Topic: ASICMiner USB group buy- orders closed, pay for extra! - page 58. (Read 165759 times)
Any updates for the second batch?
It would seem I drew the Priority Mail short straw.
it would seem the entire shipment went out priority, instead of those 10 and over going express. sigh. i told the girl at office depot to... argh.
i'm offering anyone of the effected buyers a .15 btc refund. just pm me and address.
It would seem I drew the Priority Mail short straw.
i sent ya one. have you checked your email?
That you did, my apologies. Apparently I chose to use one of my non-standard e-mails for this. See your PM.
also - guys with 10 or more: it's been brought to my attention that one such order got priority shipping, not express. i'm thinking that, despite my instructions, the office depot worker screwed up. if you guys could check to see if this is the case for you and let me know, i'd appreciate it. i'll figure out some sort of compensation if it's the case. probably a btc refund.
How do you propose we check? I'm sure I'm not the only one without a tracking number.
i sent ya one. have you checked your email?
also - guys with 10 or more: it's been brought to my attention that one such order got priority shipping, not express. i'm thinking that, despite my instructions, the office depot worker screwed up. if you guys could check to see if this is the case for you and let me know, i'd appreciate it. i'll figure out some sort of compensation if it's the case. probably a btc refund.
How do you propose we check? I'm sure I'm not the only one without a tracking number.
Can someone sell me one?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/330928861975?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649610!?
also - guys with 10 or more: it's been brought to my attention that one such order got priority shipping, not express. i'm thinking that, despite my instructions, the office depot worker screwed up. if you guys could check to see if this is the case for you and let me know, i'd appreciate it. i'll figure out some sort of compensation if it's the case. probably a btc refund.
Can someone sell me one?
+1 - running a group buy is headache prone as you'll need to satisfy everyone's whims.
Arklan has handled this remarkably well!
"It ain't over 'till it's over", but I think that the purchasers have also played a pretty big part in the success to this point as well. We put our money up amazingly quickly for one.
For two, I feel that it's been a fairly understanding and reasonable group given that we are in Bitcoin-land and the participants have been harvested from the bitcointalk.org forum.
For three, the thing was put together very quickly and with a lot of important questions unanswered (and un-asked for that matter.) Everyone, with the possible exception of me and a few others, have handled things with a fair amount of grace as the picture came into focus.
I'm surprised you and ~arklan have been so flexible in letting people shuffle and re-sell their positions. If you can keep things straight, I'll be thoroughly impressed. If I were designing such a thing, I believe I would try to make it either more fully automated (with a protocol for signing over stakes which involved specific formats and signatures) or a flat fee for any changes. Probably both.
received tracking number. Thanks arklan!!!
My group buy is still chugging along, if you're not going to run another one yourself, people can join my group then...
My group buy is still chugging along, if you're not going to run another one yourself, people can join my group then...
Thank you very much, Arklan! I certainly wouldn't want to deal with all of us.
Precisely why none of "us" ran a group buy! That's capitalism for you.
Just got my tracking number from Arklan! So, to recap:
- ASICMiner only sold these in lots of 300, which none of us could afford (or chose not to) individually, so we needed a group buy; none of us stepped up to organize this, but Arklan did
- Arklan's group buy was the first to complete, thus making us the first batch to ship, thus making us the first on earth to get to play with these
- Arklan has been pleasant and organized throughout
- While it is arguable that the first batch might not have been re-shipped as fast as humanly imaginable, that hypothetical loss of .013BTC revenue for one day -- we're talking a cup of coffee here -- isn't hurting any of the buyers -- especially taking into account how far ahead of the other group buys we are -- and the only person complaining is a guy who isn't in the first batch anyway, so it doesn't even effect him.
Thank you very much, Arklan! I certainly wouldn't want to deal with all of us.
- ASICMiner only sold these in lots of 300, which none of us could afford (or chose not to) individually, so we needed a group buy; none of us stepped up to organize this, but Arklan did
- Arklan's group buy was the first to complete, thus making us the first batch to ship, thus making us the first on earth to get to play with these
- Arklan has been pleasant and organized throughout
- While it is arguable that the first batch might not have been re-shipped as fast as humanly imaginable, that hypothetical loss of .013BTC revenue for one day -- we're talking a cup of coffee here -- isn't hurting any of the buyers -- especially taking into account how far ahead of the other group buys we are -- and the only person complaining is a guy who isn't in the first batch anyway, so it doesn't even effect him.
Thank you very much, Arklan! I certainly wouldn't want to deal with all of us.
+1 - running a group buy is headache prone as you'll need to satisfy everyone's whims.
Arklan has handled this remarkably well!
Just got my tracking number from Arklan! So, to recap:
- ASICMiner only sold these in lots of 300, which none of us could afford (or chose not to) individually, so we needed a group buy; none of us stepped up to organize this, but Arklan did
- Arklan's group buy was the first to complete, thus making us the first batch to ship, thus making us the first on earth to get to play with these
- Arklan has been pleasant and organized throughout
- While it is arguable that the first batch might not have been re-shipped as fast as humanly imaginable, that hypothetical loss of .013BTC revenue for one day -- we're talking a cup of coffee here -- isn't hurting any of the buyers -- especially taking into account how far ahead of the other group buys we are -- and the only person complaining is a guy who isn't in the first batch anyway, so it doesn't even effect him.
Thank you very much, Arklan! I certainly wouldn't want to deal with all of us.
- ASICMiner only sold these in lots of 300, which none of us could afford (or chose not to) individually, so we needed a group buy; none of us stepped up to organize this, but Arklan did
- Arklan's group buy was the first to complete, thus making us the first batch to ship, thus making us the first on earth to get to play with these
- Arklan has been pleasant and organized throughout
- While it is arguable that the first batch might not have been re-shipped as fast as humanly imaginable, that hypothetical loss of .013BTC revenue for one day -- we're talking a cup of coffee here -- isn't hurting any of the buyers -- especially taking into account how far ahead of the other group buys we are -- and the only person complaining is a guy who isn't in the first batch anyway, so it doesn't even effect him.
Thank you very much, Arklan! I certainly wouldn't want to deal with all of us.
yea, y'all suck!
i'm kidding, i'm kidding. overall it's gone well, though not perfectly.
Just got my tracking number from Arklan! So, to recap:
- ASICMiner only sold these in lots of 300, which none of us could afford (or chose not to) individually, so we needed a group buy; none of us stepped up to organize this, but Arklan did
- Arklan's group buy was the first to complete, thus making us the first batch to ship, thus making us the first on earth to get to play with these
- Arklan has been pleasant and organized throughout
- While it is arguable that the first batch might not have been re-shipped as fast as humanly imaginable, that hypothetical loss of .013BTC revenue for one day -- we're talking a cup of coffee here -- isn't hurting any of the buyers -- especially taking into account how far ahead of the other group buys we are -- and the only person complaining is a guy who isn't in the first batch anyway, so it doesn't even effect him.
Thank you very much, Arklan! I certainly wouldn't want to deal with all of us.
- ASICMiner only sold these in lots of 300, which none of us could afford (or chose not to) individually, so we needed a group buy; none of us stepped up to organize this, but Arklan did
- Arklan's group buy was the first to complete, thus making us the first batch to ship, thus making us the first on earth to get to play with these
- Arklan has been pleasant and organized throughout
- While it is arguable that the first batch might not have been re-shipped as fast as humanly imaginable, that hypothetical loss of .013BTC revenue for one day -- we're talking a cup of coffee here -- isn't hurting any of the buyers -- especially taking into account how far ahead of the other group buys we are -- and the only person complaining is a guy who isn't in the first batch anyway, so it doesn't even effect him.
Thank you very much, Arklan! I certainly wouldn't want to deal with all of us.
How is the second package from Friedcat? Any news on that? Or did I miss a previous post...
it's local, but arrived after they'd sent the trucks yesterday. i'll get it tuesday. and yes, i tried calling to see if i could pick it up. no good, were already closed last night, and not open at all today.
Thank you for the prompt update! See guys! Just calm down and everything will be ok! Good work Arklan, I am sure this has gotten a little stressful, but know that most of us really appreciate all the work you put into this.
I wonder... maybe if some units get lost in the mail, can you use the replacement units for that? Who knows... hopefully none are lost, and the majority that get sent out tuesday get full insurance.
If any do get lost, and you are put on the hook for them... I will be sure to donate a % of my mining to help bail you out.
if it comes up, i'll ask here about the warranty guys. course if it's a 20 pack that's lost... *shudder*
How is the second package from Friedcat? Any news on that? Or did I miss a previous post...
it's local, but arrived after they'd sent the trucks yesterday. i'll get it tuesday. and yes, i tried calling to see if i could pick it up. no good, were already closed last night, and not open at all today.
Thank you for the prompt update! See guys! Just calm down and everything will be ok! Good work Arklan, I am sure this has gotten a little stressful, but know that most of us really appreciate all the work you put into this.
I wonder... maybe if some units get lost in the mail, can you use the replacement units for that? Who knows... hopefully none are lost, and the majority that get sent out tuesday get full insurance.
If any do get lost, and you are put on the hook for them... I will be sure to donate a % of my mining to help bail you out.
How is the second package from Friedcat? Any news on that? Or did I miss a previous post...
it's local, but arrived after they'd sent the trucks yesterday. i'll get it tuesday. and yes, i tried calling to see if i could pick it up. no good, were already closed last night, and not open at all today.
first: i inadverterntly left another tab open with a thread (the asicminer one, actually) cause when i left i hadn't finished reading it.
spent the last few hours at, variously, the post office and office depot. post office... well, screwed me. i had tried this morning, for several hours, to print the shipping labels online so i could just drop them off and be done. for reasons unknown to me, that failed completely. i ended up going to the post office to try there- they handed me a pen to start writing the labels by hand. while standing. on my ankle. yea. not happening...
so i went to office depot, who can mail via USPS, and has a pick up... about 15 minutes ago, actually. and THEY were helpful and at least let me use their computer to input the data.
all packages marked as shipped are, well, shipped. i'll be emailing out the appropriate tracking info shortly.
an unexpected, and unexplained, hitch at office depot was shipping to canada. for reasons unknown to me, or the employee, we just couldn't get it to work. so, a force ninja, black lilac grant and sgrunger, i still have yours. they'll go out tuesday morning.
also, BIG note: for reasons unknown, the office depot system refused to allow insurance amounts in excess of 500 USD. i went ahead and mailed everything anyway, since i felt it was more important to get them out then delay till tuesday. if anything goes wrong in this regard, i suppose i'm on the hook. dear god, let nothing go wrong...
i think that's everything. i might (continue) to be slow to respond today, as i am likely going to take a nap...
oh, and:
Warranty Man, at your service! (apparently!) the above is exactly how i see it working. except for the "after 6 months lottery them" part... but then, that's me being greedy.
spent the last few hours at, variously, the post office and office depot. post office... well, screwed me. i had tried this morning, for several hours, to print the shipping labels online so i could just drop them off and be done. for reasons unknown to me, that failed completely. i ended up going to the post office to try there- they handed me a pen to start writing the labels by hand. while standing. on my ankle. yea. not happening...
so i went to office depot, who can mail via USPS, and has a pick up... about 15 minutes ago, actually. and THEY were helpful and at least let me use their computer to input the data.
all packages marked as shipped are, well, shipped. i'll be emailing out the appropriate tracking info shortly.
an unexpected, and unexplained, hitch at office depot was shipping to canada. for reasons unknown to me, or the employee, we just couldn't get it to work. so, a force ninja, black lilac grant and sgrunger, i still have yours. they'll go out tuesday morning.
also, BIG note: for reasons unknown, the office depot system refused to allow insurance amounts in excess of 500 USD. i went ahead and mailed everything anyway, since i felt it was more important to get them out then delay till tuesday. if anything goes wrong in this regard, i suppose i'm on the hook. dear god, let nothing go wrong...
i think that's everything. i might (continue) to be slow to respond today, as i am likely going to take a nap...
oh, and:
I'm sure arklan didn't foresee this at the beginning, but I do now see him as our point of contact for the six month warrentee period.
Specifically, like this:
1) One of 'ours' (i.e., one which has been delivered to an end user) dies.
2) We ship the dead one to arklan and he ships a working replacement in return.
3) When arklan has accumulated ten dead ones he ships that batch of ten to ASICMiner for replacement.
As compensation for this hassle, I see it as entirely fair / appropriate that arklan mine with the available spare parts / extras.
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After the six month period I suggest that all the ones which are extra / spare parts be lotteried off by single units to the participants of this group buy.
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In fact, I see it as preferable that the spare parts be used for mining. The failure mode we are primarily dealing with here is 'infant mortality'. After about a ninety day period of use the ones which are gonna die will have died.
Specifically, like this:
1) One of 'ours' (i.e., one which has been delivered to an end user) dies.
2) We ship the dead one to arklan and he ships a working replacement in return.
3) When arklan has accumulated ten dead ones he ships that batch of ten to ASICMiner for replacement.
As compensation for this hassle, I see it as entirely fair / appropriate that arklan mine with the available spare parts / extras.
--
After the six month period I suggest that all the ones which are extra / spare parts be lotteried off by single units to the participants of this group buy.
-- edit
In fact, I see it as preferable that the spare parts be used for mining. The failure mode we are primarily dealing with here is 'infant mortality'. After about a ninety day period of use the ones which are gonna die will have died.
Warranty Man, at your service! (apparently!) the above is exactly how i see it working. except for the "after 6 months lottery them" part... but then, that's me being greedy.
How is the second package from Friedcat? Any news on that? Or did I miss a previous post...
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