harkifier guy sounds like is Brian Raymond to me. I order over 50x servers from Brian in April, since now I have yet receive any of my server yet. I sent the payment to him already.
1) Once I sent him the payment, his response was dropped to ZERO for two weeks, he promised me to ship within ONE week after received the payment.
2) I tried to call him after two weeks, he said his family have issue and lost contacts for two weeks, he promised it will ship out 2 days later.( tried to call him 5-6 times a day until he pickup)
3) I tried to call him 4 days later, he said some one went back to China and bought 750 ASIC chip( pretty retarded to say ASIC chip, everyone know is MSI RX 470 4GB Samsung/Hynic memory with upgraded timing) He said it will ship out for another 7 days. I sent him an email to confirm it will ship out in 7 days
4) 7 days later called him again(You have to try at least 5-10 times a day, lucky enough he will answer your phone call!!) This time he said the motherboard have issue, he have to eat the cost of over 150x motherboard and get them replaced. It will ship out by early next week.
5) I was naive and believe again, later he sent out an email to me saying the shipment resumed. I tried to call him 3 days later after the shipment resume email. He promised me to ship out on Friday but now postponed to next week...
Everyone know right now is Ethereum gold rush, why you think he will ship out the shipment when you can't buy ANY GPU RX470, 480 570 580, EVGA G2 1300 power supply and motherboard? He will keep your money and secure the GPUs for mining for his own and keep mining until you asked for a full refund... Once the GPU stock are free, maybe he will ship you a system. I don't think he will ship anything in the next 3-6 month. At lease the ethereum gold rush is over!!!
Here is his phone number below. don't waste your time hoping he will ship it out anytime soon. Get your money back and hope to do something else.
This is so unfortunate to hear.
Either this guy truly fell on some bad times / bad luck or something else is going on. Regardless of the reason, these stories are starting to become more prevalent and the lack of activity here from the business owner is very concerning.
Your point about the gold rush is valid, I'd hate to think this business is mining for extended periods with hardware paid for with other peoples money as part of "testing" similar to what we saw Bitmain do with the initial L3+ launch.
It looks like he registered the business to his home too, which makes this information being public all that much worse of a situation IMO.
Hope this business can get this resolved for everyone involved, I really hate to see this kind of thing happen.
Harkifier does have a point though. I've been waiting for a month now on an RMA GTX 1070 from Amazon.com, no one has them anywhere in USA except for an Ebay seller who is charging double for them right now. It's much worse for AMD Cards. I've called Amazon and they basically told me they can refund me or I can wait. I bought the card when it was on sale and because of demand the price has gone up near $100.
IMO this business needs to either refund those orders that can't be fulfilled inside of 4 weeks from order date and/or offer alternatives such as an nvidia based rig at a higher cost instead of AMD to those that have already placed orders.