Topic: BFL is shipping - page 14. (Read 25045 times)
I ordered a 5ghz miner in April, got the email this morning about confirming, but nothing pops for me to confirm..presume its the Jalepeno issue mentioned above...would love to find out for sure though!
Got my email...am OK with the Jalapeño needing a power supply, as it makes any USB power concerns moot. My only concern is how long it'll take them to get to late-August orders like mine. 
ow I pay like $ 0,32 KWH
They changed my express shipping (paid $ 88 for it) to standard shipping. That's like 2 weeks from US to EU. If I upgrade to express shipping it's a freaking $ 800 (2 day delivery)!!!
They changed my express shipping (paid $ 88 for it) to standard shipping. That's like 2 weeks from US to EU. If I upgrade to express shipping it's a freaking $ 800 (2 day delivery)!!!
Because BFL screwed up power consumption (ASICS need about 5x more power than planned/guessed/hoped) they need bigger casings. Bigger casings means higher shipping costs.
So you get your units later (original shipping was scheduled for October 2012), with less performance, and a higher shipping price.
Thank you, BFL. Not.
Bullshit. As an online retailer myself, I'm pretty confident in telling you that this almost certainly has nothing to do with the size, and everything to do with international shipping. The price quoted for express shipping is for CONUS. There's not a shipping company in the world that will do overnight U.S. to Europe for $88. Lots of retail systems will approve a flat shipping rate intended to one region without verifying that the item is actually shipping to that region. It takes a human with some common goddamn sense to look at it and go "Yeah, Europe isn't in the CONUS," and adjust the order.
It takes a special kind of retard to assume that a moderately larger item (in roughly the same size box and weight) is going to cost 10x as much. Overnight shipping to Europe was NEVER available for $88. It was a system glitch, that was caught by an actual person processing orders.
I had paid on April for the new 5GHs units for 274$ and i dont have any email, I supose this email is only for the Jalapenos orders.
LOL!! All of you people and your recent orders, I've been on order since July 2012.
so if i order today, when i will receive mine?
I had paid on April for the new 5GHs units for 274$ and i dont have any email, I supose this email is only for the Jalapenos orders.
ok this, kinda answered my post ow I pay like $ 0,32 KWH
They changed my express shipping (paid $ 88 for it) to standard shipping. That's like 2 weeks from US to EU. If I upgrade to express shipping it's a freaking $ 800 (2 day delivery)!!!
They changed my express shipping (paid $ 88 for it) to standard shipping. That's like 2 weeks from US to EU. If I upgrade to express shipping it's a freaking $ 800 (2 day delivery)!!!
Because BFL screwed up power consumption (ASICS need about 5x more power than planned/guessed/hoped) they need bigger casings. Bigger casings means higher shipping costs.
So you get your units later (original shipping was scheduled for October 2012), with less performance, and a higher shipping price.
Thank you, BFL. Not.
I had paid on April for the new 5GHs units for 274$ and i dont have any email, I supose this email is only for the Jalapenos orders.
We are doing this to be sure everyone is aware of the power issue (and to a lesser extent the size issue re Jalapeno/Single) with the product and accepts the changed specs. If not, we will happily refund your money, since you may have ordered a product with different specs than what we are forced to send.
And this is what we have been talking about, this is absolutely professional.
Josh, I have hope for you guys
If you now learn how to be tough on your customers WITHOUT insulting them, you could make a decent leader...
ow I pay like $ 0,32 KWH
They changed my express shipping (paid $ 88 for it) to standard shipping. That's like 2 weeks from US to EU. If I upgrade to express shipping it's a freaking $ 800 (2 day delivery)!!!
They changed my express shipping (paid $ 88 for it) to standard shipping. That's like 2 weeks from US to EU. If I upgrade to express shipping it's a freaking $ 800 (2 day delivery)!!!
lol ya who cares about power gimme those hashes now plz. .081$ per kwhr here
You will care about power consumption sooner than you think. 
lol ya who cares about power gimme those hashes now plz. .081$ per kwhr here
Yay I confirmed. xD Anyone have a clue when a late March order might arrive? They're now saying that if you order today, it'll take two months, which is quicker than I was expecting.
Wait, why am I even asking about shipping guesses? This is BFL... ;p
Wait, why am I even asking about shipping guesses? This is BFL... ;p
Got the email... power issue doesn't bother me, can't wait 
To confirm you just have to accept the box that pops up telling you about the "power issues" (i.e. plug into wall as opposed to USB). May be only for Jalapenos don't know about the others.
To confirm you just have to accept the box that pops up telling you about the "power issues" (i.e. plug into wall as opposed to USB). May be only for Jalapenos don't know about the others.
rigs have same hash power but bigger case and powered by the wall. i confirmed. guess we shall seeee.
I confirmed,,,, I confirmed.. 
How? I got the same email but my BFL account has no "confirm feature" that I could find....
Please enlighten me/us
I confirmed,,,, I confirmed..
Ok, Can you tell us more about how to confirm the order?
Thanks.
We are doing this to be sure everyone is aware of the power issue (and to a lesser extent the size issue re Jalapeno/Single) with the product and accepts the changed specs. If not, we will happily refund your money, since you may have ordered a product with different specs than what we are forced to send.
I received this email and, although I do own one Single, I do not have a pre-order. Did you send these to all previous customers as a combination of both the shipping announcement and the need to confirm for those who have pre-orders?
Regardless, best of luck with this roll-out. As I stated above, I don't currently have any BFL hardware on pre-order, but will definitely keep an eye on progress going forward. IMO, Bitcoin badly needs competition in the ASIC space and hope you ramp up shipping quickly.
We are doing this to be sure everyone is aware of the power issue (and to a lesser extent the size issue re Jalapeno/Single) with the product and accepts the changed specs. If not, we will happily refund your money, since you may have ordered a product with different specs than what we are forced to send.
Kudos Josh. Well written and a great explanation.
Awesome news looking forward to repeat business.
We are doing this to be sure everyone is aware of the power issue (and to a lesser extent the size issue re Jalapeno/Single) with the product and accepts the changed specs. If not, we will happily refund your money, since you may have ordered a product with different specs than what we are forced to send.
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