Topic: Alpha Technology Litecoin (Scrypt) ASIC Miner Order Batch 1 Now! - page 76. (Read 529056 times)

News from the front


Anyone else smell the desperation in that email. I hear the death knell toll for Alpha. Offering partial refunds to stave off full refunds from missing their Q3 deadline that's pretty hilarious. I guess its pretty clear Alpha have given up and are trying to get out of this with the shirts on their backs and avoid a prison cell.

With a greater potential to generate any level of heat, than AT gear right now.

Funny..because those are toasters.

And like the past few photo updates, it too is a departure from what everyone paid for, even in physical appearance.

I heard it can do 1000 khashbrowns/sec

That is a good intimidation.

I wanted to capture this before it gets deleted: From Mick on the Alpha T forum: "I had a a few Friends  in Manchester go to the Alpha office  The place has been abandoned for months (phone disconnected, fl mail piled up in the doorway). The general consensus from the the local people and businesses is that Alpha are a bunch of crooks and their customers have been scammed.

Mubasher Akram ... if I do not have my order to 2 October
or my money is completely with me again.
  then some of my Albanian friends are in England begin to seek you.

consider yourself lucky if you
  the police found earlier."

For anyone who hasn't heard, some KNC Titan units have apparently trickled into customer hands (elsewhere on BCT). Customer order statuses are beginning to change from 'paid' to 'processing'.

Processing->Shipped is usually fairly quick.

It would appear, Alpha has failed. Again.

But do we have to keep saying again? I mean it's the norm?

ROFLMAO. Not that I (publicly) condone violence but that made me laugh hard.

smash his teeth in.

I wonder what you have to do have the judgement enforced.  Any idea?

Yep, mine was a Barclaycard also.  They were good about the whole thing.  The rep laughed outright at this whole "you're a business" claim being made by Alpha and said "oh no, they can't do that."  They asked me to send supporting docs and bada-bing, bada-boom a few days later the provisional credit showed up.

When PayPal pushed back I had to resend some of the same stuff to rebut their "you are a business" tripe, but that was the end of it.  The whole thing was pretty painless.  Took maybe an hour to put the docs together and maybe 20 minutes on the phone presenting the whole thing to their fraud dept, but I'd say that was worth the amount I had tied up with these people.

Congrats on getting your money back from these guys.

Glad to hear that.

NEW PREPRODUCTION PHOTO VIPER





You can see the cooling fan, really close to the 400 core asic chips

I have received my full refund, via chargeback from Barclaycard.

I had paid through Paypal who refused to do anything due to being over 45 days. Barclaycard have refunded within a month with no questions asked.

I am so glad this is over.....

You're correct, I won in small claims but haven't received anything yet

As far as I am aware, they have not lost much [if anything] on legal cases. There is currently only one case on this thread of someone winning (and that was by default) through small claims - but no update as to the status of whether the refund was indeed given. My guess is that it wasn't/hasn't been [yet].

Honestly I don't think it is going to happen at all. 

they are bleeding money through chargebacks and lawsuits.  they have no updates with 2 weeks to supposed delivery and I haven't seen a photo of any component.  nothing in terms of a power supply, board, chip, not so much as a damn wingnut.  ditto on the assembly line.  nothing.

the dam has burst, IMO, in terms of customers successfully getting their money back, they are nowhere near shipping anything and they're going under.  I think they are busier with their lawyers than their suppliers right now and this one is going to fold without shipping anything.  ever.

This really is how I see it.  not trying to spread FUD.  I think they got in way over their heads, were long on arrogance and bullshit, but short on know how or anything that actually mattered, and they've totally flopped.  It's game over.

Hold on, don't forget Alpha-Ts esteemed VP of ASIC Development and Supply Chain Management (lol), who reports to Mohammad 'The Bashful' Akram on a daily basis.


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There is obviously another possible side story to what appears to be an imminent train wreck ...



~L)L~

not a chance in hell.  the last update was still of drawings.  I haven't seen a picture of a single component.  no reports of anything.

PayPal tried to fight my chargeback, but couldn't dispute the fact that they were in violation of The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008   http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1277/contents/made

they came with the argument that the DSR's didn't apply because I was a business, as these assholes tried to claim.  In my filing and in my response I again asserted that I wasn't a business because they damn well had to tell me I was a business before purchase.  Not telling us that is a misleading omission, even if they did intend that, which I don't believe they ever did in the first place.  I don't think the wankers even knew what the DSR's were and figured their TOS would be enough.  It's not.  The chargeback has been finalized and it's all over at this point for me.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1277/regulation/6/made

As soon as I mentioned that in an e-mail to Alpha even prior to filing with my CC company for a chargeback Alpha offered a 50% refund, and I mean within minutes I got some hastily clattered out message that they would do it for a good faith gesture or some such shit.

instantly gone was the canned response and cocky bullshit attitude I'd dealt with for days about their top shelf legal team and how I could just sod off.  all of that was gone in an instant. 

It's the gaping hole in their argument and totally neutralizes this stupid 'you're a business' claim before they can even make it.  don't forget to use that.


I think they tried to pull this shit without legal advice and their attorneys have told them that their goose is fucking cooked if people get onto that.  I know it scared the piss out of them and stopped PayPal in their tracks when they tried to jam it back to me.