This is what sam told me
I asked
if we are say, the 10th person to order Mars, does that reserve the 10th spot in order for Jupiter?
Sam answered:
If the 10th Mars to leave the building is yours that will mean the 10th Jupiter to leave the building will also be yours (assuming you upgrade within 30 days)
Buying a Mars = Gets you a position in Jupiter
Not buying a mars = you wait until Mars orders get their Jupiter's
Seems to me this is by
far the most fair way to do it.
That smells like BS to me.
What if I don't want a Mars? I have to wait behind 1000 people who bought one. Lets face it you would only buy one to get the jump on an asic. If you wanted an FPGA there are a few places you can get one and be running next week.
So we have to take a punt on a mars and hope that eventually, fingers crossed we get a Jupiter. That's bollocks. Not only that, they seem pretty vague on the discount. It says
UP TO $2000
not $2000 so how many mars units do I have to buy to get the full $2k discount?
I think we're being led around by the nose here. They never said anything to me about buying a Mars in order to get in the asic queue. When I emailed them yesterday they said this:
"We have your registrations and if the orders are paid for when we open up for payment we don’t see why you can’t be included in the first set of boxes to ship"Now you're telling me I have to buy an FPGA, before I get in on the first batch. Really? I can get one on ebay thanks. Good luck to anyone buying one of these things.
I may have been born at night but it wasn't last night.
These aren't mutually exclusive, the first
500 units are the first shipment.
If you're not willing to put money up front, why the fuck should you go infront of people who
are?