The OP is not true, the Pandora is very much alive, has a very active community, and is rather easy to purchase. There were two main shops (not counting secondary distributors depending on these shops for supply), one based in the UK and one based in Germany. The Germany shop is well run and always has supply to fulfill orders, whereas the UK organization was spectacularly mismanaged, to say the least. The issue mainly impacted those original pre-orders made via the UK organization. Those customers were strung along for years, and many still don't have the Pandora that they ordered.