I got my order of 5 gridseeds without issue, but i have to say I'm more then pissed off about paying 130 each two weeks ago for something that is now 85 bucks, Zoomhash knew damn well what was coming and tried to squeeze out every last dime before the price drop. I am not happy at all. Paid 800 bucks for it .
On a side note, the shipping was great and quick to Canada, no imports duties either (maybe just luck)
If we know what was coming we wouldnt have 800 of these gridseeds that we are selling at a loss
that's odd, considering the blade had a "flash sale" on zoomhash a week before the new models came out. but you didn't know about that right?.
Hey don't get me me wrong, you were very helpful and the shipping was good, the devices arrived nicely packed and with all accessories, but to see the price drop by 40 bucks each less then two weeks after I bought 5 of them, which is 200 bucks total is maddening. For 800 bucks I got 1.8 MH and now for 200 bucks I can get 1.2 from the "Wolf"
Not happy at all. I will still recommend people to your site but I feel you need to know how pissed off I am.
Just so you know, part of this problem is that Gridseed is conducting price drops without notice to resellers, official and unofficial, in an arbitrary and very confusing way.
The current theory is that GS knew that the ZM, GAW, and HASHRA branded miners were closer to delivery and rather than perform a gradual phase down on prices they dropped it like a brick to shuffle hardware quickly. Since there is some heated competition between resellers, the gouge began and prices dropped market-wide very suddenly and very unexpectedly. GAW is publicly pasting their emails to GS and apparently has a retribution plan in the works, so ideally if GS has any business sense they will extend any deal given to GAW to every other reseller since they forced the reseller model for sales/distribution. With how the GS reseller program works, you basically have to pre-purchase or do a group-buy model of collecting funds first then ordering when funding level is met. Obviously, in a competitive market everyone needs to have stock in-hand, so while resellers were waiting for their 'round 10 blades' (totally theoretical numbers, say $1300 blades to arrive that were headed out the door at $1500 to consumers) to show up the price dropped to 'round 11 blades' (theory again, $800 going out the door at ~$950). So they are sitting on hardware that cost them above the new MSRP, so they either offset the loss with more sales or try to move the hardware at a price at least fair to what they paid (plus overhead for shipping, employees, workspace). This is a shitty market for everyone at times, but right now to stay competitive the resellers have entered a point where they either get GS to relent with free hardware or compensation in some form, sell at a loss, or stand their ground on pricing, at which point it almost makes more sense to put it on the network and self-mine to return the investment a little then selling it as used.
That's how I see it anyway. GS effectively burned everyone with the market style they created, so hopefully they pull a good guy and give a little something back. Otherwise they will basically die when the branded hardware comes out.