Payments been made, and items have already be proven to exist by disenchanted former members of Bitsyncom.
Someone have a thread reference for this, I seem to have missed it.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2886393Others have mentioned a rumour of someone paying $14m for the above and the promise to delay everyone else's shipments to pre-mine being the reason for the Bitsyncom split, but I'm not sure where that's from, but it's mentioned somewhere in that WTF Avalon thread.
Yeah, pretty sure that was me casting aspersions, lol.
In any case those chips were proven as you can see to exist a month ago and posted by a disenchanted former member of Bitsyncom's design team, Gridchip.
Yeah this is undoubtedly where the pictures I saw came from, thanks for the link, I'll go check it out in a sec.
Furthermore Terrahsh and Burnin' already have 'customers' demanding full refunds as they don't believe they will see ROI, which is not their fault, and what's worse they've already designed, and manufactured working products and stocked inventory for chips that appear to have been withheld to a point in which they will no longer be of any value if they are not delivered ASAP.
Yeah :\ clusterfuck for all involved.
I really don't know why people went so crazy for Avalon chips in the first place, but I guess people were really optimistic. 2 million Avalon chips? Crazytalk.