Yes, you are the one guy...and there is always THAT guy.
Of course they deliver a solid product, they mined with it for 2 months before they sent it to you. Im glad you ordered those monarchs, maybe you will now feel what everyone has experienced. They will be worthless by the time they arrive just like everything else they put out. When KNC delivered their first round of jupiters they were hashing above what they had promised by 30-40 percent. People sold jupiters for 25k after mining with them for 2 months, and thats on a 6k dollar purchase price. BFL crap never even makes it to the actual buyer because the preorder is sold on ebay after they figure out it will be worthless by the time it comes. That practice pushes more people away from bitcoin in general and takes advantage of noobs. I did it myself, and BFL put me in that situation. BFL is one of the last black eyes of bitcoin and I would love to see that company burn to the ground. KNC is the best mining company in the business imho...oh yeah and BFL sucks
Yes, I am just one guy, but I'm sharing my personal experiences, where you're sharing very vague and casual partial/mis-truths.
You have no proof they mined with the BTC equipment for any period of time before it was shipped to customers. The only info we have on that suspected action is A) They promised no pre-mining with customer hardware, B) All customer hardware was squeaky clean when people were getting them, including mine, and C) it took ~2 weeks to burn in the chips to where they would setting on a consistent hashrate every time you powered them on. That doesn't sound like a piece of hardware that had been mining for 2 months.
So I have multiple TH/s coming in April (hopefully, I will admit that the shipping date is unknown), but how is that any different than any of the 2TH units that people are pre-ordering?
IMO, BFL shot themselves in the foot when they increased their hashrate of the Singles from 40GH/s to 60GH/s (50% increase, before they had any chips to go by). Remember when they increased the hashrate to compete with the bASIC, which turned out to be an incompetent failure? They had to up the hashrate to stay relevant, but in doing so they had to redesign the board. I'm not expecting anything like that this time.
You have info on how many pre-orders were sold on ebay? It's prolly not the thousands of actual orders they sold/delivered. I know I didn't sell any of my pre-orders on ebay.
And please keep in mind: I'm not bashing KNC. They shipped a lovely product. I just don't think they poop glittery gold like you seem to think. I also don't think BFL (or Josh) is the spawn of Satan, like you seem to think. I like to take a more realistic, balanced approach, and weigh their pros/cons (of which there are some on both sides).
