did we take a calculated risk in a doggy company .. NO (to clarify that, Im saying Halong is a good company, otherwise we wouldn't have taken the risk)
did halongmining intentionally mislead us .. NO im sure they faced many engineering challenges that fort to overcome to provide us with a product
do I think halong are passionate about there product .. YES
Just keep drinking that Kool-aid then... Just how/in what way is Halong a 'good company'?
Frankly from day-1 Halong struck me to be far worse than BFL/AMT/Bitmine.ch/BlackArrow/etc ever were.
As for being 'passionate about their product' - then how about them offering help to pool ops who are interested in letting the T1 join their party, say remote access to a miner for them to test their pool changes with. Hell, even an official thread from them vs this one that began as speculation and then devolved into this would show some pride in their company.
A prime example of how a miner manufacture should run is Canaan with their Avalon miners. Hell, even Bitmain has more transparency and yes, even honesty, than Halong has shown us.
Back to class actions: Look up how the ones against AMT and Bitmine.ch went in 2014. Despite both of the companies horrid actions - failing to deliver product at all and failing to refund their pre-order sales investomers - not pretty results.