This will never ship since they need the pre-orders for funding it and they will not get enough pre-orders due to their terrible track record.
For every one of you, there's a growing number of people who have received product from bfl and seen that it works as promised at a price point that's lower than their competitors. Rhe good news for people ordering their new product is that, yes so many people have been dissuaded by their prior experience that they won't order, meaning new orders for this product won't face nearly as long of backlogs. Also amusing is when people cry out "don't order this from bfl, it'll never earn back its investment" then advocate another suppliers chips that cost even more per hash, meaning they're even more unlikely to order achieve break even.
I received my jalapeño order as promised and was very impressed by it. Ultimately sold it on eBay. But at the time I told myself I'd have no problem ordering from them again if I ever delved into mining. That still stands, if I were to order a miner, without doubt it would be from bfl. Asicminers offerings are far too expensive to be a winning proposition, Avalon seems to have the same shipping difficulties and most of the rest of the crew seems to be offering promises at this point, and nothing else. But I'll stay far away from mining. I see no incentive to participate in this arms race. It's doing nothing for us but forcing continual reinvestment just to stay at the same exact place. Really pointless. What I wish is that we (to include myself) were creative enough to start actual bitcoin business's, and earn revenue elsewhere in the economy. We aren't though. So we're all chasing after one mining and blowing an awful lot of money for nothing.
Lets come up with a coin that's for certain resistant to asics. Then there's no more of this gaming the system. You mine, you earn based on the number of CPUs you can devote to the activity. Maybe that'll force all of us to think of ways outside of mining to actually create an economy that outsiders want to participate in, rather than mining away pining for a mass adoption one day.
Overall, this thread is quite enlightening.
And kind of sad. We want the world to use our money, but we can't come up with any real uses save for trading it for dollars. And when people come and offer new mining equipment, and ask to only receive bitcoin for it, more and more people are crying foul, demanding they accept credit cards to prove they're not scamming. Seems ironic. How can we ask the world to want to use our currency when were not comfortable using it ourselves? True, it's because of a bad apple experience, but the worlds full of bad apples.
Many propose a break for what we have right now, but if anything, it seems to enforce people's needs and desires for things like contract law, reversibility of transactions and/or disputability of charges. It's not BFL. Im actually sypathetic to their plight. It's bitcoin itself that the pillars of the bitcoin economy are having issue with. Bfl's just a single company. And even if they never existed, someone else would be in theirs place, and people wanting to transact with them would be demanding these assurances.
Sorry, multi pronged post. Run on thoughts.
How hard can it be to buy 4600 worth of bitcoins? 
