Topic: ASICMiner USB group buy- orders closed, pay for extra! - page 34. (Read 165799 times)
I gave Arklan almost $30 for postage (4 units) and the best you could do is first class mail? I'm disappointed.
Is there a consensus on the best miner to use with these?
My tracking now says that my package will get here Monday. 
So... my USB's were sent "First-Class Package Service" for several days when I entered my tracking number... nothing showed up... Now under status I see "Electronic Shipping info Received" with a date of May 31, 2013. ...what does this mean? Does this mean they JUST started to send it on my way? I assumed at first this posting method just did not have tracking.
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
It means you've discovered that USPS tracking is useless
This is true all of the time and not just with these shipments. Mostly it's only useful after the fact to confirm delivery has happened. In my experience, it is almost never useful in understanding what is happening mid-delivery.USPS told me it would be delivered on Friday, and I received it on Thursday. So... I agree, USPS tracking is virtually useless.
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So... my USB's were sent "First-Class Package Service" for several days when I entered my tracking number... nothing showed up... Now under status I see "Electronic Shipping info Received" with a date of May 31, 2013. ...what does this mean? Does this mean they JUST started to send it on my way? I assumed at first this posting method just did not have tracking.
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
Yes, you will probably see them Tuesday or Wednesday. Once they are accepted and processed the actual expected delivery will show up.
I may cry...
So... my USB's were sent "First-Class Package Service" for several days when I entered my tracking number... nothing showed up... Now under status I see "Electronic Shipping info Received" with a date of May 31, 2013. ...what does this mean? Does this mean they JUST started to send it on my way? I assumed at first this posting method just did not have tracking.
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
It means you've discovered that USPS tracking is useless
This is true all of the time and not just with these shipments. Mostly it's only useful after the fact to confirm delivery has happened. In my experience, it is almost never useful in understanding what is happening mid-delivery. So... my USB's were sent "First-Class Package Service" for several days when I entered my tracking number... nothing showed up... Now under status I see "Electronic Shipping info Received" with a date of May 31, 2013. ...what does this mean? Does this mean they JUST started to send it on my way? I assumed at first this posting method just did not have tracking.
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
Yes, you will probably see them Tuesday or Wednesday. Once they are accepted and processed the actual expected delivery will show up.
So... my USB's were sent "First-Class Package Service" for several days when I entered my tracking number... nothing showed up... Now under status I see "Electronic Shipping info Received" with a date of May 31, 2013. ...what does this mean? Does this mean they JUST started to send it on my way? I assumed at first this posting method just did not have tracking.
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
(glances over at his lonely Raspberry Pi)
wait a sec, is this groupbuy active?
No. CanaryInTheMine is running several, but it looks like the 3rd has ended and the 4th hasn't started yet. I'd watch his recent posts and wait for him to open the 4th group buy in the next few days.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/canaryinthemine-18614
stupid question, disregard, i thought this was the active one b/c it didn't have closed in the title...
wait a sec, is this groupbuy active?
negative. i'll go change the subject line, now that you mention it.
wait a sec, is this groupbuy active?
oh, and on that note: all the ones i have DO work fine, so no worries on that front.
Arklan is going to need those extras to pay for his Fedex bill. 
Last I heard, Friedcat accepts returns in bunches of 10, but if there aren't 10 defectives before the six months is up, then Arklan is stuck with the dead ones. Perhaps he should be mining with all of them to weed out the early defectives.
You can't expect anything from the mining. You get no perks for being a participant in this group buy. All you can expect is a working replacement for your dead ones. This means you shouldn't expect a brand new pristine device for your burnt out one.
Last I heard, Friedcat accepts returns in bunches of 10, but if there aren't 10 defectives before the six months is up, then Arklan is stuck with the dead ones. Perhaps he should be mining with all of them to weed out the early defectives.
You can't expect anything from the mining. You get no perks for being a participant in this group buy. All you can expect is a working replacement for your dead ones. This means you shouldn't expect a brand new pristine device for your burnt out one.
Will there be another one of these group buys?
not from me, at least for a few weeks, so probably not at all.
There already are. Currently open.
Look and yet shall find.
Look and yet shall find.
Will there be another one of these group buys?
i haven't the slightest idea what to do with them 6 months from now, post warranty. obviously, i'd like to keep them (i mean, duh.) but right now i just want ot decompress from all this and think it over carefully.
and yea, as robocoder said, there's alreayd two i know of which are bad and being replaced.
also: wait - i've supposed to have made near half a coin a day!? ...ok, ozcoin is broken.
and yea, as robocoder said, there's alreayd two i know of which are bad and being replaced.
also: wait - i've supposed to have made near half a coin a day!? ...ok, ozcoin is broken.
arklan should keep it with the USBs i think, cause he was a group buy owner.
Others will say lotery will be fine cause they want a chance to have one more USB.
will be fair if group owner keeps it
Others will say lotery will be fine cause they want a chance to have one more USB.
will be fair if group owner keeps it
The extra 19 aren't perk units, the retail 1.99 BTC price includes a 6 month warranty as per above. I wouldn't expect to get back used equipment after exercising a warranty return. If he is going to mine with the groups warranty units and keep the profits in addition to his original payment great, but it would be in good form to throw something back to the group.
Also, if a unit is defective, doesn't Arklan return them to friedcat for a replacement? Or is that only after the 19 units are exhausted?
I think he should lotto them after 6 months. There's a spreadsheet of buyers ... one entry per user. Use some external random site based on bitcoin, like what has been used in the past, so it's very clear who won.
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I like this idea, expect 1 entry per USB stick purchased.
The issue is in 6 months some people wont want a USB stick, when others might. Thats why I suggest an internal auction and then split the profits from that auction per usb stick purchased.
That's easy to solve. If you win, and you don't claim it after 7 days, it goes back into a drawing.
We don't know how many will be left after 6 months anyhow.
M
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