BitForce SC - Pre order delay - page 7.

David_Benz

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you got hacked bitch!

Better be careful with a lottery system often they are considered illegal, look what happen with Dot-Biz back in the 2001.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/07/45584?currentPage=all

BFL is a government funded operation, that wont happen to them.

David_Benz

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you got hacked bitch!

Quote from: ||bit on June 22, 2012, 11:45:02 PM

Quote from: quattro on June 22, 2012, 11:16:27 PM

The problem with the lottery method is that buyers who paid later could get there order filled prior to someone who had their money tied up for months. I don't see any need to process orders differently then they have been. It needs to be first come first served.

Good point.

But then again, what if (hypothetically) the first ten people order 1000 Jalapenos?

You god damned know its gonna be like that. The first 10 ppl are gonna buy a shit load ... they are gonna get rich, fast ... everyone else will catch up ... PPS will die, GPU will die and BTC is gonna be fucked!

||bit

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Quote from: quattro on June 22, 2012, 11:16:27 PM

The problem with the lottery method is that buyers who paid later could get there order filled prior to someone who had their money tied up for months. I don't see any need to process orders differently then they have been. It needs to be first come first served.

Good point.

But then again, what if (hypothetically) the first ten people order 1000 Jalapenos?

||bit

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Quote from: BFL on June 22, 2012, 11:10:10 PM

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Also worth pointing out for anyone interested in participating tomorrow, orders will be taken only via Bit-Pay initially. This is a special promotion with Bit-Pay to promote their BTC merchant account service and may give existing miners a bit of an upper hand in first wave delivery. (alternate payment methods will be added within a few days).

Regards,
BFL

"a bit of an upper hand"

Was that a pun?

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Quote from: BFL on June 22, 2012, 11:10:10 PM

We've been flooded with emails echoing some of the same suggestions here on the forum regarding the best way to determine order priority. I'm writing now in case any of you had been staying up waiting for the order form posting tonight. We're going to sleep on it and post tomorrow, but at the moment we're leaning towards a system that satisfies the two most significant arguments which are first come first serve & the lottery style distribution.

The way we're proposing it would work is that the orders are taken and tagged in priority order. When product is ready on any given day (let's say 40 units) half of them would go to the order priority list while the remainder 20 would go to randomly picked selections from the daily ship lottery.

Also worth pointing out for anyone interested in participating tomorrow, orders will be taken only via Bit-Pay initially. This is a special promotion with Bit-Pay to promote their BTC merchant account service and may give existing miners a bit of an upper hand in first wave delivery. (alternate payment methods will be added within a few days).

Regards,
BFL

Who would be represented in the daily lottery pool? The orders of the day, the month? Seems the lottery size and your sales volume will determine how effective this would be.

David_Benz

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you got hacked bitch!

The end of GPU mining is near!!! And PPS pools!

Dalkore

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I think this looks to be a balanced approach. I little priority and some random luck. Thank you for listening to us. We are trying to just bust your proverbial "balls" for no reason. We want to support a great company, community and concept (the bitcoin) all at once. So that means a little compromise from all of us and working together and most important, communicating. Thank you.

Dalkore

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The pre order prices will be the same published before in the press release?

quattro

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The problem with the lottery method is that buyers who paid later could get there order filled prior to someone who had their money tied up for months. I don't see any need to process orders differently then they have been. It needs to be first come first served.

BFL

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We've been flooded with emails echoing some of the same suggestions here on the forum regarding the best way to determine order priority. I'm writing now in case any of you had been staying up waiting for the order form posting tonight. We're going to sleep on it and post tomorrow, but at the moment we're leaning towards a system that satisfies the two most significant arguments which are first come first serve & the lottery style distribution.

The way we're proposing it would work is that the orders are taken and tagged in priority order. When product is ready on any given day (let's say 40 units) half of them would go to the order priority list while the remainder 20 would go to randomly picked selections from the daily ship lottery.

Also worth pointing out for anyone interested in participating tomorrow, orders will be taken only via Bit-Pay initially. This is a special promotion with Bit-Pay to promote their BTC merchant account service and may give existing miners a bit of an upper hand in first wave delivery. (alternate payment methods will be added within a few days).

Regards,
BFL

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