I wouldn't call $5,400 a major purchase, but a lawyer also implies additional cost which is useless. When people pre-order cars worth much more than $5,400 they don't check the terms with lawyers so your argument is simply retarded. Next you will say that after a lawyer HF customers should've checked the stated performance terms with an ASIC designer and PCB designer to see if they can trust the company. This is class A bullshit.
$5k is enough to warrant spending $200 on a lawyer to make sure your interpretation of an ostensible offer is correct and legally enforceable.
The people who expected a windfall didn't want a lawyer to rain on their entitlement parade or otherwise disturb their precious confirmation bias. Just look how ugly people are being to me if you want evidence that folks will not easily let go of their free pony fantasies without a vicious fight. Disturb their free pony fantasy and out come the demands for revenge rape.
The fact you bring a purchase of a commonplace highly-regulated product like cars into a discussion about exotic ASIC pre-orders shows why you have been having so much difficulty understanding why Judge Montali didn't declare HF a scam, and instead let them continue their business under Chapter 11.
Ok. Now will you let this thread die since the company isn't selling anything?