Purchased a Jalapeno last September, upgraded it to a 60GH in April, and sold it today for $3000 cash as soon as it arrived. Guess I can't complain, but I guess the lying and overall customer service unpleasantness (Jody is a cunt) left a sour taste in my mouth.
I don't want to bust your chops, but this statement rang particularly ironic with me, given your nic and your adverstising a bitcoin based business in your signature.
Why? You take delivery of your Jally and then sell it for an amount of USD which can only be earned back by a future order-of-magnitude increase in exchange rate, if even then. The result will be another person ultimately disallusioned with bitcoin and newly convinced it's a big scam.
I'm not picking on you; the asic revolution has replaced the front face of bitcoin with people whose main concern is their own enrichment rather than people who embraced the notion of the currency and would press to extend their ability to transact in the (few) coins they earned mining, or those which they themselves took in trade.
That started the day the first guy figured out that a video card could produce the too-simple proof of work in a massively parallel way. On that day, the cost of participation in bitcoin began to rise, to the point now that it takes thousands of dollars for hardware that may or may not ever pay it back.
The only ones with thousands of dollars to "invest" in bitcoin are those who are so heavily invested in First World fiat systems that many have no genuine interest in bitcoin, beyond hope for the value to rise, in fiat terms, and then only to more quickly -if at all- recover the fiat capital they invest in the hardware.
BFL didn't start that; they only capitalized on that corruption, and perfected it by bringing in the methods of abusing and fleecing new entrants into classic and conventional "get rich quick" schemes. Selling your Jally for $3,000, you are just joining in that corruption.
It's a far cry back to the time when anyone with a personal computer could participate, spreading some economic hope around the world to people who have limited access to paths to prosperity.
It's a long way down the road to the ultimate stagnation, and fade into history, of the experiment.