Topic: BLOKFORGE- Official Canaan Distributor - page 17. (Read 24515 times)

As a nooby noob, I wouldn't mind if it went down for like a week or two, and washed out all the weak kneed types. Maybe equipment prices would get back down to normal. Meanwhile, it is what it is, the market is the market. I was willing to pay the juice, and I still had a heck of a time laying my hands on couple decent machines. You connected guys might not realize how hard it is for somebody with zero btc to get into the game in a non ridiculous way. (like buying 5k of btc on a credit caard at btc=20k is ridiculous and stupid) And sending large amounts of value with zero consumer protections takes quite a bit of getting used to. Back OT, hopefully these units shipping will clear the way for the higher T/hs Avalons. 11 is good, 16-18 is better, and there's supposed to be some higher T/hs models working thier way out to us.

lol, BTFD.   

Bitcoin has already crashed back down to $13k..  if it dips under $8k the miner prices will crater like scrypt mining did 3 years ago

I wasn't talking in particular about blockforge (so I'm a little OOT here, sorry). I'm thinking across the board. Even with captcha, if for every miner there are 10 resellers trying to grab hardware it really sucks. If you look at ebay, some sellers post pictures of a wall full of S9s for sale. I'm wondering how big of an effect they are having in the current hardware shortage.

not sure about how easy it would be to script, but the last step in buying from blokforge had a captcha on it. I'm pretty sure the sole purpose of those is to stop people from scripting the pages.

I'm more pissed off because of the sellers' business. I'm sure that all this hardware shortage and buying hell is mostly because of these re-sellers. I see no easy way of stopping them, but it's ridiculous. If they specialize in buying and depleting seller's stock (including writing scripts to do their buying), there's no way we (that specialize in mining or whatever else) have much chance to get hardware.

It's part of the free market. If people want to pay irresponsible prices, let them. Unfortunately they are going to learn the hard way about declining profitability and difficulty.

That being said, I really hope the people buying at these prices have enough money that 5 grand isn't a big deal.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/282807411559?ul_noapp=true

Well that didn't take long.  I actually saw this a day ago and bitched them out for it.

Ha, tell that to everyone who owns a D3.  How much do you possibly think you could sell one of these for on the secondary market?  You can get an in-stock S9 on ebay for $5000. 

The best part of it is they plan on running these miners out of their headquarters in New York and powering them with an on-site coal plant!

We are not sure yet, credit card company does not like a flood of purchases at one time, we will evaluate when the time comes, but it should be available again.

We had less than 100 units.

We are leaving it up until we are sure 100% all the remainder are out of canaans warehouse, just in case.

I think this is the problem with them accepting BTC/BCH for purchases. The assumption now is that everyone who is buying miners was part of the early days when BTC was less than $1000 so now that it is worth $10000+, people are swimming in 'money' and they will pay more for it. Add that everyone that held BTC got the equivalent in BCH made free money out of thin air! That allows them to take liberties with the supply and demand curve. The price is the price the market will bear and the push it up and people still pay it.

There is a Problem i see about to happen in the US mostly because of our new tax scam law unless you make millions, the more the Price goes up on these things the more import tax we pay, the more the IRS might look into it and ask were is that 10 k coming from for that 10 k miner an then the IRS version in other county's starts butting in were they don't belong or really need to be all because of money,even if you follow the rules ...  just some thoughts.

I hope Miner Maker understand this before they go an start selling miners for 10 K plus each . no complaints just something they should consider if they really care about mining  and don't let greed get the best of the whole game.
I'll pay it in time but hate the idea the IRS, will all ways be on my ass form that point on even following rules.

Don't tell me the IRS won't they will even following rules, if there is high amounts money/cash/gear whatever we/you/I call it, involved an I don't mean below 10k .they will expect it for 10 k buys an enforce more over that 3 k buy,the price doesn't have to go up because coins do, sigh .......to me that's just another excuse used to be Greedily or justify greed, that in the end will hurt all of us including the ones that cause it.
I do understand big business won't matter/care price wise and that's the Problem which is why it is so fucked up, sadly, they don't care !!!, what impact it has,which does effect us all, including them in a bad way over time..

Just my 2 cents worth which means nothing but I had to point that out, i will be getting a few avalon miners soon unless i die first , or that's my plan, I still won't buy bitmain ...it's a moral Issue with me and bitmain.

Are credit cards going to be accepted for the March batches?

I got on around 6:55 and was refreshing periodically.  About 7:01 my screen showed available units, I left it on one unit, and click the add to cart or whatever it is button.  Then by the time it got to the next page I had the pink "not available" notice across the top of the screen.

Meh.

At least the site didn't lag out all to hell and back like on the last 741 sale.  It hung up a bit in the 7:00 to 7:02 time range, but otherwise wasn't bad.

Blokforge - how many 821 units were available at 6:59:59 pm?

And why is the 741 still on your site page?  Might as well take it off if no more are being made.

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You do not see another distributor like Blokforge in this category.  They gave special emphasis to this forum, and its members.  They went above, and beyond to even give a discount to members here.  I will be purchasing an A8 from them in the future.  They were the ones who sold me my first miner, and I will never forget my 1st

For those of you who missed out, below is some more of those old A7's  




https://www.ebay.com/itm/Avalon-741-Avalonminer-7-3-TH-s-1600W-Power-supply-Bitcoin-Cash-Miners-BTC/122911253702?hash=item1c9e14e4c6:g:UDAAAOSwPzhaDzGo

I agree that Blokforge is doing its best and is very responsive.  I have ordered several things from them and always had a very good transaction.  Based on their participation here and the responsiveness, I would also order from them over other cheaper options that were not as responsive.

Honestly I've been in lines waiting for tickets, waiting for products, and now waiting for products on line. There's no ideal solution.

Anything you can think of is probably easily manipulated and will likely come down to just as much luck as what just happened (minus the PayPal b.s.)

I'm just happy Blokforge's servers didn't melt.