What do you think how much their mark up is on the chips?
They charged us ~ $10 a chip, while cost to manufacture them is probably around $1 per chip.
They could cover the costs for manufacturing and handling, and even keep some profit (lets say 10%), and refunds the rest. They would not be in minus and group buys would have more than inadequate chips for the upcoming difficulty raises.,
I doubt that he pays too. I mean all the screaming and hate against avalon, threats of sueing and so on... Yifu most probably will think its lost anyway. He wont get back his reputation. While he still will find customers when he have chips in stock.
So he wont have much reason to refund partly. But maybe he surprises us?
I think you guys saw this? At least there is some hope from the criminals.
http://www.avalon-asics.com
chips have arrived via other routes as previously announced, we are shipping them out at the rate of 40-50k on a daily basis at the moment, in addition to the ~150k or so that went out, another 40k was shipped today. There is multiple channel which the chips are arriving from various packaging facility to minimize downtime. Please bare this in mind: while we had backup/multiple packaging companies and various delivery routes, things still will go wrong. There is also testing that must be done, then they can split, packed and sent to the EZP coupled with their CN-22 and be on their way. We will provide more update as they come. In addition, the trade-in and refunds are being processed.
If this is true, many folks on this forum should start receiving chips in the next week or two.