I think that noone here said it was a bs... If you need money fast your best option is to sell shares of the Avalon and cash out (maybe 100-125btc). If you wait until it arrives, you can sell it for 150-200, I guess.
I personally have no faith in the roi of these units, I'm not sure about anything anymore... I can only hope that when Avalon decided to delay to mine themselves they somewhat knew what would happen to the difficulty, I hope that they have some model, that they have insider info from bfl/helveticminer/100th and that somehow in that model the roi of these units is positive. This is my only hope.
What evidence do you have that they mined with these machines?
There is no evidence other than circumstantial evidence. I actually think Kano summed that up pretty well after he was repeatedly asked to back up his accusations.
I think someone receiving a unit (you know the ones that were conveniently shipped just before Yifu went to the Bitcoin conference) that was full of dust is VERY troubling. Dust blowing in would only be around the fan holes, not spread through a machine and he also showed that is arrived tightly wrapped in plastic (so it did not sneak in while it was in the box).
That FPGAminer says two of his units (the black ones) are clean and only one is dusty (the aluminum one) is a bit of a relief but only time will tell.
It would have been helpful if Avalon actually updated people when they knew that their last updated statement was going to be false.
