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Topic: Is this real? (Read 2010 times)

donator
Activity: 1617
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June 01, 2013, 12:01:04 AM
#14
They are real, but I wouldn't buy anything from them.

A) They were overpriced to begin with.
B) Tom moved his MMQ business and started "developing" ASICs, and was selling a 72GH/s bASIC. The project flopped, Tom went off the deep end, and all of his customers basically got screwed.
C) ASICs from ASICMiner, Avalon, and even BFL are starting to pour in, making this useless.

What exactly happened? How'd he screw everyone over? Just curious
He took a bunch of pre-orders for his bASIC product line and tied up people's money for 5-6 months or more.

I don't think everyone was equally screwed over though. Most of the people who paid with credit cards were quickly refunded. I had several CC orders and every penny of every one of them was refunded. For those people who paid in BTC it was a different story. The refunds were a lot slower, and to make things worse because the USD value of BTC had gone up they got a lot less BTC back. It is also not clear to me whether everyone got paid back fully.
hero member
Activity: 672
Merit: 500
May 31, 2013, 03:07:56 PM
#13
They are real, but I wouldn't buy anything from them.

A) They were overpriced to begin with.
B) Tom moved his MMQ business and started "developing" ASICs, and was selling a 72GH/s bASIC. The project flopped, Tom went off the deep end, and all of his customers basically got screwed.
C) ASICs from ASICMiner, Avalon, and even BFL are starting to pour in, making this useless.

What exactly happened? How'd he screw everyone over? Just curious
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
May 31, 2013, 05:00:08 AM
#12
It is tom selling his crap.

Sad state of affairs considering I just picked up >2GH for $300USD........


What did you get that does that, for that?

& where in the hell can I get about 10, please?
legendary
Activity: 952
Merit: 1000
May 31, 2013, 04:42:03 AM
#11
... I just picked up >2GH for $300USD........
Pics or it didn't happen! Wink
It's prolly like 6x 5830s for $50/each or something like that.
newbie
Activity: 58
Merit: 0
May 31, 2013, 02:51:20 AM
#10
... I just picked up >2GH for $300USD........

Pics or it didn't happen! Wink
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freedomainradio.com
May 31, 2013, 01:56:32 AM
#9
Yeah.
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
May 30, 2013, 10:33:29 PM
#8
It looks way over priced!
I got two used 7970 for about $315 including shipping, per unit. I get 0.746GH/s on about 290W.
Way less bucks!
legendary
Activity: 952
Merit: 1000
May 30, 2013, 08:48:14 AM
#7
They are real, but I wouldn't buy anything from them.

A) They were overpriced to begin with.
B) Tom moved his MMQ business and started "developing" ASICs, and was selling a 72GH/s bASIC. The project flopped, Tom went off the deep end, and all of his customers basically got screwed.
C) ASICs from ASICMiner, Avalon, and even BFL are starting to pour in, making this useless.
sr. member
Activity: 399
Merit: 250
May 30, 2013, 08:33:35 AM
#6
It is tom selling his crap.

Sad state of affairs considering I just picked up >2GH for $300USD........
DrG
legendary
Activity: 2086
Merit: 1035
May 30, 2013, 06:58:41 AM
#5
the picture is the same as this item on ebay.....

http://r.ebay.com/jeZPV2


Did you even bother to look at the link I posted.  It has well established members on this forum talking about methods of connecting power to these Modminers (hint - people have been mining with them already for quite some time).  This device was not made yesterday - it's been out for a while.

Whoever put up the eBay auction simply linked the modminer homepage pic for his/her auction.

Caveat emptor?  More like failure to read....
full member
Activity: 138
Merit: 100
May 30, 2013, 06:29:26 AM
#4
caveat emptor
full member
Activity: 138
Merit: 100
May 30, 2013, 06:20:51 AM
#3
the picture is the same as this item on ebay.....

http://r.ebay.com/jeZPV2
DrG
legendary
Activity: 2086
Merit: 1035
May 30, 2013, 06:00:08 AM
#2
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