The loaner was a misunderstanding. The 8k to 5k+ credit is for backed/paid for headsets not loaners.
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Oh he was around remember he used to be a backer then. 
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I feel like everytime I come back to the forums I read another reason to never support Pimax…
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The $100 is not a coupon or voucher, it is money that Pimax has been holding onto until we could use in the store. It is credit for whatever the customer wants to use it on. It is money that Pimax profited off of by selling the 8Ks for more than the $100 dollar difference. It is money that Pimax has used to finance the next iterations of the headsets.
After profiting from our patience you now want to tell us how we can use this money? Could we get somebody else from Pimax in here to clear this up?
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That’s not fair at all… When we downgraded you Pimax said that we can use that coupon with any accessories created by pimax but not 3rd party ones.
Many of us have downgrade for that…
We are happy with our headset, so we don’t need plan a or b or c or z… So what? We changed for a headset less expensive… And have a 100 dollars discount useless? Just be fair… You pay less for 5k+ that’s why you sell it less. We changed so we cost less to you…
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Found this in another thread. Sounds like PimaxUSA is saying that the downgrade coupon can only be used for the 8k+ or 8kx. Disappointing.
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Aww man, I really wanted an 8KX…
Xunshu said it was for all backers who accepted the downgrade.
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It’s not a coupon, it’s our money!
So if we don’t spend 700-1000$ more we lose our money?
Shame on you!
Edit: we don’t lose it, you steal it from us!
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The loaner is not a downgrade. Now if you opted to downgrade the 8kX to the 5k; I’d hope you’d get more than a $100 credit.
Now if you opted at the time to pay extra to keep loaner & switched to 5k then yes you’d qualify for $100 credit.
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What a shame… Fool us over and over again…
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I am not arguing any of that with you. Someone specifically asked “do 8KX backers who chose the 5K+ as a loan unit also get the $100 voucher” and Xunshu specifically replied to them “yes, 8kx backers get the same benefits”
I saved the link; https://community.openmr.ai/t/discussion-updated0920-pimax-8k-progress-update/8454/11
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! This was a post by Xunshu who was a pimax employee (head of marketing?) and its now been edited to make it look like some random person.
This is the original thread of conversation;
Xunshu (pimax):
Most X backers prefer to receive 8K / 5K+ first.
When X ready, they will have the chance to upgrade to X.
Talking about 8K for loan here.
Burstingtops;
If you are an 8K / X backer and decide to switch to 5K+, we will provide you $100 coupon to purchase accessories (modules etc.) in our online store.
8KX backers will receive a $100 coupon if they borrow the 5K+ instead of the 8K?
Xunshu (pimax):
Yes, an X backer enjoys the same rights of an 8K backer, except they can upgrade 8K/5K+ to X as soon as X becomes available.
I really can’t believe that Pimax are going back through their own communications and editing/deleting/reassigning stuff to make it look like they never made certain statements. This is completely messed up.
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You want something for nothing. It was obviously a misunderstsnding. Otherwise I accepted the downgrade but didn’t take it. Where is my $100 credit.
As many had opted to pay to keep loaner; the question was valid. But for those not paying to keep it is not. I will be frank that is greedy & as greedy as 8k ppl whom complained 5k pledgerd got a free upgrade & 8k pledgers who stick with 8k got nothing.
I remember the confusion on the loaner.
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If this is true and they are actively trying to change things like this…
I just don’t understand how Pimax is doing so much to destroy their own credibility when the forum is blasting signals their trustworthiness is so massively important.
I guess they are making a really big amount of money to feel this behaviour is okay
https://community.openmr.ai/u/anon23564932/activity
Why is Xunshu’s account being anonimized? Is is an attempt to delete it maybe?
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Let’s recap.
On the KS campaign the 5k variants were 100$ less compared to the 8k variants.
When the 5k+ came out for all 5k backers Pimax offered the difference as a coupon so literally the 8k backers became 5k backers with the 100$ coupon. It was said the coupon can be used for accessories so that many many backers would do the change.
Anything else but using the 100$ coupon on any accessory item in the store is not acceptable. If @PimaxUSA limits the coupons to a certain “upgrade” package, that’s a different story… but hey - these upgrade packages were not even in far sight when the coupon was defined. There must be the option to use it in the store on non of such packages…
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As I said, I’m not arguing that point with YOU. The statment by pimax was very clear, it was asked multiple times and the SAME statement was made by board level pimax staff on multiple occaisions, pimax are now trying to delete those statements.
If that doesn’t scream “dodgy as F” then I don’t know what does.
I gave my money to pimax over 2 years ago and still don’t have any of my backer rewards, not my headset, nor any of the stretch goals. They said things and did things and bit by bit they keep taking away what they promised. You might not be upset about that but I certainly am. I took certain actions like giving pimax money and accepting a downgraded loan unit based on statements by pimax staff, pimax are now trying to change the deal and remove things.
I also raised a ticket at the time and got the same response - that I would be getting the voucher. I don’t care if you think thats fair or not, it IS what I was told by pimax and you have no place getting in to that.
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This is the ‘re-writing history’ tactic trademarked by ‘You Know Who’.
Yes not good to argue a ridiculous idea. I think this was clarified with 8kX Backers in a PM as I organised a couple for them; not sure why you didn’t ask to be included.
I am 100% certain all 8kX backers would have opted to get a free $100 for nothing on switching a complimentary loaner.
There is maybe real things to complain about the deals offered. But your case is just greedy expecting something for nothing.
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This is daylight robbery…i downgraded to the 5k from the 8k and was told i have $100 to spend on what i want. I dont want to upgrade as am happy with my 5k+. So essentially i paid the same price as the 8k backers for a 5k+ unit. This is actually unlawful , you have basically stole $100 from us and im outraged. This needs rectifying immediately or myself and many others will wash our hands with you. Disgusting
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Mmmmmm…radio silence. We need an answer this is totally unacceptable
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