really respect the ones that told people to wait and put them on a list. If they all did that, this thread would not have been here.

Fair enough, but the problem of allocation would stay the same. The whole situation just proved that there is no prediction possible. Wonka was also very much hyped up, but anyone can buy a Wonke CE today if they want. Market is just too small to get big data on it to predict stuff better.

That is only your personal perception as you did not get one. If you would have gotten one, you would probably also be crying wolf if JJP would make more than the 500. In case there is a limitation on a product, you will always piss off the people that want one but not get one.