So h-boards are back in stock with 250 count... where's the shipments?
Wow, I literally hit Save about 30 seconds ago...yes I have a few extra H-cards of the old type that arrived. Since I don't the M-boards for them, they are only useful for filling out your V1 or V2 M-boards. Buy them now, and they will ship immediately.
Production is cranking for the next-gen boards, but I haven't received any shipping notifications yet. I expect to see something in the next day or two...when product is on the way I'll give an update.
i have not yet gotten my store credit for august delay. push that through and i'll probably buy a board.
however, a price drop to $400 would be appropriate i think. $500 is fairly steep at this point
Agree. Once pre-orders are filled and have in-stock, why are the h-board prices of version 1 not being adjusted and still cost the same as initially announced??? It's only a week from November by the time those cards are delivered anyway. Doesn't make sense. At this point, they must carry around a 70% margin on those cards while the ROI on those cards for miners must be around 10%, if anything. In other words, at a price that neglects reality bitfury is sucking almost every single drop of value both in BTC terms and in relation to other competitive products delivered this month like KNC. I agree their price of those cards shouldn't exceed $400.
The h-boards will now return approximately $300 in their useful lifetime given the recent increase in value of BTC. Shortly after the first of November, that will have dropped by almost 50%.
Don't say that too loud otherwise they'll even increase the price to $600 without caring about new reality ;-)
Well, the first of November is the same as the end of this week from a difficulty standpoint. (That's assuming they impeccably ship immediately), erasing 40% of your profits as soon as you open the door to the UPS guy, which WAAYYY offsets any temporary BTC volatility gain. Remember the adage "cash is king"? Well, in the BTC world difficulty is king and will always trump any BTC growth.
As long as there are mining profits, difficulty will continue to grow at not at 30% but at 40% or 45% per jump which we are about to witness. Hence, only suckers will buy any existing h-board inventory at $500. Sure, they are "the only available in-hand stock play in town" but who cares if they are draining every single drop of your blood anyway.
Do you honestly think the immense price drop from $23.5 to $8k for 400 gh kits in only 2 months was really only based on recovering overhead and fixed cost and achieving economies of scale? That initial price was fundamentally based on how much they could take from your profits. They had limited manufacturing capacity so it's not like they could have sold more if they had offered lower prices, hence it's not like "other miners would have taken your profits anyway" as the typical argument some sputter.
