***Thank you to everyone who entered to receive a Synik for review. The window in which to enter to receive a Synik for review has closed.***
We’ve long known that the bag overviews/reviews (text, photo, video) provided by our volunteer Forum moderators are super useful to you guys when you’re trying to figure out if a bag is right for you or not.
In an effort to get even more points of view out here on the Forums in advance of our last major pre-order/debut (the Luminary), we gave away several bags to randomly chosen Forum members who pledged to author an overview/review and post it here on the Forums. That, we think, worked out great: you can read the resulting user reviews of the Luminary here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.)
We’d like to do this again for our next pre-order/debut which is tentatively scheduled for sometime in August.
The details:
What we’re giving away is a different edition of the Synapse — named the Synik — to seven Forum members (to be clear: we’re giving away 7 bags total) randomly chosen by @Countron (a computer program) to members who:
***Thank you to everyone who entered to receive a Synik for review. The window in which to enter to receive a Synik for review has closed.***
We continually debate whether to do this kind of thing because:
Pro = Everyone can benefit from Forum community reviews!
Con = Because we’re only able to give away seven bags total, the majority of people won’t be able to get a bag and some people might feel left out (even though the computer will be choosing who gets the bags!)
Ultimately, the pro outweighed the con with the early Luminary reviews, and so we’re going to try this experiment again: if you have feedback for us about this, or how it works, let us know here or send it to [email protected] Our hope is that even those who aren’t selected to be given a bag will be glad for those who did get one and will find the reviews useful.
P.S. Our Seattle Factory Showroom is open this Saturday 07/20 from 10am - 2pm, and we'll have Syniks on hand for people to look at if they'd like.
We’ve long known that the bag overviews/reviews (text, photo, video) provided by our volunteer Forum moderators are super useful to you guys when you’re trying to figure out if a bag is right for you or not.
In an effort to get even more points of view out here on the Forums in advance of our last major pre-order/debut (the Luminary), we gave away several bags to randomly chosen Forum members who pledged to author an overview/review and post it here on the Forums. That, we think, worked out great: you can read the resulting user reviews of the Luminary here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.)
We’d like to do this again for our next pre-order/debut which is tentatively scheduled for sometime in August.
The details:
What we’re giving away is a different edition of the Synapse — named the Synik — to seven Forum members (to be clear: we’re giving away 7 bags total) randomly chosen by @Countron (a computer program) to members who:
- Already have a Synapse 19 or 25, or who had wanted to get one but wished it had a clamshell main compartment zipper opening or a dedicated spot for a laptop.
- Speaking of the clamshell main compartment zipper and that dedicated spot for a laptop: we want to make sure these bags go to people who are excited about and wanted those two features. (Note: these are not the only features that are different in the Synik.)
- Can post a text + photo (video is optional) review of the bag they receive in the week between when the pages debut and the pre-order opens. Again, that’ll be sometime in August; we’ll let you know the specific date. You don’t need to show us your review before you post it. We'd like you to post your review in the Bag Reviews sub-Forum.
- Will author a review that includes what works for them about the design as well as what doesn’t work for them.
- Will ask us (Nik, Darcy, and Tom) questions they have about the design, or questions they may have about why we included certain features but not others. This back-and-forth is super helpful to us.
- Is able to post at least an initial review/overview by early August.
***Thank you to everyone who entered to receive a Synik for review. The window in which to enter to receive a Synik for review has closed.***
We continually debate whether to do this kind of thing because:
Pro = Everyone can benefit from Forum community reviews!
Con = Because we’re only able to give away seven bags total, the majority of people won’t be able to get a bag and some people might feel left out (even though the computer will be choosing who gets the bags!)
Ultimately, the pro outweighed the con with the early Luminary reviews, and so we’re going to try this experiment again: if you have feedback for us about this, or how it works, let us know here or send it to [email protected] Our hope is that even those who aren’t selected to be given a bag will be glad for those who did get one and will find the reviews useful.
P.S. Our Seattle Factory Showroom is open this Saturday 07/20 from 10am - 2pm, and we'll have Syniks on hand for people to look at if they'd like.
#readingcomprehension. Regardless, I'm always excited to see new TB designs! I hope this one's a home run!!
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