I don't think its all tied up in flawed hardware. Remember, they already said that they didn't purchase enough power supplies. Which means they didn't even use our money to even buy the components that they should have bought months and months ago! If the thought process was "well we want to get the prototype up first" , then they would not have bought all the power supplies, cases, cages, backplanes, etc. So they would have money to return.
Also, if they did have all the parts, they should have shipped all the kits quickly ! After all they said that the only missing piece was the power supply!
I paid via wire transfer and AMT has already stated they don't "keep" bitcoins but change it to USD immediately. So the deflation of BTC should not have hurt them.
They probably used our money to buy new houses, cars and partied with the rest.
I agree completely. They are buying parts to finish these miners on a one-off basis. Now we're supposed to believe that all the hold-ups were due to PSU's being unavailable/sold out? Pfffft! What a joke, they should have bought X amount of PSU's late last year after X amount of people pre-ordered miners. Just another lie brought to you by Joshua Zipkin.
Example: If 5 people threaten lawsuit, AMT buys 5 PSU's, scrambles to put the 5 miners together, and send them out. As for the rest of 'non-complaints', well that's money in Joshua's pocket. They will likely never see their miner. As for the rest of you fools opting for "DIY KITS" that are lacking PSU's, cables and who knows what else - congratulations, that's more free money for Joshua that he would've had to use on buying more parts to complete these miners.
Not to mention the $160 shipping upgrades that were paid as well. I can tell they really used that $160 upsale on shipping to package and expedite these miners (sarcasm).
They never bought all the hardware needed to plan on fulfilling X amount of miners ordered, because they never PLANNED on fulfilling all orders.
This is called being a thief.
I have to agree with you here. The lack of planning is obvious.
AMT seems to react only when there is a complaint lauched. Otherwise, they will ignore their customer until they start making noise. Notice how we keep on seeing new folks arriving in this thread asking what happened to their order.