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Topic: BLOKFORGE- Official Canaan Distributor - page 12. (Read 24515 times)

member
Activity: 189
Merit: 11
January 24, 2018, 12:04:15 AM
Here's the thing people. Stop complaining;  Wink

Unlike every other company out they go out of there way to list any extra units that become available for forum members. They even carve out a small slice for us from the main order.

It does suck when you try and can't get through or you happen to get there to late. I'm sure they will try and fix it, but really if you get to the end and it says out of stock, take a minute breathe, and then act like you just got there and there were none available.

If people keep shitting on their efforts where is the incentive for them to come here and give us a shot at units, and even a slight discount sometimes.

Yes, we are whining a bit, but it could all be avoided with a page that reads that they are having difficulties and aren't  able to fulfill sales like they had hoped(bug is you can get it in your cart but it immediately become invalid).   A little  transparency and honesty goes a long way.   We understand there being no availability, and not getting it in your cart to begin with. We just don't understand why it gets pulled from your cart - probably given to someone who was lucky enough to not experience the problem.

By the way I replicated this on three different machines running three different operating systems using a different browser on each machine(IOS/Windows/Linux using Safari/Firefox/Chrome). So I feel certain this is a shopping cart bug and not an browser/cookie/security settings issue. 

From what I saw, stock gets gobbled up as soon as people put them in their cart... so the only way to get through was to keep refreshing your checkout/cart while you were still on the timer.  When other people's timer expires, then stock goes back in and if you are refreshing your checkout you can have a chance to finish your order before more people remove the stock again by adding to a new cart..

wack-a-mole shopping - not sure if it was better to go for 6 or 1. I did it for 1 and eventually got through
jr. member
Activity: 54
Merit: 3
January 23, 2018, 11:50:55 PM
Here's the thing people. Stop complaining;  Wink

Unlike every other company out they go out of there way to list any extra units that become available for forum members. They even carve out a small slice for us from the main order.

It does suck when you try and can't get through or you happen to get there to late. I'm sure they will try and fix it, but really if you get to the end and it says out of stock, take a minute breathe, and then act like you just got there and there were none available.

If people keep shitting on their efforts where is the incentive for them to come here and give us a shot at units, and even a slight discount sometimes.

Yes, we are whining a bit, but it could all be avoided with a page that reads that they are having difficulties and aren't  able to fulfill sales like they had hoped(bug is you can get it in your cart but it immediately become invalid).   A little  transparency and honesty goes a long way.   We understand there being no availability, and not getting it in your cart to begin with. We just don't understand why it gets pulled from your cart - probably given to someone who was lucky enough to not experience the problem.

By the way I replicated this on three different machines running three different operating systems using a different browser on each machine(IOS/Windows/Linux using Safari/Firefox/Chrome). So I feel certain this is a shopping cart bug and not an browser/cookie/security settings issue. 
legendary
Activity: 1554
Merit: 2037
January 23, 2018, 10:31:02 PM
Here's the thing people. Stop complaining;  Wink

Unlike every other company out they go out of there way to list any extra units that become available for forum members. They even carve out a small slice for us from the main order.

It does suck when you try and can't get through or you happen to get there to late. I'm sure they will try and fix it, but really if you get to the end and it says out of stock, take a minute breathe, and then act like you just got there and there were none available.

If people keep shitting on their efforts where is the incentive for them to come here and give us a shot at units, and even a slight discount sometimes.
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
January 23, 2018, 10:21:59 PM
What is this? Keeps saying some are available but cant even get to the cart. Website is broken af.

Even if you get one in your cart (and it says you have 10 mins to complete check out), when you go to check out, it gives you an out of stock error.

This is the first time I've tried to order from Blokforge, so was hoping their site would work better than some of the other distributors  Sad
Fair queuing, guys... not that hard.
Lock table
Check available qtys
Reserve items (or update qty table)
Unlock access
Repeat and handle next customer request...
(and don't give me an out of stock error if the stock is already in my cart)

Last 3 sales it went like this and still not fixed Sad
newbie
Activity: 73
Merit: 0
January 23, 2018, 10:11:32 PM
3k for an 11TH miner for end of March delivery is way too much. Difficulty could be up 50% by then. ROI would be over a year out. Canaan should've come down to Bitmain's price on their S9s. How soon people forget that last January BTC was below $1000. This bitcoin bubble is starting to look like the internet bubble of 2000. Companies are adding blockchain to their names or just by mentioning involvement in blockchain and having their stocks jump 50-100%. We should all remember what happened when that bubble burst in 2000 & 2001.
member
Activity: 189
Merit: 11
January 23, 2018, 09:58:08 PM
I did get one into my cart, but then the cart screen had the pink line across the top saying it wasn't available.  A few refreshes on the product page later, and it showed 1 available, the last one, but then by the time I hit Add to Cart, it was gone.  

A lot of non-mathing mofos out there.  Double the price of a 741 for 50% gain  in hash rate?  Yeah..... NO.  And with the new lower BTC prices which universally equal LESS PROFIT.  A fool and his money are soon parted.  Looks like some people took out advance loans against their upcoming tax refund.  Not me.

dude - whatever crypto you may have, sell it and buy a puppy

Puppy's are expensive man, ROI is negative. You actually loose money while CUTE looses its value over time.

Haha!   Cheesy Grin
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
January 23, 2018, 09:45:26 PM
I did get one into my cart, but then the cart screen had the pink line across the top saying it wasn't available.  A few refreshes on the product page later, and it showed 1 available, the last one, but then by the time I hit Add to Cart, it was gone.  

A lot of non-mathing mofos out there.  Double the price of a 741 for 50% gain  in hash rate?  Yeah..... NO.  And with the new lower BTC prices which universally equal LESS PROFIT.  A fool and his money are soon parted.  Looks like some people took out advance loans against their upcoming tax refund.  Not me.

dude - whatever crypto you may have, sell it and buy a puppy

Puppy's are expensive man, ROI is negative. You actually loose money while CUTE looses its value over time.
member
Activity: 189
Merit: 11
January 23, 2018, 09:38:02 PM
I did get one into my cart, but then the cart screen had the pink line across the top saying it wasn't available.  A few refreshes on the product page later, and it showed 1 available, the last one, but then by the time I hit Add to Cart, it was gone.  

A lot of non-mathing mofos out there.  Double the price of a 741 for 50% gain  in hash rate?  Yeah..... NO.  And with the new lower BTC prices which universally equal LESS PROFIT.  A fool and his money are soon parted.  Looks like some people took out advance loans against their upcoming tax refund.  Not me.

dude - whatever crypto you may have, sell it and buy a puppy
jr. member
Activity: 54
Merit: 3
January 23, 2018, 09:37:00 PM
Ya.  I got the "Ha! faked you out - it's not really in your cart" message too.  I was able to repeat this scenario three times over 24 minutes.

Sounds like everyone had this problem too.


newbie
Activity: 3
Merit: 0
January 23, 2018, 09:35:38 PM
Omg you have to fight to get it in the cart, then fight to checkout, then also fight to finish the order? All while timed? What kind of clusterf*ck scatterbrain sh*t is this??? How the hell does anyone manage to get an order completed?
hero member
Activity: 955
Merit: 1004
January 23, 2018, 09:34:07 PM
I did get one into my cart, but then the cart screen had the pink line across the top saying it wasn't available.  A few refreshes on the product page later, and it showed 1 available, the last one, but then by the time I hit Add to Cart, it was gone.  

A lot of non-mathing mofos out there.  Double the price of a 741 for 50% gain  in hash rate?  Yeah..... NO.  And with the new lower BTC prices which universally equal LESS PROFIT.  A fool and his money are soon parted.  Looks like some people took out advance loans against their upcoming tax refund.  Not me.
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
January 23, 2018, 09:33:00 PM
Had one in my cart and I just couldn't pull the trigger. It's either a mistake to buy it now at this price or i'm an idiot. Either way it's a mistake lol. Gonna stick to GPU mining. Good luck all.
member
Activity: 189
Merit: 11
January 23, 2018, 09:28:51 PM
Don't give up yet, I'm sure there will be some cancels or maybe carts that time out.

yeah it is possible - was worth it to use 0% credit card
newbie
Activity: 23
Merit: 0
January 23, 2018, 09:25:43 PM
What is this? Keeps saying some are available but cant even get to the cart. Website is broken af.

Even if you get one in your cart (and it says you have 10 mins to complete check out), when you go to check out, it gives you an out of stock error.

This is the first time I've tried to order from Blokforge, so was hoping their site would work better than some of the other distributors  Sad

A suggestion for your cart code... use fair queuing:
Set global table lock on product counts
Check available qtys
Reserve items (or update qty table)
Unlock access
Repeat and handle next customer request
Not perfect but simple.
EDIT: making it sound less like a rant
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
January 23, 2018, 09:13:37 PM
Don't give up yet, I'm sure there will be some cancels or maybe carts that time out.
newbie
Activity: 3
Merit: 0
January 23, 2018, 09:13:28 PM
What is this? Keeps saying some are available but cant even get to the cart. Website is broken af.
member
Activity: 189
Merit: 11
January 23, 2018, 09:11:39 PM
Looks like the March batch of A821's is now sold out. For the very first time, I saw a quantity of 3 available for one refresh, and then my attempt to add to the card and it was sold out again. I wonder how many they actually had for sale?

@timk225: Did you actually get one into your cart?

I had one in my cart but by the time I went to the checkout it already said there was none left to ship
alh
legendary
Activity: 1846
Merit: 1052
January 23, 2018, 09:07:47 PM
Looks like the March batch of A821's is now sold out. For the very first time, I saw a quantity of 3 available for one refresh, and then my attempt to add to the card and it was sold out again. I wonder how many they actually had for sale?

@timk225: Did you actually get one into your cart?
legendary
Activity: 3080
Merit: 1080
January 23, 2018, 09:02:26 PM
IMHO 821 are NOT a good deal. I'd rather wait for the 841 and if they are not ridiculously overpriced compared to S9 then it's a good buy.
member
Activity: 97
Merit: 35
January 23, 2018, 12:46:37 AM
Any word when the controllers will be shipping with firmware for 821's?  I'm going to buy a separate controller for the 821's I have coming, but waiting until they are already on the controller to order.

Controllers shipping with 821's will have 821 controller firmware, if you get one sooner, just need to download and flash it when the time comes.

Well that's what I mean't.  When are the controllers out for the 821's?  I have a few 821's on order currently, but didn't order a controller yet for them.

Any canaan controller ordered from us will come with 821 firmware, none are in stock at the moment, they will be shipping same time as first batch of miners.
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