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^ "hacked" Tom posting on 22 Jan - postings were of course removed

So this is based on the assumption that his account was not really hacked? Pure speculation then, nothing new...

His hacked account was rambling about how haters and trolls were giving him a bad name, and was the reason so many people were refunding. It was a blatant case of pass-the-buck whining, but all of his posts over the past day or two have been removed, and his account has been locked. 

Where did you read this? From his post linked above he takes full responsibility :

could be you.

Or.. or... it could just be Tom after all!  GREAT SCOTT!

Hold up there... as posted on similar thread,

"
Theymos thinks cablepair's email might be hosed. Refund announcement and forum wipe could be someone still fucking around.

TNO

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/off-topic/789-writing-style-comparison-cablepair-posts-2.html#post11483

"

Just history repeating itself, he had the form on a smaller scale for all to see, guessing how this was going to end with the hubris shown = it will be an inevitable fail, no surprise there at all

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75091.0;all

Take it with a grain of salt.  His dream's been shattered, he's overwhelmed, and he's not yet had any time away from the drama to develop some perspective.  It's probably a bit too soon to reasonably expect him to be able to take an objective look at what went wrong and why.

I think he's probably a bit hurt that when he announced the project was back on track he wasn't showered with support.

That's good news...

I find it interesting how Tom blames the community for the shutdown of the company.

Just to confirm, my order was 25 units, I requested a refund for the credit card transactions around the 11th Jan from Dave and I got the money back this morning in my online statements, I did loose a few percent on the $USD vs EUR exchange rate.

But at least they are keeping their word.

Look here: https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=1048.0

Tom has given up, but promised "EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER WILL BE REFUNDED. PERIOD."

Hey Scammer. Just out of curiosity, you seemed to be on pretty good terms with Tom back when he was setting up TNTMINING and A1BITCOINPOOL for you. Was the breakup really that bitter that you have two follow him around on another set of sockpuppet accounts when you've scammed way more from the community than Tom ever did?

Much love,
Me

Welcome to 4 days ago 

seems theirs a new update with bASIC

Dear Friends, Lovers, and Enemies,

First off. Sorry for the scare. and believe me it was a SCARE - we had to refund over 200k and we were happy to do it because we claimed from day one that we will honor any refund request until we go into production and we meant it. And  As crazy as fuck as it is to say so , we will sill honor it. We took multiple 20k+ refunds left and right without batting and eye lash because we believe in this project and we know we will be releasing our bASIC Bitcoin mining units sooner than everyone else, especially our good friends BFL.

Love us or hate us, I have some good friends who are original Bitcoin "old money" and they gave us the additional funding we need to finish the chip fab / packaging and take this thing into production. (THANK GOD!)

we WILL be shipping bASIC bitcoin mining devices in March 2013 and I am willing to put my own money against anyone who says otherwise.

The Design is done baby. The chips will be state-side as soon as Chinese New Year is over and for those who could not stomach the wait I don't blame you but I'm sorry to say you lost you place in line my friends.

March may seem a long time away as we all have ASIC blue balls right now, but its really not that far away, and I salute and congratulate all of you who have had the testicular fortitude to stick it out with us because you my friends will receive the ultimate reward. Sure Avalon may get some units out before the Chinese new year but that is sure to be a very limited number. On the other hand our assembly house has an unlimited assembly capacity and as soon as the Chinese new year ends we will have 16,000 freshly fabbed and packaged ASIC chips and we will be assembling those PCB's at FULL CAPACITY !We will be shipping ALL CURRENT ORDERS IN THE MONTH OF MARCH AND WE STILL HAVE ROOM FOR MORE ORDERS SO Get IN WHILE YOU STILL CAN! I stake my personal name and word on that. So hold on tight my friends because its going to be a wild ride in the month of March.

Now Let's Get ready to mine some serious coins
your friend always "cablepair"
Tom

Which may yield results for 3-4 weeks.  Clearly not enough.

i am still saying refund should be processed at the exchange rate at the time the refund was requested.

If I were him I'd be assembling every FPGA I could possible build with what parts I had left and start hashing to pay back the BTC that was already spent.

Well, I think you can answer this yourself.

still nothing from Dave... still no BTC refund.

regarding new info on btcfpga.com, makes me wanna stick it out, i mean at this point its ~30BTC cheaper for me to 'buy' one... or not have my refund processed.

is bASIC vaporware? should i stick it out (i paid via btc, will get f'd on refund) and wait for product?