I emailed Wil less than a week ago. 3 days later he said he had one more left. Now, 5 days after contacting him I'm the proud purchaser of a T12 popplock - and I still can't believe it. There are so many variables. Puzzles come and go. He sold all the ones he had, then he got some more and bumped up the cost. But I'm the furthest from knowing how Wil/Rainer operated this sale. I know others had emailed him around the same time but didn't hear back. But I also messaged him weeks before this about unrelated puzzle questions.
It's a black art. Nothing is guaranteed. I can see where it's frustrating, hell I still can't even find a purple, gold, black, or red revomaze. I think it's probably harder to find these revomazes than a popplock
. What I can say is that the puzzle community for the most part is great and a good group of people to be a part of. I'm honestly incredibly happy to be part of this group. Sometimes it doesn't work out. Ha, just ask Eric from Cubic Dissection about how my idiotic remarks almost got me black listed. I know in the grand scheme of things I've gotten lucky more often than not. But regardless of what happens, most everyone I know here tries to do the best to accommodate everyone in this community. Unfortunately it seems that when designers/collectors are busy, preoccupied, or unable to accommodate everyone that they can come across as arrogant or rude.
I'm just hoping to find some rare revomazes and solve puzzles with some other eclectic solvers that I can hopefully call friend. Wow that got emo quick. My bad.