Topic: Best Pre-Order Option NOW - page 3. (Read 5551 times)

KnCMiner have forged themselves a great reputation with the successful Jupiter (Saturn and Mercury) delivery.  Their mantra is "under-promise and over-deliver" and with Jupiter they basically pulled it off.  Jupiter was originally advertised as a 350 GH/s miner, then upped to 400 GH/s... then 450 GH/s (with no price rise).  When delivered, most Jupiters are 550 GH/s.  You can imagine how exiting these news releases were for pre-order customers!  They did miss their September delivery deadline by one or two weeks (it became an October delivery), and I know that each week is forever in Bitcoin mining... however my opinion is that they basically delivered on time.  Yes the packaging could have been better, the firmware wasn't really ready (it's good now though), but they delivered and that's what people will remember.

I'm a happy Jupiter owner, and I've got my pre-order in for Neptune.  I won't be surprised if it delivers over-spec, so it will be interesting to see!

I also have a batch 1 pre-order for a 2 TH/s Bitmine CoinCraft Rig.  I've got a good feeling about Bitmine, and I'm looking forward to receiving the unit.  Shipping last week of December, so I'll get it first week of January.  "Shipped" is when the courier picks it up.  I allow an extra week for international delivery plus customs processing.  For example, KnCMiner shipped my Jupiter on 16 October... I got it on 25 October.

I'm sure there are other great companies out there... Bitmine and KnCMiner just happen to be the ones that I chose.

I have also the very same question as OP. I have been out since my purchase of Avalon B2, so I have no good info on these more or less new companies.

If someone could support experience with these companies with links so that I could read the full story, it would be great.

First question that comes to my mind - if there are more companies that are proven to deliver, how is that KNC comes with price that is 150-250% of competitors?

Black Arrow has delivered?  Sweet.  I should look into those guys.

KnC is known to deliver!  Black Arrow is know to deliver!

CoinTerra seems to deliver this month or if there's a delay, 1st part of January.

If you can put hands on the smaller ASIC now but buy in quantities is one of another options I think.

Example 180GH x 12 = 2160 GH in just a few days.  

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-3rd-round-auction-for-the-antminer-s1-dual-blades-120-units-24-hours-355755 (7 hours left in this auction)

Yesterday, my group buy shipped out 59 of the above for 4.25 BTC each.

Alright, so enough waiting. I need to place an pre-order for the Feb/March+ miners coming out. I need 4-6TH, so here are my best options as of this moment..

1.) Black Arrow Prospero X-3 2TH: $6k ea, est shipping Feb 24th (would buy 3 for around 18k = 6TH)

2.) BITMINE Coincraft Rig 2TH: $12k ea, est shipping Feb 2nd week (would buy 2 for $12k = 4TH)

3.) KNC Neptune 3TH: 13k ea, shipping Q1/Q2 so April/May?? (would buy 2 for $26k = 6TH)

4.) CoinTerra TerraMiner IV 2TH: 6k ea, April Batch (would buy 3 for $18k = 6TH)

The main priorities obv are, Trusted company, Fastest shipping, and Price per miner.

So what do you guys thinks the best way to go? Thanks, appreciate it!