I don't see how the purchasing of these card initially funded their construction considering Softwarehut doesn't charge you for them until the card is in their hands and ready to ship. I ordered mine 3 weeks ago and it has finally shown up and they have shipped it my way, I wasn't charged for the card until tuesday of this week. If they were charging for preorders then I would say yes on the whole purchasing funding the cards. From what I understand from talking with the gentleman at Softwarehut is that there is only one person assembling these cards, and he's doing it pretty much by hand, that could explain the whole taking forever thing, I think.