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Topic: Is anyone actually going to buy the 600 GH/s BFL unit after their customer serv? - page 5. (Read 15257 times)

full member
Activity: 217
Merit: 100
I know of 3 people local that have received equipment. 2x500 ghash, 3x50ghash and 1 jally.

Yeah after waiting a year and a half for them to do r&d advertising etc with their money? That sounds legit. If I ever ran one of my businesses that way, I'd probably commit suicide from guilt. Then again, I have a conscience.
full member
Activity: 217
Merit: 100
Well I am happy that we are going to be providing a service soon to bitcoiners and already to have done a group buy with 9 systems for KnCminers jupiter. Hope they don't let us down like BFL did. I will NEVER buy from them. Wasted one year and 80K on these guys.
sr. member
Activity: 336
Merit: 250


I have 2 Jalepenos but canceled orders on 5 more jalapenos and 3 singles. Buy form BFL? I would like to say never again, but every time I say that, sometime in my life I have to go back on it. I like their gear, but the antics of the "Face of the company" are a complete turn off.

 If that was the face of your company, could you stay in business?

My business is extremely competitive and if my representatives acted like that, none of us would have jobs.

edit: Took quote out. Did not intend to quote.
hero member
Activity: 728
Merit: 500
I know of 3 people local that have received equipment. 2x500 ghash, 3x50ghash and 1 jally.
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1067
Christian Antkow
I would hope sanity prevails this time around, people have grown wiser to BFL's antics, and will not be supporting them with their latest offering.
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1000
One of the only 2 people that got a miner, GigaVPS. Haha... funny stuff.

Quite a few people have received theirs, but I'm sure those that have only comprise a small percentage of the total order book.  I'm glad you're doing your research instead of being blinded by greed like so many of those who went the BFL route.

Funny how you don't hear much from gigaVPS these days.  He used to be a a flagship member around here.
full member
Activity: 217
Merit: 100
"As a fairly early Bitcoin adopter and institutional miner, the choice for mining hardware comes down to innovation. Who is going to have the experience and best technology going forward to keep me ahead of the curve? The fact that BFL has a proven chip design, combined with their innovations in form factor and node size means that they will be hard to beat moving forward."
James Gibson - GigaVPS


One of the only 2 people that got a miner, GigaVPS. Haha... funny stuff.

full member
Activity: 217
Merit: 100
Read this website for more details: http://www.butterflylabs.com/monarch/

Sadly, they are getting away with getting basically a loan that increased in value because of people's naiveity. The more I read into this, the more upset I am getting....
full member
Activity: 217
Merit: 100
I just read this on their website "Butterfly Labs has shipped more ASIC products than all competitors combined"

ROFL. Okay, now I'm just getting upset. How can they blatantly lie like that when AsicMiner, Avalon, etc... have shipped TONS more than BFL. This is getting ridiculous now.
full member
Activity: 217
Merit: 100
How many people have actually received their BFL miners? Other than the 2 500 GH/s systems I heard of?
sr. member
Activity: 472
Merit: 250
Yes those who already have an unfulfilled BFL preorder can upgrade to Monarch.  That is their target market.  And at this point this may be the only hope for users with pending BFL orders, as you can get an ASICMiner blade delivered next week for the price of a brand new single order placed today that would ship by Christmas ... hopefully?  LOL
legendary
Activity: 2026
Merit: 1034
Fill Your Barrel with Bitcoins!
Yes it really is a shame how they conducted themselves as a business and profited on the hopes and dreams of many people left in the dirt.
full member
Activity: 217
Merit: 100
Is anyone actually going to buy the 600 GH/s BFL unit after their customer service? The reason I ask this is because not only did their employees call their customers who waited a year "stupid" etc. but they used customer money to fund research and development along with marketing. I know I'll probably get flamed by Josh for this but if this wasn't the case, then the people who paid in BTC, why were their refunds offered in USD? So basically profit was made twice, once on sales, and second on BTC increase while people waited a year. I just wanted to know exactly how they plan on selling to people on bitcointalk.org as I have seen their advertisement on this site after their treatment of the people who allowed them to exist in the first place. By making their empty promises, the company profited in the millions because of peoples' wanting of a 1.5 TH/s miner, and the other miners which people thought would make them rich, but in actuality just made BFL rich. Like all my other posts, please keep the discussion positive and reasonable. BFL, realize this isn't a flame to you, but more of a wake up call. I have run numerous successful businesses and the most important thing in my mind is customer service. Hence, with my group buy, though I purchased systems already, along with cooling, humidity control and security structure. I still refunded peoples' money up until early August. With that, let's start some discussion!
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