thanks for the update mate. i wasn't getting responses from Chloe lately and was starting to worry... anyway extra boost and good design are worth waiting couple more weeks so that we don't waste another month returning defective units.. i also hope they give us early buyers more head start so that we can at least get back most of what we invested by the time mass production hits the market... please check with her if inno still remembers their promise to early buyers about leeway in that sense...
I just received an offer to purchase an A4 from a Inno reseller on Alibaba for shipment within 15-20 days. The price was $2400, including a power supply, and shipping was extra.
That's an excellent development in that Inno now appears to be making promises to resellers of the A4 for availability.
The two resellers I've been in contact with previously would not take pre-order money for the A4.While it indicates that pre-order buyers are not getting any "leeway" per above as far as mining time exclusivity, it does appear they are getting preferential price treatment. Assuming a $120 retail price for a noisy server PSU, that leaves the base unit price at $2280, a full $480 higher than the pre-order price.
This is potentially GREAT news for Titan owners because if the new retail price of the base unit is now closer to $2300, that will extend the value of their investment. Working with published specs, the recent sale of a 300MH Titan on ebay was $9.3/MH and if the 280MH A4 is closer to $2300, that raises the price to $8.1/MH!
Ebay has long established the value of Titans at $8-10/MH, so Inno knows this is the consumer market price.
It will be interesting to see what they provide in the form of bulk discounts for larger operations.