Just cancelled my Rift pre-order, starts to smell a bit facebooky and my life desperately need less facebook, not more.
I know, tin foil hat-ville next station, but since we passed 1984 in the 90's we could use more tin-foil in the populus.
This has also been partly because local (this side of the border) stores have started taking orders for the Vive (Oculus is a complete no show around here) buying locally has also some very appealing benefits for me, for instance I get full coverage of our Norwegian consumer law, which quite honestly alone is good enough reason to live here and pay the taxes not to mention the free health care. Free health care is good.
In short if a device breaks within five years they (the seller) is required to either repair, or replace the device at virtually no cost to me.
And the price, when I'm looking at possible self import I run the numbers looking at the worst possible case, so feared the Vive would cost nearly 13,000 Kr after all taxes etc etc, and an absolute worst possible case of course, which doesn't seem to be the case.
Anyhoo that would be about 1400 Euro. I have however paid 9500 Nok for the vive now comes to just about 1000 eur, which still is quite a lot for such a silly thing but you know I'm not giving my money to facebook.
Here's hoping the readability and performance issue get's sorted soon