I suspect that Mongoose's order system increments their order numbers by one for each order, maybe by twos as I don't have any odd numbered orders. With that in mind and taking into consideration that all the orders they received during this time were not only of B5 ships, they received a staggering amount of B5 orders.
Looking at the order numbers for my four orders between Feb 22 and March 27, there is a range of 78,678 between the first and fourth order. I don't remember when the announcement for the end of line sale started, but assuming the orders started out slow and picked up steam as they got closer to the April 1st date and there were probably a large number of last minute orders after the 27th, they most likely received well over 40,000 (maybe 80,000) orders in about one and a half months. If the average of those orders were in similar numbers to what I ordered, averaged about 50 ships and fighter bases per order, and lets say 30,000 of those were for B5 ships, you start see why they are so far behind on orders.
That is in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 ships/fighter bases ordered! I really suspected they were going to have really large orders, but I hadn't really sat down an looked at it until today when I was inquiring about by shipping address.
Now I'm just speculating with all this, but I wonder how close I actually am to their numbers?
Looking at the order numbers for my four orders between Feb 22 and March 27, there is a range of 78,678 between the first and fourth order. I don't remember when the announcement for the end of line sale started, but assuming the orders started out slow and picked up steam as they got closer to the April 1st date and there were probably a large number of last minute orders after the 27th, they most likely received well over 40,000 (maybe 80,000) orders in about one and a half months. If the average of those orders were in similar numbers to what I ordered, averaged about 50 ships and fighter bases per order, and lets say 30,000 of those were for B5 ships, you start see why they are so far behind on orders.
That is in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 ships/fighter bases ordered! I really suspected they were going to have really large orders, but I hadn't really sat down an looked at it until today when I was inquiring about by shipping address.
Now I'm just speculating with all this, but I wonder how close I actually am to their numbers?