OMG, STFU... lol
You whine like a bunch of little female dogs in heat...
If you paid, you are getting a miner (whenever that is), before anyone-else who has not even paid yet. You knew the risk when you made your "PRE-ORDER", and for transparency (Which is not even a legal requirement), you were told "Expected delivery dates", and "Have been informed of delays".
What the delays are, is irrelevant. Do you want a daily play-by-play of production? Did Microsoft or Sony or any video-game company ever do that? No. They just announced that shipping would be delayed, and offered another "Estimated shipping date".
What things could cause delays after getting the chips...
- PCB redesigns
- Component-replacement of failed parts
- Software issues
- Being overworked
- Stalled or Frozen funds (Due to people demanding refunds and trying to stop-payment.)
- Certification process approval for UL/CE or other things
- ISO quality assurance checking, to ensure parts are up to their own ISO standards that they claim
- Burn-in cycle, to ensure one bad component does not cause whole-device failure (Not all components are created equally)
- Variance testing, to ensure end-results are producing in-spec (Something that CPU producers no longer do.)
- Packaging and shipping delays (Sure they will pick-up one or two packages, but when you tell them you have 1000, they have to schedule a truck that is available to pick-up. Then, if 1000 a day/week, they need to schedule a whole schedule.)
Then, to top that off... There is losses to deal with. Produce 100, lose 10, and you have to rework those, or scrap them, and replace those with production that was intended for the next orders, which place you 20+ units behind. (10 lost + 10 made-up + What went wrong)
Why say 3 more weeks until shipping? Because they don't know if you are order #1 or order number #1000. Because they think it will take a week, but to be generous, they say 3, to cover all grounds. Someone will get it sooner, someone will get it later. In the end, everyone who ordered one, will get one.
If you wanted it earlier, you could have.... Done nothing... none existed before now.
If you couldn't handle the risk, you could have... Not made the purchase... others will gladly buy your order-number/place from you.
If you needed the money back, you could have... Asked for a refund... they do give refunds.
As for not returning a ROI... That is a crock of crap. These things will produce more value then you spent on them, and more value than you spend to operate them, for the next two years, easily. Stop looking at the price now. Look at the price when you will be cashing-out. If you cash-out as you earn, you are the reason you are not getting any ROI. Every time you cash-out, you lower the value and lower your next return. Try using a value of $6000/BTC for your btc-calculators, which is when you will most-likely be cashing-out, or $2000/BTC if you are stupid. $150,000/BTC if you are smart, and in this for the long-haul. (Well after you have stopped mining.)
Why do you think people are spending billions on these things? Yes, billions have been spent on hardware, farms, services, and flat-out buying BTC. You jump in the game late, you pay more and gain less. But, we all have a lot to gain for years to come still.
There was, and has always been, the option to just buy BTC directly. Which, honestly, is more profitable than mining any coins at all. Miners no-longer determine the price of the coin, only the floor of the coin.
Why buy a miner? Because BTC is not the best coin to mine. It is great to be given, but all other coins are better to mine. Simply because they are easier to mine and have not matured yet. Those other coins will do exactly like BTC has done, and go 10x, 100x, 1000x, 10000x, in time. That is where you want to mine, instead of buy. (Actually you want to do both.) The values of alt-coins will never rise if you don't mine them. The more you mine them, the more others have to ask for value. Because they get less, and have less to cash-in. Then there is "new coins", that have not been created yet. With these miners, you get a prime front-row seat to a majority of the volume, compared to bitcoins, where you barely get a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a coin in return. (Again, the secret it so hold even when value seems the worst. Then buy, when it is the worst, to raise the value of your held-coins and "cut losses" or "increase value" of held coins.)
You are in the game... It is time you started learning how to play it. Otherwise you are just a spectator with a toy, standing in the game-field.
P.S. $1200/BTC... That was NOT the spike... That was the prelude to the spike. Slightly premature and high, but not the spike for this coin-year. The spike is coming over the next three months. There is still time to get a decent miner by that time. (The coin-year is not aligned with the normal year. It is off by a few months. Wait until income-tax refunds start rolling-in.)
P.P.S. What that chart above actually shows, is that we are reaching our technology limit and also a "production limit" of units in-hand. (Not to mention dissipation across more valuable coins than BTC. Others figured that out, and soon the rest will too.) Translation, difficulty is still climbing, but it is slowing down. Thus, actually falling off projection. Until 100PHs units come. If they come. Thus, perfect time to be buying all these THs machines like mad. That just extended your returns and shortened your ROI projections. Going from 35% expansion to only 19% expansion per difficulty change, and slowing down until we all own THs units. (Remember, as each new THs unit comes online, several GHs units go offline.)
OMG - you have to be the chosen on - the prophecy.
You project bitcoin prices like it´s a sure thing they will reach 150k/btc.
That´s hilarious!
And sure altcoins will all reach unsurmountable highs; you better bet your house on dogecoin then - right?
If you didn´t realize by now that the value lies in the network rather than in the algorithm - you didn´t understand much imho. Algorithms can be changed. It´s more likely that mining altogether will be switched out to a entirely different proof-of-work mechanism or maybe just another hashing algorithm than for some alt-coins to succeed.
But go on - keep ignoring the risks involved!
Regarding bitmine - everyone knows what
could be the reason for delays. The whole point is to keep your customers informed. They (bitmine) engage a whole customer support team and claimed to overdeliver all along - but are not able to write frequent blogposts that might answer most customer´s questions.
THAT´s the worst example of customer support - and everyone who has ever started a company knows that support is brutal but immensely important.
How about you keep it to facts rather than your sole opinions?
i am in the same boat. just endure another 2 weeks or so. At least not in another 2 month waiting like BFL. 
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