BFL is a big scam even if they shipped.
If you ask me Selling Block Eruptors for 300 bucks make out to be a bigger scam. They are basically FPGAs only tinier. what i don't get the most is why some people here show what appears to be a true hatred towards BFL which is crazy. Don't like it, don't buy one! There are like a million other people who can "DIY groupbuy your Avalon chips and assmemble your boards together into kits" but I don't want to deal with all that. Do they do things sloppy? "yes" do they try hard to deliver the best looking "most turnkey" product? "yes" Sure there's KNC, there's Terrahash, but I only see rendered drawings, I've seen multiple photos of all the different types of BFL units in testing and in the wild and on ebay and on bitmit.net but they were NOT preorders. They had maybe a 180% cost premium or higher over stock price. Only other ASIC hardware on the market is...yep you said it...block eruptors, fpgas which cost like 10x for the same hashpower and blades which are like 10k for a mere 10gh/s so no...(and of course Avalons that are known to be inferior watt for watt and will easily set you back 20k [something the 75% don't have or aren't willing to risk for the BTC economy])
Stop complaining...find or better yet...build a better ASIC, deliver the units....then start bashing BFL after you can DELIVER where they couldn't....
yea that's right you CAN'T.
for the record...all groupbuys are just baby bfls: preorder with escrow, ppl waiting on chips and assembly of boards with chips, ppl waiting for enough buyers in the groupbuy to acquire the chips...all the bfl bottlenecks that preorders face.
Now I do question if this will be such a lost cause that I get my unit for 4 months and they try to "hook" me into a 2.0 asic 500TH miner for 3k and 50PH for 15k preorder AGAIN to disrupt difficulty to make the current asic obsolete.
Good Job BFL I've switched sides, Lets all look at the latest bullshit fresh from the presses
You send the payment not to
[email protected] but to
[email protected] which is not an address where we accept payments.
PayPal should reverse your payment and it is now between you and PayPal. We have not received any funds from you.
You order 100040547 cannot be funded now. It was placed in April and now is July. Please place another order.
Best regards,
Sabina
BF Labs, Inc. Customer Service"
My money is going elsewhere, Btc is lowish that probably makes sense right now instead of hardware. By the way I only sent it there because my receipt for my other order had
[email protected] in paypal history. Maybe a little empathy could have fixed this but I interpreted the words above like "You fucked UP SOL, NOT MY PROBLEM!" But clearly, I used what would have been reasonable logic, but I'm being punished by losing my spot in line with your company. Oh well... you guys act like there is only one company out there but obviously Avalon was acting like this back in March and now look at them... real customer oriented businesses will come around and crush you guys.