Topic: Bfl march refund offer stat sheet. (Read 1289 times)

Ponzi? or Pyramid?

BFL had a black friday sale where they swore everything was in stock.

A week later people began posting that BFL was saying it was a preorder and it will ship when available,

Disgusting

yeah i have a Titan on order (in my defense it was just before KNC went nuts and starting slipping to bfl areas of endeavor) ....that may have been really dumb..in that I got it in 2013 and under USA IRS new guidelines....I would have paid 2k in taxes in 2013...but i paid for the Titan that year even thou it comes this year it saved me almost exactly 2k in what i shoulda paid in taxes in 2013...soo....using a weird logic...I really have 8k in the Titan ...cause if I would not have kept that order from neptune to titan..i'd be 2k short anyway

hoping it kicks butt...but with the bfl refund of 8519 (-300 loss) and say 20 coins the Jupiter will get out this year before turning into a doorstop...and I have an alpha-t scrypt miner coming 16mh plus they match same with virtual hash later after I get this miner ..plus the Titan ..if things pick up BTC wise back to 1k btc and/or the Titan kicks but...really don't want to pay gross income on the 50 coin I'll have this year

so I need a good equip deal for this home biz miner wise (spoododoleis is close but at 47% diff per month which i think is low and 440usd for btc with elec it comes out almost exactly even...for buying coin vs getting a unit....and that was the 6.5th 4,495 includes shipping deal of last week....was shocked

so sitting on hands hoping by this fall someone legit will pull another oct jupiter kinda good value deal out of their hat ...so i can mine and bury some of these costs to IRS in equipment that at least would be closer to ROI then I see lately

With the PH Farms asic equip dump this summer...man ....just don't pay to play..so fence sitting .....6.5th unit august at 2500watts for the same btc i could buy now don't cut it..i respect their attempts..but imho we may see some major asic war prices here soon..(or not look at ebay people are crazy)

but yeah altcoins if for no other reason the neptune just did not cut it ...would be useful with all this PH dump fro maybe 4 months with elec useage....so figured the scrypt miner Titan would at least give me some other coin to play with (delusional that may be) and I could prob run it for a year...ie not be quite as dead quite as quick hopefully with other coin choices

but I mean really I do the numbers on elec and such and a 6.5TH unit in Aug on bitcoin at 4495 won't float the boat.shocked is what I am shocked

so a *fence sitting" I will go...not that I'm new to that still pulling BFL splinters out of my A*S from the 1year 20 day wait for my refund.....at least I"m used to it


Searing

Yeah I have 29  five chip gridseeds doing close to  10mh   less then 290 watts.  They are the future boom.

 they meaning  multi-miner asics.


 ps  I like the quote from justified.

I got ROI in cash,but not in BTC.............80 BTC paid for a 30GH'er ($650) in June 2012 & earned about 50 BTC from July 2013 till Feb 2014 & sold it on ebay for $330+ $15 for shipping 

BUT,it took my 6 Klondikes & 4 Drillbit miners to help pay that BFL off............

Now I sit on 910GH of Ants (@ 2100 watts) & see my earnings drop rapidly,about .056 BTC per day from .12 just 2 months ago.........Thanks ASICminer/Megabigpower/KNC/etc.. 

I'm looking to the altcoins now,with so many to mine I should be able do ok.At least the wattage reduction will help the power bill 

a lot of clueless noobs from a month ago are still yelling on forums ....

they are still sucking in people saying the 65mm will ROI for crying out loud

it is like watching a puppy meat grinder

Searing
 

To Searing  Not that I like BFL,  but I do like your story.

I want to hear more like yours. Thank you for the 2 long posts.  Frankly even though my money amount was only 512 usd I do know exactly how you feel. 

I never thought I would see a dime from them.

people got smart and they dont order from bfl no more

I have read the transcript from Sonnys "supervision" hearing and it is good to see that finally some of the complaints to various government institutions regarding FTC regulations and consumer rights are being heard.

From now on it should be quite easy to get a refund on your BFL orders, essentially whenever you want.

If such refund is not granted and /or certain lawsuits against BFL will prevail and fraudulent behaviour will be detected, it will spell serious consequences for the people at BFL

Yeah we also serve who are dumb and lucky...you got your stuff in time to get ROI right? Unacceptable..pretty sure you did

well you did save me 180gh prevoius to thiis.. I did manage to get out the last day on my BFL trials last summer...so it could have been worse

just shoulda pulled the trigger then on all of it...but I mean he was saying Aug right...already 3 months late ....so I only dumped 1/2

well..i took a 300 bucks loss by selling of my monarch upgrade 907gh of stuff junk but $8,519 of costs/equip/marjoity refunded I'll
take 8219.00 clear and eat the 300 bucks as a 'life lesson' probably was worth more then that the 300 bucks was jally loss on ebay wire xfer
fee and misl...but so of the $8,519.00 I had into BFL the 300 buck loss is a blessing hopefully grew me some brain cells...


what is really funny is that BFL p/o me so bad that I got KNC just to get ROI back on BFL junk..another
hope and a prayer all said and done i'd break even on both .ie did credit card this time so I had the option to bail
heh that worked will have gotten 50 coin out of the knc unit since oct 18th and now my bfl refund of above $$$ i'm one smug puppy...

so F**cK **u bfl ....i not only got my money ALL OF IT BACK (man wonder what the paypal fee is to send me around $8200 bucks ouch heh)...

I also got a KNC miner that will squeak me out 50 coin barely by august ahem ' KISS MY NAKED METAL ASS" as Bender would say....

1 year and 20 days to get a refund forced by sonny's past.....just happy I got it before bfl declares 'protected bankruptcy" about the time imho
when Sonny gets a pass for showing good faith in 'refunds' as we see here sent to me..then they will walk away with their personal assets (is how
corp bankruptcy works) and laugh all the way to the bank

man......I have to take it easy on luck Ive used mine up for the rest of the year


well if this is what it takes me being STUPID (must revise history on my 1964.00 m/o for upgrading stuff to 907gh of monarchs etc and 1 7gh jally)

I've been kicking my self over that dumb/clueless and overly optimistic "no refund" punt for the last 7 months....it was quite the ego drain....PTSD BFL style

if i'd not done that..the monarch upgrade for 1964.00 usd I'd have been lucky to get 1/3 out of selling the stuff on ebay...i took the 7gh rather then cloud hash xfer ( I think my email referred to 'eat me" on xfering it to the cloud or getting my april 12th order on halloween oct 31st or xfer it to gh farm.)

but 1964.00 usd punt...man..in hindsight it is still stupid ...somehow i have to make it look like a plan..yeah.......people will forget i can lie to save my ego....er maybe not

so I will TAKE STUPID/CLUELESS on that whole panic'd punt and additional 1964 usd to the crooks ...in that due to the UNIVERSE FOR SOME REASON LIKES ME ...and
the corresponding parole/trial of Sonny V. makes it look good to give clueless closet optimists like myself a refund (i mean really a day after i gave the 1964 i was forced to admit
I was a closet optimist that got taken....ouch......)

SO STUPID/CLUELESS ....A FINE HAIL MARY PASS ER OR PUNT ON A HOPE AN A PRAYER WORKED and had absolutely nothing to do with any efforts on my part....just Sonny's criminal record and BFL's usual inability to ship anything....and their current panic'd refund plan till they run out of money...they WILL RUN OUT OF MONEY and cry bankruptcy bet on it..

I need to buy a lottery ticket every day this week...such a run of dumb luck will never pass my way again


So I will take the tag of "YOU LUCKY F***Ki*n* IDIOT....and wear it proudly.....heh ...somehow the human 'STUPID GENE' must be furthered through the gene pool...(er have the need to wear a cape and be smug)

anyway hopefully others will get out thru the barb'd wire before they flush BFL down the drain and keep their personal assets...but imho it will be less then 2 months they are in
bankruptch court ..hell THEY STILL HAVE NOT SHIPPED A MONARCH CARD...WE ARE PROBABLY LOOKING AT JULY...no way can BFL float that long imho

well thanks unaccetable I'll also copy this to a pm to you ..put it on here for others..if i'm gonna be this lucky i have to fess up to being con'd by them and stupid it is only fair

anyway anyone trip over any equip deals let me know spoodolies group buy was the best i saw 6.5th august at 4495 inlc shipping but at 47% diff rise which I thought was low at 440 btc coin...it was even on pay for btc or get the equipment

but man if i get 19 coin out of the jupiter this year (likely) and have to pay as 'gross income of 25% on the bfl refund (of course i took it off as a biz expense last year as a loss i mean reall who coulda forseen this) and the other 2k of the 4k i shoulda paid in taxes for the Titan (yeah prob a mistake...but at least for what i shoulda paid last year it is like getting it for 8k ....550 bucks in taxes last year showing a profit on my btc biz is still better then 2,550usd i shoulda paid w/o Titan purchase)

I probably should play this infrastructure game by using equip offsets for solar panels i mean with elec use i could justify

but man if the titan kicks but etc and I make 50 coin and coin goes back up to 1k a coin...be nice to play solar panel/heat pump/ ductless a/c or get a decent close to ROI miner with elec by the time the year ends....not looking to likely just saying for those who went the legal route on taxes as a hobby biz 50 coin i can't sell for a year and a day at 46% capital gains if less then 1 year on top of 25% for mining it w/o some equip solar panels/miners or other offsets..and coin goes back to 1k by dec ..i could be a hurting unit to the tax man...but them solar panels are looking good imho of being in this for the long term more then 5yrs and playing it legal...

interesting times

off to eat more PIE downstairs and GLOAT .....if ever there was a reason to GLOAT this is it

so with the refund..i can now PRETEND that I never heard of BFL ....lost 300 bucks and of course picked the right horse with the oct knc 555gh jupiter

denial the refuge of us stupid and lucky f**ks don' t ya know

anyway posted here for all to skip/groan/read or disregard...

cc to unacceptable

"stupid and lucky who'd a thunk it?"

Searing

CONGRATS SEARING!!!!!!!!!!!

well here is a link to my rant on my monarch refunds/jally etc 907gh that finally came thru
after 1 year and 20 days for equiv $$$ and jally etc of $8,519.00usd

it is a frigging miracle

there is a rant by my on bfl scams on the process etc i should try to find the link


here is the link to my rant and etc...so the 1964 upgrade punt on a hope and a prayer
.which up to 30 days ago i thought was the dumbest thing i ever did has come thru

here is the rant/info link scroll down to searing

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150803.5340

anyway bfl is running scared ...chase them down on a refund if you monarch order (or in
my case 'punt' to monarch of worthless 65mm stuff on a hope and a prayer last sept/oct)

Searing

Guess no one believed them, I almost didn't bother. Probably lucky most people didn't do it.

Well if that is correct looks bad for BFL labs.


 Only 170 reads so far. Not much interest.

So in all of bitcointalk only 2 people give info about refunds.  bitpop and myself. 

So no one else got a refund/hash jump offer email  in march  of 2014  just the 2 of us?

Just got a monarch refund! !  In Bitcoin, took almost 45 days. Kinda glad Bitcoin is low

If you are going to look at refunds you need to include the pain that was PayPal refunds. Simply can't pick and choose your goldilocks type refunds. Seems like your are trying whitewash the record.

There are not 100s of refunds. There are infact 1000s of complaints and failures to follow FTC regulations. If you ask for a refund legally you should not have to wait more than a day or two to process the refund. What BFL did to you and is still doing to others is against FTC regulations and this company needs to be brought to court on this fact. It won't help to post a list of $300 to $500 refunds when we are talking millions being held and this is FACT not speculation as it is documented by the Probation Officer in Sonny V's probation hearing where he got an extra 2 years on probation and very STIFF warning to rectify ALL his customers complaints. Transcripts of the Probation Hearing against Sonny V.

You can ignore all the hate posts and threats against Josh etc and BFL you can't ignore the lawsuits and the actual complaints from people who are not getting refunds in a timely manner. Your refund is just that case. You asked and had to wait a long long long time to get your refund and that is against FTC regulations. BFL is not a honest broker here and it is important that people do not make them out to be better than they are. They owe millions of dollars and have defrauded people and failed to refund them. This is not hateful speech this is fact. We will see what the court cases bring but it is clear that there many people still being abused by BFL.

Do not buy BFL. Do not lay down and accept a 13 month refund. Report your problems directly to the Probation Officer of Sonny V and join the class action. That is the only way you will get BFL to take refunding seriously. This company has not changed one little bit in the way it is dealing with customers and is doing everything in it's power to slow refunds down or not give them out at all at the very same time they keep priming the ponzi pump / building the pyramid promoting the 28nm Monarch and misleading new customers that it is a great product and will be delivered in short order. If you are in denial about BFL that is one thing you can read and learn about what it is they are doing and change your thinking. If you keep on promoting these refunds as a "positive" gesture by BFL you are misleading everyone. This is not how business should be done. You get a refund when you ask for it not 30 to 45 days later. That is illegal.

Did you know your 500$ went to get Sonny V a house? Why wouldn't it go to a quick refund? Or say getting your unit to you faster? Why did any money go into Sonny V's house?

  Old thread does not apply to my request.

BFL said they would send March 2014 emails out with the offer for a refund or increased hash power.  I am interested in creation of a data base in this thread of how many people got the email mine came on march 18th 2014

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/need-a-paypal-refund-for-your-bfl-purchase-295187

 I got a march 2014 refund email from bfl.  they paid me today/yesterday
see thread.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bfl-refunded-me-yesterday-590300


I locked the other thread.


Here goes.

1) did you get a email in march  or 2014 from BFL with a refund offer or boost your hash.  yes or no?


2) if you got the offer what did you do?  

A)ignore it,
B) say refund me
c)or say boost my hash
d)or say lots of mean nasty stuff to them.
e)other

3)  lastly if you got the offer and asked for a refund did you get one yet.


I realize the hatred of BFL is big.  I do not want to hear or read terrible things that you want done to them.

I want facts.

It would be nice to see 100 or 200 posts here .  with simple facts. that let us have an idea of how many got a refund offer and how many refunds have been paid.

I self modded this thread and will delete all post that speak of terrible mean nasty stuff.

Having a list of a few hundred  or more real email offers with what really happened to that offer will help the entire BTC world.

 I would really like to think that a well governed BTC world be helpful to all of us that want these kind of coins to grow.