Topic: Latest Avalon6 group buy thread. 600 usd Ends Monday 28th (Read 6491 times)

PM sent.

is that offer still valid?

Good luck with it.

Kano pool has been smoking hot lately!

Thanks to Phil and Holy Scott. Got the A6 in today and it is hashing away! Here's hoping I can get on the Acclaim board soon at Kano's pool!

No worries  I am sure one day you will be selling some gear I need  and give me a good deal.


I will leave this open more as support and or questions on the older group buys.

Sold 1x Avalon 6 unit tonight, so the free kit that philipma1957 was so kind to offer is taken. I have 3x Avalon 6 units left in New York that are still available.

Again, philipma1957, thank you very much! I did not know about his offer till I had the sale and seen the messages.

I offered a free kit to run the avalon 6 to the first person to buy 1 avalon 6 from  holy scott

I was just pm's that  utbeauchamp on Bitcoin Forum.

purchased 1 avalon 6 from you  please confirm so I can send him the kit.

I had 1 extra kit to give away.    and this is it.

They did nothing for me about the s-7 batch 1.  My loss was about 150$ 

The problem is math. 

3500gh vs 4700gh

612 usd   with shipping  vs   500 usd with coupons and shipping

my failure rate on s-7 is 1 of 19 and the fail was low hashing  4400 gh vs 4800 gh

my fail rate on avalons is 1 in 11  and it was a full board    1650 gh vs 3300 gh   

  I did get service for it  but it was my error so I paid for that.

To bring all those factors it does favor the discounted s-7.

I am not buying it , but I am not buying the avalon 6  in general I am mostly just annoyed at the gear choices I have.

Well it is Easter I should stay off the site and hang with the family.

 

I now refuse to buy Bitmain S7, on principle. They used to be good, solid manufacturer. Not any more. Since S5, they've been producing sub-par miners, I'd classify them as just above junk. They have no Quality Assurance, don't believe the QA stickers on their S5 and S7 miners. Their chips vary as much as 20-25% below their advertized hashrate. They provide almost zero After Sale Service. What customer service? They laugh at your face when you run into trouble with your S5/S7 miners.

Bitmain got too big and now their head is in the cloud. Please support their competitors like Avalon; Do not point your miners to Antpool, there are many legitimate pools like kano, why do you continue to support centralizing Chinese Antpool with their bad practices like mining on empty blocks?

Wow, I am really bummed by this development. Let us know if another group buy does eventually happen.

I'm with you on that. I was all set to join in this group buy, but the new price with coupon for the s7 is just too hard to pass up.

It also made me suspicious that they put batch 15 on their website before batch 14 was even due to ship out.

I will cross promo Holyscott's sales  in the following manner  I have 8 avalon 6's

I have 5 working kits so the first one to buy 1  from him  I will send a kit  free. I have 1 extra four pin wire  so you could buy 2 from him and I would hook you up.

This offer to all 50 usa states.  I will toss the kit into a box and put it in a flat rate envelope . Free postage.

I can only do this for the first one to buy from Holyscott.

I would ask for proof you did buy it.  this was taken



The game has become very hard for a 5k guy.

you have 5k to spend and 5 kwatts to burn in power.  Bitmaintech pretty much dumps on you if the gear breaks down. I purchased 19 s-7's starting with batch 1  and they basically said fuck you phil about my dud batch 1.   Worse then that they just never answered me except for 1 time and it was a simple don't ask me ask so and so.  I sent emails and posted about it more then 1 dozen times and never got another response.
    So I am trying to push Avalon's as much as I can.  So bitmaintech just kills off the price with a huge drop.
Kind of depressing.

Any how if you do buy from holyscott pm me if you need the kit.
first usa buy gets 1 kit  for free 0 nothing.

@ holy scott please let me know if you sell one to some one in the usa so I know whom to send it to.

I lowered pricing on Avalon 6 units on my website to $625 which is $593 after coupon code. Again I am not selling the controller kits, as I do not have extras available. I have 5x units in NY. and can include the controller kit if someone wants to take all 5x Av6 units.

ya. which now causes me to think they are going to release something soon. get one last push in before they announce the new stock.

holy scott does have some  in New York   not sure how many kits he has.

but you could pm him and ask.  for me I just can not see doing this group buy as much as I prefer avalon 6 over bitmaintech.

the market is going to be flooded with cheap s-7's which means bitmaintech will be adding something else to their farms.

and there is the problem that I think most of us are facing. we don't really want to support bitmain but they make it hard to buy anything else as they price the competition out of the market.

My question is why the sudden generosity from bitmain. They have always been stingy in the past with discounts unless you buy in the pallet load. are the ones their are currently selling from their farms and they are trying to use these coupons to move them faster?

I hate myself for it but I know ill get another s7 as that price cant be beat but Ill still look around for an single Avalon. I know holy has some.

I also received a message that there will be $115 coupons distributed on 4/1/16 if you bought S7's during a certain period or to be used instead of S5 redemption on Hashnest. This would make the gap even bigger.

Gonna be a struggle for me to choose, because on one hand I really dislike Bitmain, but that price is hard to beat.

The s-7 clocked down from 4700 rpm to 3500 rpm allows fans to be set pretty low

2800 rpm.

with a flex duct like this one

http://www.lowes.com/pd_481274-85334-MEA-1225-6___?productId=50401806&pl=1&Ntt=flex+duct

you can lower the noise a lot and direct the hot air out of the house

so 482 after coupon and 54 shipping is 536 the duct is 48  you are at 584

the avalon 6 is 600 + 12 = 612 at best

Frankly I no longer like bitmaintech since they never made up for my batch 1 dog machine  which runs 5 to 10% under hash.

but I have a lot of trouble selling the avalon 6 at a big  premium over the s-7.

612 -625 vs  536 after shipping and no duct

I think anyone that has shown interest on the thread can just contact me for a free s-7 coupon and I will put the group buy on hold.

Phillip,

If you can make something happen please let me know either way.
I'd rather have an Avalon, but I can check for coupons as well

Thanks for trying Big Phil, but I know you have several different pies

Sloopy

Can the S7 really be as quiet as the A6 with a slight underclock to 3800ghs?

Those industrial fans seem impossible to silence.

yeah I and tired tonight  going to stop typing before I write something dumb.

the game can wear me out. sometimes.

check with ken/yan see if they can match. who knows they might match you have certainly helped sell plenty of miners for them that may not have ever been bought.

let me see promised times for bitmain.

5 days from payment


ANTMINER S7 BATCH 15 - Shipped out within 5 days BUY
ANTMINER S7 BATCH 15 - Shipped out within 5 days

AntMiner S7 BATCH 15 with 4.73th/s is available to order. Shipping out within 5 working days after full payment.

ahh I have been really busy with holidays and I have a lot to still do.

I can not see the sense in the avalon 6  when the s-7 is about 1.25 btc and the avalon 6 is about 1.45 btc.

I think holy scott was selling some avalon 6's at a one count.


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14314794


his deal is not quite as good  but  I can't see doing this group buy avalon 6 is  612 to 640 vs

500 with the s-7.

I need to sleep on this anyone looking to post ideas please do.

wow.. strategic timing I must say on their part.

let us know what the plan is or if the Avalon group buy turns into an s7 group buy.

Maybe run it by ken/yan see if they can in anyway match even if its only for this group buy. would rather give them my btc then those other people.

plus avalons seem to be block busters for kano. lol


what is the lead time on the current available units from bitmain? weeks? or same day like Avalon?

okay I like these units  but just now I have been sent 36 100 dollar bitmain tech coupons for s-7's

I can get 4 s-7s shipped to my house in NJ for 2000 usd.

this gives me a problem   the s-7 underclocked to 3800 gh  is pretty much as good as the avalon 6  in terms of noise levels

which if I get a good one maxes near

3800 gh.  So 500 for an s-7 or 600 for an avalon 6

I am thinking I may be forced to not do this group buy.
I am thinking that buying this s-7 and downclock to 3800 is better
then getting the avalon 6's

I am not sure what to do.

I also have 36 coupons for s-7's   

And bitmain sends me 100.00 coupon...I guess I will still hold tight till next round of hardware.

There are a couple sites you could buy btc from. Or if you have someone at home have them install teamviewer on the machine and install it on your machine/phone with you. Easy way to remote in quickly and then uninstall when done.

Might be good to have incase you want to gave the miners on different pools.  Like one on solo ck the other on kano.

Wow, I did not realize this. I already have a Pi with one A6 running, so I really only need the A6, four pin wire, usb/four pin adapter.
Any discount for not needing the Pi, wall wart, and usb cables? If not no problem, I can always find a use for another Pi.

I want to buy one but I am kind of screwed being that I am stuck out of town for my job and do not have access to my coins at the moment. I am currently in Indiana so I can't drop off cash. Any ideas how to get coins quickly?

I try to hold the coins as little as possible.
So I will say please send at btc addy xxx around 9 pm Sunday to about 3 pm Monday est

Then send all coins in 1 send to block_c btc addy.

It lowers the risk of a large btc price shift.

if you go to my profile  you will see this address.


https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/philipma1957-64507


Avalon6 Group Buy - 1BHKKrAh5oTacQnmjfACXjE9cGyFRR8rVD


So you want one unit and you are in Los Angles   that is going to be 600 + 12  I would send a pm to you   and say   612 usd is

1.45440010   please send that to   the group buy address    make sure to   use all numbers as the 0010 on the end  helps me track your payment

you would send that amount to the addy above make sure to go to my profile above  and realize it is my profile  and matches the address.

you sent the btc.  tell me the transaction id.     i make sure it is for the exact amount 1.45440010    every one else pays in say 10 units


come to 14.65000114 btc.


   I do a full send of the coin to block_c
 I send block_c all shipping info.

 Lets say 5 go to me for east coast shipping and 5 are drop shipped by block_c for west coast shipping and central usa shipping.

This makes it easy for yan from block_c to do his job and people get to do small 1 or 2 unit orders.  or 3 or 4 or 5 or more.

I used to test every unit at first but then I realized I should just test   over seas ones since usa sales can get replacement gear pretty easy.

But if they are going to Montreal, Finland or U.K.  knowing I sent a working unit is helpful.

right now I did about 50 units in 3 sales all the units were good but a wire or 2 was bad.  the four pin ones have a 4 % fail rate so far

2 bad and 50 good

so this being my first group buy using btc. how does the payment part work? come Monday you say pay me X btc and then we send that? used to paying in $ so sending/paying money early didn't matter.

yeah these miners can be touchy

I will sit out this round but I'd like to get at least 1 more Avalon 6, probably next round if Philip will do another group buy.

By the way, I figured out why my a6 was having problems, it was my old corsair rm1000 PSU, as soon as I replaced it with two server psu's, it stabilized and it's hashing at 3950 ghs. So, make sure you have a good power supply at least 1200 Watts, set your A6 at freq 500 and fan minimum 40, as suggested by philipma and others. Do not exceed voltage over 12.3, or your a6 will burn up. I had one of my Bitmain S7 go up in flames, it couldn't handle 12.8 volts, so it's normal for these miners to burn up if you overvolt it.

the stock fan is louder  they both move a lot of air well.

these come with

1 rasp pi  with programmed  sdcard
1 wall wart
2 usb cords
1 four pin wire
1 small adapter between usb and four pin wire

I will not include a sanyo ace fan  as I only have 3 left.

link for 1 case of them
http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Denki-SAN-Ace-120mm/dp/B00YOC80IO?

and link for 1 of them


http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Denki-SAN-Ace-120mm/dp/B00QWB1X3O/ref=sr_1_1?

There a difference between the fans other than noise?


Probably should have asked earlier but this buy includes all the stuff from the last group buy correct? pi/cables..etc

Now this group buy I am limited on the sanyo ace fans.  I have 3 left. let me see if amazon has them at a 1 case price like last time.



http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Denki-SAN-Ace-120mm/dp/B00YOC80IO?

they went from 98 to 138 for 20



or 12.95 for 1

http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Denki-SAN-Ace-120mm/dp/B00QWB1X3O/ref=sr_1_1?

 15 usd so 615.

that is center of USA  so block_c drop ships it to him.

if sidehack has room it should work.

you need to contact sidehack

as for other hosting sites ask jonnybravo0311 we  sent 2 units to Oregon for hosting .

what would the cost be to ship one unit to Sidehack for hosting?
Or are there other reliable hosting alternatives?

I'm in for 1 as well. Thanks

I'll have to sit on this for the weekend.  I'll let you know come Monday Phil!

Okay list so far.

Zachm             1 unit
Legacy2005     1 unit
utbeauchamp   2 units
jmumich          1 or 2 units
mc162BCT       1 unit    once it comes we can figure a place to meet



elokk      I could take cash  if you are near me in NJ and drop cash off to me.   1 unit as My excess coins can only handle 1 unit.

   

I will collect coins on monday all day and then send out the coins to block_c late  like 11pm EST  

to:

 in2tactics  I am checking on shipping to Hiawaii



We are at 6 or 7   and with elokk and in2tactics      we are at 8 - 10 units.

Say a hard 6 to a soft 10  on order.

Put me down for 1 

Count me in for 1 - possibly 2, I'll let you know before Monday. Thanks for doing this again!

Okay

Legacy2005     1 unit
utbeauchamp   2 units
mc162BCT       1 unit    once it comes we can figure a place to meet


elokk      I could take cash  if you are near me in NJ and drop cash off to me.   1 unit as My excess coins can only handle 1 unit.

   

I will collect coins on monday all day and then send out the coins to block_c late  like 11pm EST  

to:

 in2tactics  I am checking on shipping to Hiawaii

Put me down for 2. Thanks Phil!

So that's me out....

Buying BTC is proving to be a real hassle with all the verifications so until I can mine enough, I'll stick to my old miners...

Yes btc only.

what type of payments are accepted? btc only right?

YES!!

I've been putting off buying more S7s for 2 weeks in hopes that this may materialize as I much rather these machines to the torture whine of the S7 fans that I can hear through multiple floors of my home.

Please put me down for 1

Whenever you're ready pm me with the send address and I'll be sure to send asap

PS.  I was hoping to avoid shipping and come pick up the machine directly as you're within driving distance from me if that's no good I can do whatever you prefer just let me know ;-)

In for 1.

shipped to ohio

WE SHUT THIS DOWN DUE TO PRICING ON THE S-7

I have a few in stock used in my home.  send Pm's






Got a number from kilo17

it is late I am tired but

price will be 600 and just a bit more to ship.

just post  if you want one or two or more and I will organize  this in the morning.

was hoping for 575 but with flat diff   600 is not terrible.