I can see you're trying to sell spondoolies with your comments while all their stocks are sold out. Such claims from you need to be confirmed. Seems to me you haven't ordered anything from HC at all.
I agree that he might as well remove that from his sig, but if he's still getting something out of the referral link (all the ones on products are gone), more power to him. Beats obnoxious signature campaign ones
The claim that it is a rebadged Scrypt miner is easily supported. I'm sure it's been mentioned several times in this thread already, but just googling around:
Product | Alcheminer Alchemist | Mining Asics Technologies Excalibur | HashCoins Ares256 |
outside | | | |
board | | | |
chip | | | |
It is perhaps the most literal form of 'rebadged', although without the 're' part - they stuck a badge
on top of where the Alcheminer logo would be. Perhaps if you're bored you can prise the badge off of yours and see what's underneath. At least MAT printed their panels and customized the chip marking. MAT went out of business, but I doubt the customization can be blamed for that
The claim that the Uranus is currently non-existent is also easily supported, they say as much themselves:
Product under development. Uranus is now available for pre-order with an estimated delivery date Q1 2015.
Q1 ends in a week, so they still have time. You claimed earlier that it's already been made - but as that's hearsay and HashCoins can't be bothered to update their website, the non-existent label is on them. Takes them a few minutes to update that. Of course then people will start wanting further proof.
None of the above is in any way related to whether you can trust that if you send them
BTC in a pre-order for a product with little to no information available, that they will deliver on time and on-spec.
Given how many people get burned by pre-orders and then complain left right and center about it, the past posts' advice to just not enter into pre-orders is solid - their potential lack of prior patronage is not at issue, as the Bitcoin hardware landscape changes all the time with companies' reputation in flux.
Of course if it's money the person can stand to lose, and they're willing to wager on past performance (good and bad), it's their choice.