Sheesh... people need to read what he wrote
c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y.
We are receiving orders from chip purchasers other than our own 6 batches, and will not be holding any components in reserve for those that have purchased chips from us.
Translation- if you have ordered chips and only chips, that does NOT reserve any other components for you UNTIL you order assembly. When you order assembly, you are buying those components at that time. His point was to light a fire under your asses to order assembly ASAP, not to say that he's going to shaft all his customers.
Give him a little credit, here!
I guess we are Lost in Translation (interesting movie hah)... I can see where your going with how you interpreted this, there appears to be 2 different ways to read the statement, one of which requires assumptions. We just need SB to clear it up.
I see myself as a 'chip purchaser' that purchased chips from SB... so the 2nd sentence does apply to me (and everyone in this group buy) and implies that parts are not reserved. With that in mind, combined with the knowledge that Zefir has chips, and that SB will be receiving those chips for anyone from that group that purchased assembly with LSD... it leads me to believe SB has changed his stance and has decided not to make Zefir's chip purchasers wait.
If you are accurate, the statement should have been "We are receiving orders from chip purchasers other than our own 6 batches, and will not be holding any components in reserve for those that have purchased chips from us unless assembly payment has been completed."
I do hope you are correct though, and that once assembly is paid for - your parts are reserved. Which is how it should be, and I have every reason to believe SB will straighten it out one way or the other. Had I of read the statement the way you interpreted it, I probably wouldn't have made as many posts here, but would have just emailed to double-check.
If he really needs the assembly payments to come in, I assume it would be in SB's best interest to fix the statement so that people can make the assembly purchase.