Well I wasn't looking for thousands of dollars of equipment. The initial proposition was more meant for people to take stake based on BTC input, we would combine the BTC to buy GridSeed miners (or something of the like). The miners would then be used to mine for the summer, paying out as agreed upon per the proportionate shares, at a higher profitability due to the free power consumption. At the end, the miners would be sold or claimed via shares.
It seemed like a simple proposition, but apparently there's a disgusting lot of people on these forums that ruin opportunities for solid trading-types of relationships. Never have I ever run into such problems on any trade forum that I have used before. Crypto-problems.