Then take issue with the shipping courier. If you don't receive the goods then file a loss claim and make them reimburse you.
The goods are supposed to be picked up and delivered to me tomorrow. My concern is sabotage of the equipment by the other miner.
If you're concerned about it you could:
Have driver stay a couple minutes and watch you un-box to check for any signs of damage/tampering.If there is, tell the driver you refuse acceptance of the package and have them return it and start a damage claim.
If there isn't physical sign of damage and you're still paranoid about functionality of item you can film yourself, nonstop.
Film from receipt of package, unboxing, hooking up, and configuring pools and watching GUI statistics. If it doesn't work right from get go
you contact Bitmain and say it's DOA. They probably are tracking SN#'s (I would be). If they do then they can verify they are same parts.
Maybe you'll find an S3 in the box instead of an S7 - LOL.. Of course then you could also refuse the shipment as it's not what you were expecting.
If your going to do anything like make driver stay during setup I highly suggest calling supervisor with your worries, and get the backing of a supervisor. I can't imagine to many sitting there as you set it up even if it's just 10 minutes.
And also by doing this you will make your delivery guy chances are not to happy with you. If you deal with receiving many packages I always try to stay on good side of delivery guy when you can. You would be surprised if you are nice sometimes it pay's off.
I'm willing to bet it is a mistake on shipment they saw the large order you mention and assumed your box was one of them. Committing mail fraud as a carrier... not exactly worth doing for a S7. I think it was a screw up it sounds like for sure but sabotage.
Your option is either take package or mess with carrier for who knows how long and if they will side with you. You might call a supervisor and explain your worries and see what they do. But I doubt there is a whole lot besides taking it or letting them ship it back.
I just mean sabotage as in good chances my boxes were opened and inserted into the datacenter without looking at address label. When they have to package them back up, a dishonest person might throw their poor performers in my boxes to let me have to deal with warranty issues. Or perhaps they will even cause damage to reduce or cause problems for competition. I don't mean they colluded with the carrier.
My order was for more than five, their order was for hundreds. Easy to not even realize the mistake when unboxing that number. The question is, will they pick random machines to send me, or will I end up with the runts of the litter?
The good news is if they deal with in the hundreds, I'm willing to bet a RMA or boards is not a issue. Chances are Bitmain get's to them pretty quick. So I don't think they would take the time to pull 5 duds to send to you. But I see your point.
If you see they are opened and really do suspect that you can call supervisor and try to make sure the driver stay's. But setting up 5+ with driver sitting there chances are low. And again this is going to make you the drivers not so favorite client... so you would be between a rock and hard place if you suspect they are duds.
