Is BFL's current offer of 5 GH/s for 2 BTC delivered in "2 or more months" also "highway robbery"?
One problem with your question. The Jalapeno is NOT a fixed 2BTC while the Blade IS a fixed 4BTC. The Jala's $274, which currently is less than 2BTC
The only thing that matters is the price today. $274/$128 = 2.14 BTC right now. That's more than 2 BTC.
, is not a good price to purchase at in this moment in time.
That's funny. ASICMiner is "highway robbery", but BFL is simply "not a good price" even though it costs more and is delivered months later. That means you're simply a troll.
The current price of BTC is between $125 and $145 depending on your source. Semantics.
Was Avalon highway robbery? At the time of preorder, no, but many today would say they are due to not making a positive RoI.
Was BFL highway robbery? In the past, no, today, yes, in the future, it could go either way.
Was ASICMiner highway robbery? From May 4th until today, yep.
Are all the other companies highway robbery? Depends on the value of BTC when they ship. Currently, if you ain't got it in hand in the next 2 weeks, you got screwed... UNTIL the price of BTC goes up.
Here's the difference troll boy, while BFL is currently not a good deal, EVERY person who has an item inhand today can get back what they spent on it. BFL sold for a fixed USD price and in-hand today = over 100% RoI on that USD price. ASICMiner chose to fix their product to BTC. In May and June, some paid $250 or more, some paid $160 or less, but ALL paid 1.99BTC. Due to this price fixing to BTC, NOTHING sold since May 4th by ASICMiner will ever make as much BTC as was spent. ASICMiner has already screwed resellers by undercutting some of them before they even got product in-hand. If the value of BTC hit's $1000 in November, EVERY person who bought a blade today would have spent $4000 worth of BTC and would have less in return than they spent. Every person who bought from BFL would be well on the way to RoI on the $274 they spent.
Close your eyes to the facts if you want. You can choose to 1) Spend 4BTC today to get back ~3.5BTC (if lucky), 2) Spend $274 today and gamble you will get more than $274 in the future. 3) Save your BTC and buy nothing.
For me, #3 is the best choice, #2 comes in second and #1 is dead last.
Until friedcat changes his pricing to a fixed $ amount, it's highway robbery, whether you look at last month, last week, today, next week or next month. Since everyone else is already at a fixed $ amount, they are only highway robbery when the BTC price is too low.