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:
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.
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.
Therefore, if you don't like the lottery idea I definitely wouldn't raise a stink. 
