Topic: DRILLBIT SYSTEM Miners - Avalon range available - Now $104.99! - page 139. (Read 273816 times)

Alright. I'm about to send some of my bitcoins to my wallet then to you in a few. Right now I'm paying for one as that is all I have right now but I will pay for the second as soon as i can

And onto the website debate.

I know what you mean about shiny websites feeling untrustworthy. Especially in bitcoin land. There have been so many vaporware companies pop up with shiny websites announcing billion gigahash miners available for preorder now. Whenever i see one of these sites, i instantly think "yeah right, what a load of shit". I have written to many of them using their pretty user support forms and almost always got nothing back.

What we are doing here is not really a commercial enterprise where we want to lure people in and take their money using our shiny website. That website i set up was never really intended to be a "website" per se, but rather a place where people can go and make their orders for the group buy.

Now all that said, i have been intending on making that page slightly more attractive, and putting up some more information on their for people who stumble onto it without coming via the forum.

MRKLYE has offered to contribute some time to building the site up. To be honest it is a welcome offer as it takes one thing off my plate. I'm going to get him to have a run at it and see what he comes up with. Don't worry, we're not going to get another BFL or KNC esque site. I'll make sure it still stays true to the DIY nature of this whole thing, whilst being a bit nicer to use, clearer and more informational (if that is even a word).

Thanks MRKYLE for the offer.

 

I am in for a board via Paypal... Looking forward to seeing how this all plays out.

I have orders in with BFL, Mr Teal, buzzdave and now here. I wonder who delivers first?

Use Gox for exchange rate. Most people seem to still use them as the benchmark (correct me if i'm wrong)... but yes, so far everything has been done following the Gox rate.

Pleased to announce that the chips have been ordered. 

We have made a deposit with Megabigpower to secure an October reel of chips, so this is going ahead regardless. Basically now it is a matter of whether we fill the chip order with orders from the community or buy whats left out ourselves once we get to October. Honestly though i highly doubt it will get to that. As others have mentioned, the orders are moving quite quickly, the whole thing seems to be generally picking up steam. At this point i'm confident people will snap up the remaining chips.

Barntech

Yes, trust m,e i understand the frustration of bad communication in this crazy world. I'll always be here to answer your questions. 

And yes i hope Bitfury delivers. It all feels pretty solid, but you never know. Gonna make sure we're all ready to go when they do though.

Yes, basically, its a balance of fairness and efficiency. If you order one now and one later, it would be silly to send them in two separate packages, so they will be packaged together. I guess the main thing is for everyone to be reasonable about this with their ordering. I don't want a situation where people are taking advantage by placing a small early order then hoping to add lots to it later on and maintain an early spot in the queue. I guess if this happens, ie 1 now, 20 later, then the 1 will probably be bundled with the 20 rather than the other way around, or perhaps i will offer the option of separate packages in the interest of maintaining the queue. If you place multiple orders, i will contact you and we can work out together how they will be bundled

But really all this won't make too much difference to anything. The situation i am anticipating is that we will get all the boards back, sit around for a few solid days packaging them all up and send them out. Biggest delay between first and last package going out will be one maybe two weeks at the most (at a guess).

   WOW    Communication....what a concept    Sounds great Barntech & thanks for taking the time to respond 

I'll be watching,october is far away,sooo many things coming & I'm hoping I don't make a bad decision a 3rd time.

This looks like the best "bang for the buck" though ATM,but things can change soo fast in ASICland.

BFL order delayed for a over year(30GH),but got it    Avalon delayed............. Who knows when I'll get that 30GH................

Best of Luck & hope Bitfury comes thru !!   

I think all the boards will ship fairly quickly. We will be doing all of them together in one manufacture run, so they will all be ready at once. From there its just postage. We will post them in the order that the orders were placed. If you only ordered a few boards then they will all ship together. In the interest of fairness though, if you say ordered one board at the beginning and 30 at the end, we will have to stay true to the queue and send the 30 in their appropriate position. Basically, it will be done in the most fair and efficient way we can manage. 

We will do all that we can to keep the shipping costs down. The prices will be charged in weight ranges, so i'm guessing 1-4 ish boards would probably cost the same shipping, then a higher price for 5-10 etc (total random numbers btw, just to give you an idea). I will get onto all those details soon.

In terms of ordering, basically, if you are wanting us to assemble a board for you, then you will need to either order a fully assembled board now, or order chips now and assembly down the track. That option is there to allow people to get their order in for chips, then get their money together for assembly. However if you have the money now, and know what you want, it will be easier and simpler to just order fully assembled boards to start with.

We are configuring the miners to run with cgminer.

I think that's all your questions covered. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know.

Cheers

The shinier the website, the more likely you're being fucked.

I have to say I disagree. I figure a nice website makes the groupbuy purchaser feel more comfortable.
I'm not saying these guys make a website like BFL and take in a massive amount of preorders.
Just a nice site with some pictures and updates of where they are at and projected speeds / costs.
Would make it easier for people to see what's up rather then sifting through the forum.

Kyle.T

+1

Well I'm just sending btc not exchanging.  The first post mentioned to calculate based on the exchange rate but yet didn't specify WHICH exchange to use to calculate .-.

Forget about getting money in or out of Gox in a hurry.

I might as well buy one of the chips now while I still have the btc and while there are still chips lol..  Anyone know which exchange to go by? BTC-E is ~$96, Bitstamp is ~$98, and MtGox is ~$109   =/

The OP is a straight shooter and the board design is done. I'm willing to bet it will be filled in 10 days or less.

Compared to what?

You base that continued daily steady purchase rate based on what?

So we will be to zero in 5 days you think?

Too much $$$$$  Now..