By the way, where are my Jalepenos that I ordered 6 months ago?
The one I ordered in April arrived this week. So you should be very close if you ordered in late April.
Topic: Did BFL mine with my unit for 3 weeks before shipping it to me? - page 2. (Read 18868 times)
October 27, 2013, 10:56:51 PM
The one I ordered in April arrived this week. So you should be very close if you ordered in late April.
October 27, 2013, 07:19:41 PM
WTF Inaba 
Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name
Very mature dude
Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name Very mature dude
His name is already public knowledge, I didn't reveal anything he hasn't already revealed himself. Try to keep up, man. I know it's hard, what with the reading and all, but try to read above a 2nd grade level.
As I said,very mature
Just because that info was made public sometime ago,its not ok to repost it Your day will come,trust me 
BTW,I have to stoop to a 2nd grade level when reading your dribble
Go Fuck yourself,I can say that now that I have no orders with BFL
October 27, 2013, 06:02:31 PM
Please provide proof of how your information is publicly available.
Sure thing, hotpants:I'm really not sure it's possible for you to stoop any lower, or become more even reviled in this community by posting extrapolations like that. I would expect no less from you. Bravo.
I suppose it's really easy to make those connections in reverse when you have my billing info from being a prior customer, huh ?
Shameful behavior from a company figurehead, to be sure.
I think their bullshit is comming to an end....be quietly confident that Josh Zerlan's name is smeared all over the internet in the same manner as a dog wipes it arse on the carpet after a bad case of diarrhea..
He may have breached so many laws that its beyond the scope of what is supposed to
a) be morally correct
b) is the law
I just hope he has mined the living shit out btc with their personal mining operation as the prospect of him getting a job ANY where else is practically zero.
Being famous is nice but INFAMY lives on forever
October 27, 2013, 05:58:30 PM
Yeah, if I posted the kind of crap you do, I'd want to remain anonymous, too!
Ok, so lets recap again;
1 ) You abuse this community in a well documented fashion
2 ) I call you on it. In a most incendiary fashion after having been led on for months of broken promises at being an early adopter of your products.
3 ) You get upset and fire me as a customer. Force a refund on my orders.
4 ) I continue calling you on your poor behavior on these forums
5 ) You have since moved to deny refunds in violation of Federal Trade Comission rules.
6 ) Paypal has fired you.
7 ) Continue missing your shipping estimates.
8 ) You try to silence me, again, through intimidation, for continuing to shine the light on your unwavering contempt of this community and your own customers
And you have the audacity to sling an accusation of raving lunatic because I'm exposing you and holding you to account and making sure this community is aware of your history ? I need to most strenuously disagree with your personality assessment knowing full well the abuse you have doled out to your customers over the last year. If you repeatedly treat people badly, they are going to defend themselves and lash out eventually.
You cause people to lose significant amounts of money, you can bet they will inform the larger community of the anecdotes and experiences they have had with your enterprise, on basic principle.
You have only made yourself and Butterfly Labs look worse with this latest stunt of yours. I fear you lack the self-awareness to recognize this
Finally, thank you for admitting that you broke your own privacy policy.
October 27, 2013, 05:51:06 PM
Who's the psychotic one, again?
The link was for psychopathic not psychotic but either way it's still you.I know it's hard, what with the reading and all, but try to read above a 2nd grade level.
October 27, 2013, 05:44:32 PM
Yeah, if I posted the kind of crap you do, I'd want to remain anonymous, too!
Sorry man, if you want to act like a monkey flinging poo online, you aren't going to do it anonymously. Own it, Christian Antkow. Let the world know what a complete raving nutcase you are.
There's no working backwards. Here is you, associated with your account as you discuss your desire for pedophillia (No, I'm not kidding, Christian Antkow is seriously talking about pedophiles):
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2967154
Here, you post your own name:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2171173
Which you've since deleted, but luckily some happy people quoted you before you went back and edited out your raving nutbaggery:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2181148
So you see, you complete nutcase, you posted your own name on Bitcointalk. I revealed nothing that you haven't revealed publicly before. Don't blame me for your inability to comprehend how the internet works.
Sorry man, if you want to act like a monkey flinging poo online, you aren't going to do it anonymously. Own it, Christian Antkow. Let the world know what a complete raving nutcase you are.
There's no working backwards. Here is you, associated with your account as you discuss your desire for pedophillia (No, I'm not kidding, Christian Antkow is seriously talking about pedophiles):
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2967154
Here, you post your own name:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2171173
Which you've since deleted, but luckily some happy people quoted you before you went back and edited out your raving nutbaggery:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2181148
9 ) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=207331.0;all
Orders 2030, 2158, 1000033476 - Paid for via BTC - 4 x Single SC 60GH/s units
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On May 16, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Butterfly Labs Inc wrote:
Dear Christian,
It has been relayed to me that you are unhappy with our company and I was asked to cancel your orders. If you would send me a PayPal address I will send your money back to you ASAP.
Jody
BF Labs, Inc.
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My response;
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I am sorry, but that is erroneous.
I have never asked for, nor do I wish to receive a refund.
I have been patiently waiting for over 11 months now, and still have faith Butterfly Labs will deliver product.
Regards,
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On May 16, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Butterfly Labs Inc wrote:
Dear Christian,
It has been relayed to me that you are unhappy with our company and I was asked to cancel your orders. If you would send me a PayPal address I will send your money back to you ASAP.
Jody
BF Labs, Inc.
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My response;
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I am sorry, but that is erroneous.
I have never asked for, nor do I wish to receive a refund.
I have been patiently waiting for over 11 months now, and still have faith Butterfly Labs will deliver product.
Regards,
So you see, you complete nutcase, you posted your own name on Bitcointalk. I revealed nothing that you haven't revealed publicly before. Don't blame me for your inability to comprehend how the internet works.
October 27, 2013, 05:36:02 PM
Please provide proof of how your information is publicly available.
Sure thing, hotpants:I'm really not sure it's possible for you to stoop any lower, or become even more reviled in this community by posting extrapolations like that. I would expect no less from you. Bravo.
I suppose it's really easy to make those connections in reverse when you have my billing info from being a prior customer, huh ?
Shameful behavior from a company figurehead, to be sure.
October 27, 2013, 05:28:13 PM
WTF Inaba Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name
Very mature dude
His name is already public knowledge, I didn't reveal anything he hasn't already revealed himself. Try to keep up, man. I know it's hard, what with the reading and all, but try to read above a 2nd grade level. Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name Very mature dude
Please provide proof of how your information is publicly available.
Sure thing, hotpants:
http://www.caligirl.net/album/t-z/xian.html
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1026311291
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=10&time=20001216200132
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/2590/doom_iii_alpha_leak_id_s_statement/index.html
http://planetquake.gamespy.com/View.php?view=qscopes.detail&id=215
http://www.spiritofradio.ca/bbs/index.asp?URL=%2Fviewtopic.php&Redirect=f%3D9%26t%3D234
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Christian+Antkow?anv=Christian+'Xian'+Antkow
Should I go on? There's a veritable cornucopia of links associated with Xian and Christian Antkow.
As usual, you are the one that is mistaken. That seems to be a habit with you. BTW, how's that lawsuit coming? I haven't heard much after your sternly worded letter of ridiculous demands. Or is this another case of Brian "Fuck you machine" Micon, talking a bunch of crap but being completely unable to actually follow through?
October 27, 2013, 05:24:12 PM
WTF Inaba Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name
Very mature dude
His name is already public knowledge, I didn't reveal anything he hasn't already revealed himself. Try to keep up, man. I know it's hard, what with the reading and all, but try to read above a 2nd grade level. Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name Very mature dude
Please provide proof of how the information you are posting is publicly available.
I suspect you are mistaken. Again.
October 27, 2013, 05:21:59 PM
WTF Inaba Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name
Very mature dude
Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name Very mature dude
His name is already public knowledge, I didn't reveal anything he hasn't already revealed himself. Try to keep up, man. I know it's hard, what with the reading and all, but try to read above a 2nd grade level.
October 27, 2013, 05:03:58 PM
Wow, great one-sided attack. Classic, pick a fight with one person and focus on them. Typical bully boy tactics.
Read your own posts for insights into madness.
Read your own posts for insights into madness.
I need to vent for a minute, because I'm so fucking sick and tired of this when I have to modify someone elses code, or even look upon it.
If you code in 1TBS style, I fucking hate you. I hate you with every fiber of my being. I want to know what is wrong in your brain that makes you think that 1TBS is the "proper" or more "acceptable" way to style your code. Why are you so fucking dense and incapable of simple human comprehension of visual coding styles that you want to subject others to your shitbag, fucked up, illegible coding style? I fucking hate you. I FUCKING HATE YOU AND I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE. If I could reach through the internet and punch you in the face, I would. I would spend my days punching every single asshole who writes code in 1TBS style in the face... that would be my purpose in life and I would attack that purpose like a manic-depressive fat girl on a giant ham after her internet boyfriend left her for another lithe woodelf in a different guild.
I would sit, at my chair and spend 23 hours a day, taking only a single hour to sleep and eat and shit throughout a 24 hour day, punching you in the face. On Christmas and other holidays, I would treat myself and fly around around the world, with a satellite phone hooked up to my laptop on a chartered jet, punching each of you in the face over the internet, just so I could spend more than 24 hours in a single day punching you. I would have this jet fly with the setting sun, so I am always punching you just when you're sitting down to dinner, I would do this for nearly 48 hours straight, hopped up on Mt. Dew and Red Bull. This is how much I hate you.
On New Years, I would fly to Australia and spend the entire day punching the most egregious offenders of this fucked up indent style, then I would fly to back to the US and DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN ON THE SAME DAY.
Tell me, you 1TBS motherfuckers, tell me why you think your indent style is something even marginally approaching reasonable? It's fucked up. It is idiotic. IT IS COMPLETELY UNREADABLE. Why do you do it? Do you hate other people? Are you so antisocial that you can't get it through your head that it makes your code look like complete shit? Do you not understand that it makes debugging or following your code all but impossible? Do you think you are in 1970 where every single byte counts? What is it? What makes you think it's ok to indent like this?
That is fucking goddamned unreadable.
Pick a readable indent style. Allman makes the most sense:
Look. Gaze upon it. It's easy to follow. It's easy on the eyes. You can quickly see what bits of code belong to what controlling statment. You can see what opening brace matches with what closing brace. You can see what else matches with what if. You can see how many else statements there are. Seriously. Look at it. Now look back at your shitbag 1TBS code and tell me the same thing is true. You can't, because if you do you are a fucking liar. You're already an idiot for using 1TBS, don't make yourself a liar, too.
Now, go cry me a fucking river about how Allman takes up more room or some other line of complete bullshit. It's not about visually compacting your code, it's about MAKING IT FUCKING READABLE. Your shitbag style may be more compact, but guess what? WHO THE FUCK CARES? Nobody. Not a single fucking person on the planet will ever care how compact your code is. They care about whether it works. Then there's the poor fucking bastards that have to maintain it after you've gone off to spread your disease to other projects, and let me tell you, they do NOT FUCKING GIVE A SHIT how compact your code is. They care about it being readable and sensible. Your shitty style is neither. STOP. JUST STOP. Take your 1TBS style and stick it so far up your ass that it pops out the top of your head, hopefully taking the part of your brain with it that makes you think 1TBS is an acceptable indentation style.
Fuck you.
If you code in 1TBS style, I fucking hate you. I hate you with every fiber of my being. I want to know what is wrong in your brain that makes you think that 1TBS is the "proper" or more "acceptable" way to style your code. Why are you so fucking dense and incapable of simple human comprehension of visual coding styles that you want to subject others to your shitbag, fucked up, illegible coding style? I fucking hate you. I FUCKING HATE YOU AND I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE. If I could reach through the internet and punch you in the face, I would. I would spend my days punching every single asshole who writes code in 1TBS style in the face... that would be my purpose in life and I would attack that purpose like a manic-depressive fat girl on a giant ham after her internet boyfriend left her for another lithe woodelf in a different guild.
I would sit, at my chair and spend 23 hours a day, taking only a single hour to sleep and eat and shit throughout a 24 hour day, punching you in the face. On Christmas and other holidays, I would treat myself and fly around around the world, with a satellite phone hooked up to my laptop on a chartered jet, punching each of you in the face over the internet, just so I could spend more than 24 hours in a single day punching you. I would have this jet fly with the setting sun, so I am always punching you just when you're sitting down to dinner, I would do this for nearly 48 hours straight, hopped up on Mt. Dew and Red Bull. This is how much I hate you.
On New Years, I would fly to Australia and spend the entire day punching the most egregious offenders of this fucked up indent style, then I would fly to back to the US and DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN ON THE SAME DAY.
Tell me, you 1TBS motherfuckers, tell me why you think your indent style is something even marginally approaching reasonable? It's fucked up. It is idiotic. IT IS COMPLETELY UNREADABLE. Why do you do it? Do you hate other people? Are you so antisocial that you can't get it through your head that it makes your code look like complete shit? Do you not understand that it makes debugging or following your code all but impossible? Do you think you are in 1970 where every single byte counts? What is it? What makes you think it's ok to indent like this?
Code:
// most of the protocols are followed by ://, but mailto: and sometimes news: not, check for it
if ( in_array( $bits['scheme'] . '://', $wgUrlProtocols ) ) {
$bits['delimiter'] = '://';
} elseif ( in_array( $bits['scheme'] . ':', $wgUrlProtocols ) ) {
$bits['delimiter'] = ':';
// parse_url detects for news: and mailto: the host part of an url as path
// We have to correct this wrong detection
if ( isset( $bits['path'] ) ) {
$bits['host'] = $bits['path'];
$bits['path'] = '';
}
} else {
return false;
}
That is fucking goddamned unreadable.
Pick a readable indent style. Allman makes the most sense:
Code:
// most of the protocols are followed by ://, but mailto: and sometimes news: not, check for it
if ( in_array( $bits['scheme'] . '://', $wgUrlProtocols ) )
{
$bits['delimiter'] = '://';
}
elseif ( in_array( $bits['scheme'] . ':', $wgUrlProtocols ) )
{
$bits['delimiter'] = ':';
// parse_url detects for news: and mailto: the host part of an url as path
// We have to correct this wrong detection
if ( isset( $bits['path'] ) )
{
$bits['host'] = $bits['path'];
$bits['path'] = '';
}
}
else
{
return false;
}
Look. Gaze upon it. It's easy to follow. It's easy on the eyes. You can quickly see what bits of code belong to what controlling statment. You can see what opening brace matches with what closing brace. You can see what else matches with what if. You can see how many else statements there are. Seriously. Look at it. Now look back at your shitbag 1TBS code and tell me the same thing is true. You can't, because if you do you are a fucking liar. You're already an idiot for using 1TBS, don't make yourself a liar, too.
Now, go cry me a fucking river about how Allman takes up more room or some other line of complete bullshit. It's not about visually compacting your code, it's about MAKING IT FUCKING READABLE. Your shitbag style may be more compact, but guess what? WHO THE FUCK CARES? Nobody. Not a single fucking person on the planet will ever care how compact your code is. They care about whether it works. Then there's the poor fucking bastards that have to maintain it after you've gone off to spread your disease to other projects, and let me tell you, they do NOT FUCKING GIVE A SHIT how compact your code is. They care about it being readable and sensible. Your shitty style is neither. STOP. JUST STOP. Take your 1TBS style and stick it so far up your ass that it pops out the top of your head, hopefully taking the part of your brain with it that makes you think 1TBS is an acceptable indentation style.
Fuck you.
October 27, 2013, 04:48:32 PM
WTF Inaba Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name
Very mature dude
Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name Very mature dude
I don't think for the past month they would mess with a 60, I would think it would be mini-rigs they would be using if doing that. But you never know.
It is sad to see someone connected with a company using someones info, i sure hope it was not a BFL customer.
October 27, 2013, 04:08:55 PM
WTF Inaba Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name
Very mature dude
Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name Very mature dude
It's as a warning to any other victims of the BFL scam, that if they dare to criticize the shit-flinging Inaba monkey, they too will be outed.
October 27, 2013, 04:06:19 PM
Classy.
Guess they don't even adhere to their own privacy policies now.
Guess they don't even adhere to their own privacy policies now.
October 27, 2013, 03:53:28 PM
WTF Inaba Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name
Very mature dude
Why are you giving out personal information IE:useing a persons REAL name Very mature dude
October 27, 2013, 03:33:51 PM
The main factor fuelling all these threads is the recurring theme of Josh being a deceptive, unhelpful, nasty individual. The whole story would have been totally different with a public figure who knew how to interact with people and isn't cynical in his use of language, manipulation of dates and shows a willingness to be frank with information regarding delays and the size of the company's order book.
The lesson learnt for me is only give money to people who are honest.
The lesson learnt for me is only give money to people who are honest.
Very well said.
The sad part is that Josh displays all those negative traits as a gleaming, proud badge-of-honor, and people keep throwing money at them and defending them like some ignorant, weak-minded Stockholm-Syndrome sufferers.
Josh displays all the classic symptoms psychopathy. Don't take my word for it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Absolutely unforgivable and despicable behavior; a damning indictment of the entire company that they allow and support their public figurehead to act in such an unprofessional and off-putting manner.
Quite possibly one of the most conniving people I have ever had the displeasure of doing business with.
Caveat emptor.
In that case, can we just start an "I hate Josh" thread so that the forum isn't littered with thread after thread of BFL rage? All anyone is doing is beating a dead horse, makes the community look like a bunch of whiners. Avalon folks have a lot more to be pissed at. Believe you-me, I'm not defending them as I would much rather have gotten my hardware when it would still earn back what I paid, but at what point is enough... enough?
I say this with all sincerity. I work with a group and when trying to bring another friend into the fold his main dispute with BTC is that, with the largest portion of the community you can find in one place being the mining/hardware group, it looked like the entire community is full of petulant babies who can't accept losses and move on to other more meaningful things. If people spent half the time trying to do something good for BTC that they spent kicking the same dead horse we might actually see more mainstream Bitcoin adoption, but instead everyone has to play the game of "What will the anti-BFL post be this week?".
Or better yet, if you hate BFL that much, let the public record stand. Stop giving them publicity. Talk about other hardware vendors and how they screwed up. It seems like people feel validated to have an Inaba post show up just so they can say "SEE?! SEE?! THERE IS THE DEVIL HIMSELF!".
Well, at least someone on this forum can use their brains. Thanks Reactor, well said.
Anyway, as far as Xian calling me a psychopath, lets take a look at Xian nee Christian Antkow, shall we?
This is pure Christopher Antkow at his finest. All of these quotes are unedited quotes directly from the horses mouth, so to speak.
Quote
This is a blatant and outright conflict of interest.
In a professional organization, Josh would be instantly fired for doing something like this.
Given that BFL is run by a convicted felon, should it really surprise anyone that one of his underlings is operating with questionable ethics as well ?
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Bullshit Fabrication continues.
"The ASIC team has promised me pictures of the wafer tomorrow, Tuesday the 26th. As soon as I get those, I will be posting them."
26th has come and gone with no update.
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Respectfully, how about you get off these forums, stop with your piss war, and update the official BFL forums thread on what is going on with our orders.
You are making your company look like a bunch of insecure, bumbling and posturing buffoons.
Christ dude, be thankful you are working for a private company, because your ass would be fucking fired for how you are conducting yourself as a representative of your
company were it a public entity.
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Josh.
For fucks sake.
Can't you act professionally ?
You are in ABSOLUTELY NO POSITION TO BE FLINGING SHIT HERE IN THESE FORUMS.
NONE. ZERO. ZILCH.
YOUR CREDIBILITY IS NON-EXISTANT.
Thank FSM your boss allows you such a long leash. You'd be fucking destroyed in any real professional corporate environment held to any base standards of accountability.
Shame on you.
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Holy shit dude. Be careful throwing stones from your glass house !!!
The only thing more pathetic than PL around here is your management of this whole BFL ASIC fiasco.
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Josh claiming on BFL chat last night that they shipped just seemed really disingenuous and slimy. Par for the course as far as Josh goes I suppose.
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If I can get a guarantee that Theymos and the bitcointalk admins will allow negative ads towards BFL, I'll donate a full BTC in protest.
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Nevermind about anti-BFL PSA's.
I have half a mind to investigate the pros/cons of a class action lawsuit against them at the moment.
Starting to get really pissed off. Have never seen a company I have given so much money to, act so unprofessionally before.
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He won't tell us anything. He's too busy silencing dissent on the BFL shout-box and refusing to answer difficult, pointed questions.
Dude just plain does not give a fuck about this place, his behavior, his customers, or his companies public image.
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Josh.
I say this with sincerity.
Get help.
You can rest assured that once BFL ships my back-orders, you will never see another penny from me ever again.
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Not sure about any BFL Wafers breaking, but judging from Josh's behavior on the forums lately, I think his mind may be breaking.
Can anyone over there at BFL try to slip some lithium or anti-psychotics in his drinks, please ?
It is just absolutely mind-boggling how his leash-holders allow him to continue like he does in public. Has developed this split-personality complex that
Inaba/BFL_Josh-Zerlan are two different personalities !
I mean name calling ? Is he still in grade school ? This is the public face of Butterfly Labs ?
For shame !
EDIT: Speak of waffles, perhaps we should send Josh a Blue Waffle ?
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Kinda like your October or November 2012 shipping dates were wrong and "misrepresentation" ?
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So, Mr. Zerlan. Care to explain further about "so many lies and deceit perpetrated by people with agendas, unbalanced sense of reality or just plain crazy"
It would seem clear to me that YOUR agenda is to shirk all responsibility or honor for your prior commitments.
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You have absolutely no license or credibility to speak about having a firm grasp of reality.
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Way to evade again, Josh. So when are you going to do the honorable thing and honor the bet ?
Clearly, you have not met your power targets despite all your previous hubris.
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IANAL. However. There are mountains of documentation across various forums, that up until very very recently, they never had a working physical prototype, and originally
made the claim to be shipping in October of 2012.
If that is not deceptive / fraudulent, I don't know what is.
I would imagine they are completely in a position to have a Judge approve a class-action suit brought against them, and the plaintiffs stand a very good chance at compensation
due to the well documented development circus and constant delays.
And lets not forget that the Minirig SC is no longer available, and they've reorganized their entire product lineup from what they originally offered for sale because their
processes up until now have been such a farce.
EDIT: And I just wanted to add that given Josh's public taunting and ill-behavior, the Judge would have a cause to award additional punitive damages against Butterfly Labs.
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I would tread very carefully bro. Lets not bring the FCC into this.
Also, are you not both COO and CTO ? Sincere apologies if I have not gotten those facts straight.
I may be a "troll asshole customer" in your eyes, but I'll happily eat crow if I'm in error.
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So what you are inferring is if one were to get on Josh's bad-side, their order might be delayed or lost as well ?
Interesting how both BitSyncom and Josh are so seemingly alike.
Josh threatened to adjust my orders in the queue just yesterday before he silenced me on the Butterfly Labs shoutbox.
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Not only is Josh Zerlan / Inaba their CTO, he's also their COO !!!
Dude is going to have a really tough time finding another job after Butterfly Labs, due the mountains of impropriety and unprofessionalism that has been so thoroughly
documented here.
Could not happen to a nicer guy.
... and dude has the fucking gall to call people who ask harsh/pointed questions "trolls"
The man has a complete lack of meta-cognition or modicum of self-awareness.
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I confirmed my orders as well. It's unfortunate to see people supporting and applauding Josh's unprofessionalism on these forums.
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Josh Zerlan is not aware of things enough to know this. In fact, he fancies himself the fattest sow in the mudhole.
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This sums up Josh Zerlan's delusional professional outlook quite succinctly. "Conditional Customer Service".
And you know what the saddest part about all of that, is that in Josh's mind, he probably feels 100% unwaveringly justified in having that attitude due to a complete and
utter lack of self-awareness and a firm mental rooting in his own virtual reality.
I mean, if he's going to have his megalomaniacal temper tantrums and silence customers on their forums / shoutbox with thousands of dollars in preorders, then there is just
no dealing with the man. Professionally or otherwise.
Dude has "loose-cannon" written all over him. It's people like him that sink companies unless management gets things in check pronto.
... and remember folks. Josh himself recently admitted that these forums are not relevant to their business at all, which begs the question "Why does he continue posting
here if he does not consider this place important ? Why does he continue advertising here ?"
Calling Josh Zerlan a "scummy fuck" is a pretty accurate salvo.
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... but, you post lies, bullshit, and are arguably one of the biggest dicks on these forums, so, it's quite the viscous circle you have created, huh ?
Just thought I would take the liberty of showing you a mirror.
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... and you are the competent and experienced CTO and COO of a company that acts in a professional manner or knows what they are doing ? Sure, we believe you... no really.
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Quote from: Inaba on May 05, 2013, 05:48:23 PM
Let me know your order numbers, I will be happy to get your refund taken care of right away.
Josh, throw me a bone here... Do you at least recognize how completely unprofessional and anti-customer this sort of attitude is ?
Do you even care ?
I mean, I'm not telling you how to run your business, but you are playing an extremely dangerous game with this sort of brazen attitude.
You are essentially telling everyone here on these forums "We have you, our customers, bent over, and you just need to keep taking it with this Kong Dong of Penetration +2. Fuck you. I don't care about your orders or your business. We'll happily refund your money because we have more masochistic suckers lined up to fill the vacuum of your refund."
And you are the COO of Butterfly Labs ?
Am I far off ?
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I'd rather he stop making excuses, show some humility, and stop taunting us with such pompous braggadocio whilst having thousands of our dollars in his coffers worth of preorders.
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I'll just leave this here...
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Fuck you asshole. Where the fuck do you think your first customers came from ?
Eat a bag of dicks.
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Xian (Edit · Delete) 05-01-2013 03:56 PM
So Josh, when are you going to pay the 1000 BTC bet for not meeting 1W/Ghash ? Or are you waiting until you guys get down to 1W/Ghash until you tell everyone to go fuck themselves and say "I TOLD YOU SO!!!" ?
BFL_Josh - 05-01-2013 03:58 PM
Xian: Your trolling pisses me off, but to answer your question, as soon as we get time to take care of it, we will. It's not like we aren't already overworked and it's not exactly a high priority at the moment... however, if you have an order, let me know what it is and I will be sure to put yours on hold when we get to it and work dilligently on the donation thing before we get back to yours.
Xian (Edit · Delete) 05-01-2013 03:58 PM
BFL_Josh: Hey, thanks for threatening your customers ! I appreciate it !
Xian silenced successfully.
BFL_Josh - 05-01-2013 03:59 PM
No problem, thanks for being an annoying troll.
BFL_Josh - Shout 05-01-2013 03:59 PM
Xian silenced successfully.
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Is it just me, or is anyone else laughing that Josh Zerlan refers to himself as "The Josh" ?
He's gone straight from Douche to Ultra-Mega-Douche, bypassing Douche-Bag, Super-Douche, and Giant-Douche altogether !
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Two days and no responses from any staff ?
And Josh wonders why he gets trolled so viciously ?
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Quote from: erk on May 12, 2013, 10:54:56 AM
Don't you think Wired magazine or the author of cgminer are credible?
It would be more credible if cklovias got the Jally; Kano just comes across as a bragging douche-nozzle and, tangentially, probably does more harm to BFL's image than good out of the Jally deal.
Giving one to Wired / Media was a transparent attempt at trying to regain a semblance of legitimacy in the public eye; Josh Zerlan has admitted these forums and patrons are not important to their business so it's pretty evident they are in full-on damage control/survival mode now.
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I need to respectfully disagree. I would take it a step further and argue there are not enough variations of photos of Josh with a clown-nose.
The man did it entirely to himself.
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I'm surprised Josh has not nuked that entire thread from orbit in a fit of rage.
I'm pretty much willing to bet that I'll received my 20 Erupter USB sticks before my day one BFL Single SC 60 GH/s unit pre-order ships.
Pathetic.
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Quote from: hardpick on May 14, 2013, 01:00:24 AM
Bashing Josh is not going to get us anywhere and IMO makes thing worst –he has to spend time defending himself instead of focusing on geting products out the door.
Perhaps Josh should have thought of the consequences of his chest-puffing, posturing, hubris, ignorance, myopia, inexperience, and a trail of broken promises spanning the globe over the last 8 months.
Schadenfreude, in this case, is completely justified.
Especially if you are a multiple pre-order customer waiting to take delivery of a product we have ordered almost a year ago.
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And Josh Zerlan is a paragon of accuracy and truth ?
Respectfully, there is probably more accuracy in my conjectures that Josh's prior attempts at stating fact.
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TL;DR: Josh "Inaba" Zerlan, COO of Butterfly Labs, taunts Bitcointalk forum members. I call him out on his behavior in an incendiary fashion. He tells Jody to cancel my orders (#s 2030, 2158 & 100033486). Check posting history. Is this the kind of company you want to be doing business with in America ?
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I've never felt this abused as a customer before. Filed a complaint with the Missouri AG Customer Complaints dept and the FTC Complaints Dept. Provided a Paypal address to office@bfl to get refunded for $4,698 (edit: refund processed)
Sorry for getting all fired up like that, forum-denizens. I hit a frustration limit I've never experienced before when purchasing products, and way overreacted.
Lessons learned, if I'm going to be critical of a company I plan to do business with, I should probably choose a moniker that they can't trace back to their customer database.
If you are a former, or current customer of Butterfly Labs, and are disgruntled and fed up with how they have conducted themselves over the last year, I would urge you to contact the following agencies and filing formal complaints.
The more light we shed on Butterfly Labs' business practices, the more chance we have to effect positive change and hold them to anything resembling responsible accountability to their customers.
https://www.consumer.ago.mo.gov/ - Missouri Attorney General Customer Complaints Deptartment
https://econsumer.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ - Federal Trade Commission Customer Complaint form
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/re-butterfly-labs-ceo-25-million-usd-mail-fraud-a-concise-summary-of-evidence-110805 - "Butterfly Labs CEO 25 Million USD Mail Fraud — A Concise Summary of Evidence" is a good thread highlighting historical issues with Butterfly Labs' officers that should document concerns and facts.
I would urge you to not openly complain on these forums if there is any way Butterfly Labs can trace it back to your orders with them. They have demonstrated a will to punitively cancel and refund orders.
Finally, I would be lying if I didn't have a slight concern of someone affiliated with BFL showing up on my doorstep and confronting me for creating this thread, seeing as how they know where I live, given their checkered history. But lets just hope that's my paranoia kicking in.
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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1897893
Inaba @ April 20, 2013, 05:06:30 PM: "BFL has given up on Bitcointalk, so don't expect any official communication from BFL here."
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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2228269
Inaba @ May.21.2013 @ 05:49:33 PM : "4 @ 5.75"
Spending ~$2,881.90 to advertise on a forum that they have "given up on" is the textbook definition of cognitive dissonance.
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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bfl-offers-1000-btc-back-up-on-power-claims-119338
An unpaid bet of 1,000 BTC still remains over BFL missing their power consumption by at least a factor of 5, with no movement being made to honor the charity donation. The unpaid bet has resulted in calls for Inaba to be branded with a Scammer tag.
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Similar experience - "I was just banned from BFL forums" - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/i-was-just-banned-from-bfl-forums-214250
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Is Sonny Chris Vleisides not a felon ? Again, if I am in error with those facts, I'll be the first to stick my foot in my mouth and apologize. Am I an asshole for raising that point ? Probably. Slow-burn frustration has a way of making one exceptionally bitter on a long enough timeline when money has been put up in good-faith.
Please point out the post where I state they still need to prove they are not a scam. That does not sound like something I would say, considering I don't believe they are a scam and already own one of their products. Shady ? Sure. A scam ? Verifiably not, so far.
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Correction: Using bureaucratic agencies to shed light on a company that openly has contempt for it's customers, fires those customers after they've endured one delay after another, one broken promise after another, more taunting and unprofessionalism from an officer of the company - after calling them out on it in a public forum. This is not normal behavior to see from a product developer. I don't know what country you live in, or what other companies you have dealt with that treated you similarly, and think it's OK.
In retrospect, I should indeed have taken a refund sooner rather than having one forced on me. Captain Hindsight and so on and so forth.
In a professional organization, Josh would be instantly fired for doing something like this.
Given that BFL is run by a convicted felon, should it really surprise anyone that one of his underlings is operating with questionable ethics as well ?
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Bullshit Fabrication continues.
"The ASIC team has promised me pictures of the wafer tomorrow, Tuesday the 26th. As soon as I get those, I will be posting them."
26th has come and gone with no update.
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Respectfully, how about you get off these forums, stop with your piss war, and update the official BFL forums thread on what is going on with our orders.
You are making your company look like a bunch of insecure, bumbling and posturing buffoons.
Christ dude, be thankful you are working for a private company, because your ass would be fucking fired for how you are conducting yourself as a representative of your
company were it a public entity.
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Josh.
For fucks sake.
Can't you act professionally ?
You are in ABSOLUTELY NO POSITION TO BE FLINGING SHIT HERE IN THESE FORUMS.
NONE. ZERO. ZILCH.
YOUR CREDIBILITY IS NON-EXISTANT.
Thank FSM your boss allows you such a long leash. You'd be fucking destroyed in any real professional corporate environment held to any base standards of accountability.
Shame on you.
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Holy shit dude. Be careful throwing stones from your glass house !!!
The only thing more pathetic than PL around here is your management of this whole BFL ASIC fiasco.
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Josh claiming on BFL chat last night that they shipped just seemed really disingenuous and slimy. Par for the course as far as Josh goes I suppose.
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If I can get a guarantee that Theymos and the bitcointalk admins will allow negative ads towards BFL, I'll donate a full BTC in protest.
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Nevermind about anti-BFL PSA's.
I have half a mind to investigate the pros/cons of a class action lawsuit against them at the moment.
Starting to get really pissed off. Have never seen a company I have given so much money to, act so unprofessionally before.
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He won't tell us anything. He's too busy silencing dissent on the BFL shout-box and refusing to answer difficult, pointed questions.
Dude just plain does not give a fuck about this place, his behavior, his customers, or his companies public image.
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Josh.
I say this with sincerity.
Get help.
You can rest assured that once BFL ships my back-orders, you will never see another penny from me ever again.
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Not sure about any BFL Wafers breaking, but judging from Josh's behavior on the forums lately, I think his mind may be breaking.
Can anyone over there at BFL try to slip some lithium or anti-psychotics in his drinks, please ?
It is just absolutely mind-boggling how his leash-holders allow him to continue like he does in public. Has developed this split-personality complex that
Inaba/BFL_Josh-Zerlan are two different personalities !
I mean name calling ? Is he still in grade school ? This is the public face of Butterfly Labs ?
For shame !
EDIT: Speak of waffles, perhaps we should send Josh a Blue Waffle ?
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Kinda like your October or November 2012 shipping dates were wrong and "misrepresentation" ?
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So, Mr. Zerlan. Care to explain further about "so many lies and deceit perpetrated by people with agendas, unbalanced sense of reality or just plain crazy"
It would seem clear to me that YOUR agenda is to shirk all responsibility or honor for your prior commitments.
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You have absolutely no license or credibility to speak about having a firm grasp of reality.
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Way to evade again, Josh. So when are you going to do the honorable thing and honor the bet ?
Clearly, you have not met your power targets despite all your previous hubris.
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IANAL. However. There are mountains of documentation across various forums, that up until very very recently, they never had a working physical prototype, and originally
made the claim to be shipping in October of 2012.
If that is not deceptive / fraudulent, I don't know what is.
I would imagine they are completely in a position to have a Judge approve a class-action suit brought against them, and the plaintiffs stand a very good chance at compensation
due to the well documented development circus and constant delays.
And lets not forget that the Minirig SC is no longer available, and they've reorganized their entire product lineup from what they originally offered for sale because their
processes up until now have been such a farce.
EDIT: And I just wanted to add that given Josh's public taunting and ill-behavior, the Judge would have a cause to award additional punitive damages against Butterfly Labs.
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I would tread very carefully bro. Lets not bring the FCC into this.
Also, are you not both COO and CTO ? Sincere apologies if I have not gotten those facts straight.
I may be a "troll asshole customer" in your eyes, but I'll happily eat crow if I'm in error.
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So what you are inferring is if one were to get on Josh's bad-side, their order might be delayed or lost as well ?
Interesting how both BitSyncom and Josh are so seemingly alike.
Josh threatened to adjust my orders in the queue just yesterday before he silenced me on the Butterfly Labs shoutbox.
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Not only is Josh Zerlan / Inaba their CTO, he's also their COO !!!
Dude is going to have a really tough time finding another job after Butterfly Labs, due the mountains of impropriety and unprofessionalism that has been so thoroughly
documented here.
Could not happen to a nicer guy.
... and dude has the fucking gall to call people who ask harsh/pointed questions "trolls"
The man has a complete lack of meta-cognition or modicum of self-awareness.
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I confirmed my orders as well. It's unfortunate to see people supporting and applauding Josh's unprofessionalism on these forums.
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Josh Zerlan is not aware of things enough to know this. In fact, he fancies himself the fattest sow in the mudhole.
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This sums up Josh Zerlan's delusional professional outlook quite succinctly. "Conditional Customer Service".
And you know what the saddest part about all of that, is that in Josh's mind, he probably feels 100% unwaveringly justified in having that attitude due to a complete and
utter lack of self-awareness and a firm mental rooting in his own virtual reality.
I mean, if he's going to have his megalomaniacal temper tantrums and silence customers on their forums / shoutbox with thousands of dollars in preorders, then there is just
no dealing with the man. Professionally or otherwise.
Dude has "loose-cannon" written all over him. It's people like him that sink companies unless management gets things in check pronto.
... and remember folks. Josh himself recently admitted that these forums are not relevant to their business at all, which begs the question "Why does he continue posting
here if he does not consider this place important ? Why does he continue advertising here ?"
Calling Josh Zerlan a "scummy fuck" is a pretty accurate salvo.
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... but, you post lies, bullshit, and are arguably one of the biggest dicks on these forums, so, it's quite the viscous circle you have created, huh ?
Just thought I would take the liberty of showing you a mirror.
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... and you are the competent and experienced CTO and COO of a company that acts in a professional manner or knows what they are doing ? Sure, we believe you... no really.
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Quote from: Inaba on May 05, 2013, 05:48:23 PM
Let me know your order numbers, I will be happy to get your refund taken care of right away.
Josh, throw me a bone here... Do you at least recognize how completely unprofessional and anti-customer this sort of attitude is ?
Do you even care ?
I mean, I'm not telling you how to run your business, but you are playing an extremely dangerous game with this sort of brazen attitude.
You are essentially telling everyone here on these forums "We have you, our customers, bent over, and you just need to keep taking it with this Kong Dong of Penetration +2. Fuck you. I don't care about your orders or your business. We'll happily refund your money because we have more masochistic suckers lined up to fill the vacuum of your refund."
And you are the COO of Butterfly Labs ?
Am I far off ?
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I'd rather he stop making excuses, show some humility, and stop taunting us with such pompous braggadocio whilst having thousands of our dollars in his coffers worth of preorders.
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I'll just leave this here...
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Fuck you asshole. Where the fuck do you think your first customers came from ?
Eat a bag of dicks.
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Xian (Edit · Delete) 05-01-2013 03:56 PM
So Josh, when are you going to pay the 1000 BTC bet for not meeting 1W/Ghash ? Or are you waiting until you guys get down to 1W/Ghash until you tell everyone to go fuck themselves and say "I TOLD YOU SO!!!" ?
BFL_Josh - 05-01-2013 03:58 PM
Xian: Your trolling pisses me off, but to answer your question, as soon as we get time to take care of it, we will. It's not like we aren't already overworked and it's not exactly a high priority at the moment... however, if you have an order, let me know what it is and I will be sure to put yours on hold when we get to it and work dilligently on the donation thing before we get back to yours.
Xian (Edit · Delete) 05-01-2013 03:58 PM
BFL_Josh: Hey, thanks for threatening your customers ! I appreciate it !
Xian silenced successfully.
BFL_Josh - 05-01-2013 03:59 PM
No problem, thanks for being an annoying troll.
BFL_Josh - Shout 05-01-2013 03:59 PM
Xian silenced successfully.
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Is it just me, or is anyone else laughing that Josh Zerlan refers to himself as "The Josh" ?
He's gone straight from Douche to Ultra-Mega-Douche, bypassing Douche-Bag, Super-Douche, and Giant-Douche altogether !
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Two days and no responses from any staff ?
And Josh wonders why he gets trolled so viciously ?
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Quote from: erk on May 12, 2013, 10:54:56 AM
Don't you think Wired magazine or the author of cgminer are credible?
It would be more credible if cklovias got the Jally; Kano just comes across as a bragging douche-nozzle and, tangentially, probably does more harm to BFL's image than good out of the Jally deal.
Giving one to Wired / Media was a transparent attempt at trying to regain a semblance of legitimacy in the public eye; Josh Zerlan has admitted these forums and patrons are not important to their business so it's pretty evident they are in full-on damage control/survival mode now.
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I need to respectfully disagree. I would take it a step further and argue there are not enough variations of photos of Josh with a clown-nose.
The man did it entirely to himself.
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I'm surprised Josh has not nuked that entire thread from orbit in a fit of rage.
I'm pretty much willing to bet that I'll received my 20 Erupter USB sticks before my day one BFL Single SC 60 GH/s unit pre-order ships.
Pathetic.
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Quote from: hardpick on May 14, 2013, 01:00:24 AM
Bashing Josh is not going to get us anywhere and IMO makes thing worst –he has to spend time defending himself instead of focusing on geting products out the door.
Perhaps Josh should have thought of the consequences of his chest-puffing, posturing, hubris, ignorance, myopia, inexperience, and a trail of broken promises spanning the globe over the last 8 months.
Schadenfreude, in this case, is completely justified.
Especially if you are a multiple pre-order customer waiting to take delivery of a product we have ordered almost a year ago.
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And Josh Zerlan is a paragon of accuracy and truth ?
Respectfully, there is probably more accuracy in my conjectures that Josh's prior attempts at stating fact.
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TL;DR: Josh "Inaba" Zerlan, COO of Butterfly Labs, taunts Bitcointalk forum members. I call him out on his behavior in an incendiary fashion. He tells Jody to cancel my orders (#s 2030, 2158 & 100033486). Check posting history. Is this the kind of company you want to be doing business with in America ?
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I've never felt this abused as a customer before. Filed a complaint with the Missouri AG Customer Complaints dept and the FTC Complaints Dept. Provided a Paypal address to office@bfl to get refunded for $4,698 (edit: refund processed)
Sorry for getting all fired up like that, forum-denizens. I hit a frustration limit I've never experienced before when purchasing products, and way overreacted.
Lessons learned, if I'm going to be critical of a company I plan to do business with, I should probably choose a moniker that they can't trace back to their customer database.
If you are a former, or current customer of Butterfly Labs, and are disgruntled and fed up with how they have conducted themselves over the last year, I would urge you to contact the following agencies and filing formal complaints.
The more light we shed on Butterfly Labs' business practices, the more chance we have to effect positive change and hold them to anything resembling responsible accountability to their customers.
https://www.consumer.ago.mo.gov/ - Missouri Attorney General Customer Complaints Deptartment
https://econsumer.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ - Federal Trade Commission Customer Complaint form
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/re-butterfly-labs-ceo-25-million-usd-mail-fraud-a-concise-summary-of-evidence-110805 - "Butterfly Labs CEO 25 Million USD Mail Fraud — A Concise Summary of Evidence" is a good thread highlighting historical issues with Butterfly Labs' officers that should document concerns and facts.
I would urge you to not openly complain on these forums if there is any way Butterfly Labs can trace it back to your orders with them. They have demonstrated a will to punitively cancel and refund orders.
Finally, I would be lying if I didn't have a slight concern of someone affiliated with BFL showing up on my doorstep and confronting me for creating this thread, seeing as how they know where I live, given their checkered history. But lets just hope that's my paranoia kicking in.
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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1897893
Inaba @ April 20, 2013, 05:06:30 PM: "BFL has given up on Bitcointalk, so don't expect any official communication from BFL here."
vs
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2228269
Inaba @ May.21.2013 @ 05:49:33 PM : "4 @ 5.75"
Spending ~$2,881.90 to advertise on a forum that they have "given up on" is the textbook definition of cognitive dissonance.
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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bfl-offers-1000-btc-back-up-on-power-claims-119338
An unpaid bet of 1,000 BTC still remains over BFL missing their power consumption by at least a factor of 5, with no movement being made to honor the charity donation. The unpaid bet has resulted in calls for Inaba to be branded with a Scammer tag.
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Similar experience - "I was just banned from BFL forums" - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/i-was-just-banned-from-bfl-forums-214250
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Is Sonny Chris Vleisides not a felon ? Again, if I am in error with those facts, I'll be the first to stick my foot in my mouth and apologize. Am I an asshole for raising that point ? Probably. Slow-burn frustration has a way of making one exceptionally bitter on a long enough timeline when money has been put up in good-faith.
Please point out the post where I state they still need to prove they are not a scam. That does not sound like something I would say, considering I don't believe they are a scam and already own one of their products. Shady ? Sure. A scam ? Verifiably not, so far.
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Correction: Using bureaucratic agencies to shed light on a company that openly has contempt for it's customers, fires those customers after they've endured one delay after another, one broken promise after another, more taunting and unprofessionalism from an officer of the company - after calling them out on it in a public forum. This is not normal behavior to see from a product developer. I don't know what country you live in, or what other companies you have dealt with that treated you similarly, and think it's OK.
In retrospect, I should indeed have taken a refund sooner rather than having one forced on me. Captain Hindsight and so on and so forth.
Who's the psychotic one, again?
October 27, 2013, 01:00:10 PM
If part of his job is customer service, managing customer relationships, and speaking on behalf of BFL, he's not very good at it. That's the reason everyone "dislikes" him.
How hard is it to ignore the trolls, mudslinging and namecalling? Simply present the information in a professional manner and be done with it. Post #8 was a perfect example. Just do that, all the time.
It's not rocket science, Josh.
How hard is it to ignore the trolls, mudslinging and namecalling? Simply present the information in a professional manner and be done with it. Post #8 was a perfect example. Just do that, all the time.
It's not rocket science, Josh.
October 27, 2013, 12:55:40 PM
I’m inclined to believe Josh’s categorical denial that BFL mines. If this was something they always did with all customer equipment I would guess other hard evidence would have surfaced by now. Not sure how long they have been attaching these stickers on the bottom of the PCBs but its pretty easy for people to check their units and see how these dates compare to their ship date.
Why would you trust the dates they put on labels any more than you trust anything else BFL says? They could write anything they wanted on that. Maybe it was hashing for three months instead of three weeks. You don't know. You do know, though, that "new" electronics don't arrive with dust inside them.
October 27, 2013, 12:42:50 PM
Or better yet, if you hate BFL that much, let the public record stand. Stop giving them publicity. Talk about other hardware vendors and how they screwed up. It seems like people feel validated to have an Inaba post show up just so they can say "SEE?! SEE?! THERE IS THE DEVIL HIMSELF!".
Or even better, petition Theymos to suspend his account. That would put an end to him publicising his ego and retelling history on these pages, and the recurring outcry from the whiners/customers who can't stand the bullshit. We all know why that won't happen. This forum is funded by mining and the silly money we've all spent on it. It's all very ironic.
Satoshi messed up making the mining reward so high. Life was better and more democratic when everyone was CPU mining.
October 27, 2013, 12:36:12 PM
The main factor fuelling all these threads is the recurring theme of Josh being a deceptive, unhelpful, nasty individual. The whole story would have been totally different with a public figure who knew how to interact with people and isn't cynical in his use of language, manipulation of dates and shows a willingness to be frank with information regarding delays and the size of the company's order book.
The lesson learnt for me is only give money to people who are honest.
The lesson learnt for me is only give money to people who are honest.
Very well said.
The sad part is that Josh displays all those negative traits as a gleaming, proud badge-of-honor, and people keep throwing money at them and defending them like some ignorant, weak-minded Stockholm-Syndrome sufferers.
Josh displays all the classic symptoms psychopathy. Don't take my word for it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Absolutely unforgivable and despicable behavior; a damning indictment of the entire company that they allow and support their public figurehead to act in such an unprofessional and off-putting manner.
Quite possibly one of the most conniving people I have ever had the displeasure of doing business with.
Caveat emptor.
In that case, can we just start an "I hate Josh" thread so that the forum isn't littered with thread after thread of BFL rage? All anyone is doing is beating a dead horse, makes the community look like a bunch of whiners. Avalon folks have a lot more to be pissed at. Believe you-me, I'm not defending them as I would much rather have gotten my hardware when it would still earn back what I paid, but at what point is enough... enough?
I say this with all sincerity. I work with a group and when trying to bring another friend into the fold his main dispute with BTC is that, with the largest portion of the community you can find in one place being the mining/hardware group, it looked like the entire community is full of petulant babies who can't accept losses and move on to other more meaningful things. If people spent half the time trying to do something good for BTC that they spent kicking the same dead horse we might actually see more mainstream Bitcoin adoption, but instead everyone has to play the game of "What will the anti-BFL post be this week?".
Or better yet, if you hate BFL that much, let the public record stand. Stop giving them publicity. Talk about other hardware vendors and how they screwed up. It seems like people feel validated to have an Inaba post show up just so they can say "SEE?! SEE?! THERE IS THE DEVIL HIMSELF!".
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