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Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 194. (Read 3049514 times)

legendary
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October 28, 2014, 03:02:40 PM
I just want to point out again: Write to the investors and to the US-company which led the last investment deal. Make copies to the SEC. Send copies to US media. Send the US company tweets. Once the investors get nervous or the investos are confronted with the authorities, I am sure that KnC will pay refunds.
sr. member
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October 28, 2014, 02:30:07 PM
Are you guys suggesting refusing the shipment of Titans will result in refunds?

Or did you fight for them to agree to that?

No. I've got a lawyer involved. He told me to refuse delivery. He has sent a letter requesting a refund so the balls in KNCs court. Either they pay or I take them to court. Either way they can keep that piece of crap they call a "Titan"
sr. member
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October 28, 2014, 02:11:56 PM
Are you guys suggesting refusing the shipment of Titans will result in refunds?

Or did you fight for them to agree to that?

Yeah, would love to know if this works, as i haven't got mine yet, and asked 7 times for refunds, every time they said no.

They hold our funds hostage, how can this not be completely illegal?
full member
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October 28, 2014, 01:55:57 PM
Are you guys suggesting refusing the shipment of Titans will result in refunds?

Or did you fight for them to agree to that?
sr. member
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let's have some fun
October 28, 2014, 12:22:08 PM
My Miners are turning up today apparently. I'm refusing them. KNC did threaten to destroy them if I didn't accept the shipment

Wow you could not make this stuff up if you wanted to. KNC is acting like offering refunds on the Titan is an existential threat. Maybe it is. Investors take note.

I know right?

I sent them an email and I gave them some bullshit T&Cs of my own and said by shipping the Titans you accept my T&Cs. Then they backed down. What a bunch of wankers. Anyway UPS guy just arrived. I sent him on his way, he didn't seem too pleased about carrying 2 Titans back up the drive lol.

Now its in the hands of my lawyer.

..still laughing  Cheesy

thumbs up for this
sr. member
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let's have some fun
October 28, 2014, 12:18:55 PM
Apparently KNC is refusing to pay return shipping costs for RMA processing unless the product is DOA.

http://forum.kncminer.com/forum/off-topic/miners-cafe/65633-anybody-else-have-to-pay-to-rma-their-cubes-back

Is this a new policy or are they re-writing the rules because they are now planning to ship all the remaining batch 1 Titan machines in the next 3 weeks and expect high numbers of RMA claims ? How will people with the 'creeping cube degradation' problem (cubes work for a week or more and then slowly go bad) be affected ?


I know one with a DOA Jupiter board back in September '13.
They made him pay for shipping it back, too, even if he was pointing out that they have to pay for it.
sr. member
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October 28, 2014, 12:09:17 PM
My Miners are turning up today apparently. I'm refusing them. KNC did threaten to destroy them if I didn't accept the shipment

Wow you could not make this stuff up if you wanted to. KNC is acting like offering refunds on the Titan is an existential threat. Maybe it is. Investors take note.

I know right?

I sent them an email and I gave them some bullshit T&Cs of my own and said by shipping the Titans you accept my T&Cs. Then they backed down. What a bunch of wankers. Anyway UPS guy just arrived. I sent him on his way, he didn't seem too pleased about carrying 2 Titans back up the drive lol.

Now its in the hands of my lawyer.
legendary
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ex uno plures
October 28, 2014, 12:03:28 PM
Apparently KNC is refusing to pay return shipping costs for RMA processing unless the product is DOA.

http://forum.kncminer.com/forum/off-topic/miners-cafe/65633-anybody-else-have-to-pay-to-rma-their-cubes-back

Is this a new policy or are they re-writing the rules because they are now planning to ship all the remaining batch 1 Titan machines in the next 3 weeks and expect high numbers of RMA claims ? How will people with the 'creeping cube degradation' problem (cubes work for a week or more and then slowly go bad) be affected ?
legendary
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ex uno plures
October 28, 2014, 11:55:08 AM
My Miners are turning up today apparently. I'm refusing them. KNC did threaten to destroy them if I didn't accept the shipment

Wow you could not make this stuff up if you wanted to. KNC is acting like offering refunds on the Titan is an existential threat. Maybe it is. Investors take note.
legendary
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ex uno plures
October 28, 2014, 11:45:27 AM
Even Ikea?!?!   lol  Wink

No bonus points for mentioning Ikea, sorry. I would have given you +3 for mentioning the Swedish company PeePoo though ~L)L~

Seriously, Swedes need to be made aware of the extent to which companies like KNC soil (no pun intended) the good name of Swedish industry.
sr. member
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October 28, 2014, 11:41:57 AM
My Miners are turning up today apparently. I'm refusing them. KNC did threaten to destroy them if I didn't accept the shipment but they have backed down and are now saying they will accept them back but I will have to pay for shipping if I want them. Yeah right.

I've been contacting some big media outlets and there are a couple writing articles about this KNC fiasco. I have been contacted by another major name today. They are looking for info on anyone starting a lawsuit against KNC, so if you are and would like a chance to feature in the article please PM me as soon as possible so I can email the journalist.

I'll be writing to more news outlets this week. Lets see how easy it is to raise 50mil when investors read the crap KNC have been up to.

BTW I contacted GP Bullhound and Creandum about 2 weeks ago but have received no reply. I don't think they give a shit. They might change their tune when the BBC come sniffing around though.
hero member
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October 28, 2014, 10:03:09 AM
Magnus Daar from Nova responded to my e-mail. I think it is the best option for all EU based clients. There is already a number of people willing to join the group action (not a class action actually). I am 80% convinced to do it with Nova. I will keep you posted.

That's encouraging to hear. Is there an issue with North American or other non-EU resident clients participating ?

I will ask him. I see no problem however in instructing a Swedish lawyer by non-EU residents. THe problem starts if they want you to show up in the court. Then technically there is an option for hearings in the state of the claimants origin if the Swedish court decides so. THis would drag the trial in time as the instructions to the court would go thorough relevant ministries of Justice of the countries involved and probably incure massive costs so I do not believe the respondents would go down this path. THey would rather fight the claim on the front of liability and quantum. Anyway its the Swedish lawyers who decides.

I will write to them again tonight and ask further questions.
hero member
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October 28, 2014, 09:59:39 AM
Dame, could they just ask some experienced engineer for consult, that will help a lot of commission progress, I really fed up no thing progress like this.

Other possibility, they may be happy mining with our titans and dumping coins to the market, and pretending they just can't fix problems at all, and keep update us nonsense information like a dead cat, even a daed cat still bounce if you kick it, but KNC just not reaction even you shoot them with shotgun, WTF.
legendary
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October 28, 2014, 09:35:55 AM
Is it that Swedish company law actually allows for a company to screw their customer over so royally

Avoid doing business with a Swedish company and don't purchase products from Swedish companies.

Even Ikea?!?!   lol  Wink
legendary
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ex uno plures
October 28, 2014, 08:33:51 AM
Is it that Swedish company law actually allows for a company to screw their customer over so royally

Avoid doing business with a Swedish company and don't purchase products from Swedish companies.
member
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October 28, 2014, 07:47:44 AM
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Hi,

The production and shipping of the Titan miners has begun in the Q3 period as described in the product description at the time of purchase.
We will continue to produce and ship the miners as quickly as possible according to the payment dates of the orders.
The Titan miner is a nonrefundable product.

Please review our terms and conditions which can be found here: https://www.kncminer.com/pages/tandc
In our terms and conditions you will find under Delivery Terms:
8. Delivery Terms
8.1 The Products are delivered EXW (Incoterms 2010) to the delivery address specified by the Purchaser, unless otherwise agreed. The delivery date is provided for information purposes only and shall not be binding on KnCMiner. The Purchaser is not entitled to refuse acceptance of the Products, withdraw, cancel or revoke the order or make claims for compensation due to any delayed delivery.


Best regards
Med vänlig hälsning

Natalie

Kncminer
www.kncminer.com
Office: +46 8559 253
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This is a new low for KNC - they're now claiming they never meant to ship all titans by q3, but that shipping would begin by q3. FUCKING SCAMMERS!
legendary
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October 28, 2014, 06:32:49 AM
KnC's Kurt persistently and dishonestly posts the same lies about Q2/Q3 Titan shipping dates being an estimate, or regurgitating the same bs about how the product description only said shipping would commence in Q2/Q3, yet at the time they were seeking to convince people to buy into their pre-order, they were happily posting confident and definite assertions such as this one from Kurt on 20th March

Quote from: Kurt 20th March
All miners will be shipped within the Q2/Q3 timeframe that we have specified.

On the one hand they say that customers were made aware of the full facts of the ordering conditions at the time, yet on the other, in terms of due diligence research that most customers would have done to go further than the simple product description posted on their website, they were eager to make claims about how ALL miners would have been shipped WITHIN the Q2/Q3 timeframe.

So let me get this right, they are claiming that Swedish company law permits them to claim a product will be shipped within a specific timeframe, arrogantly announce that there will be 'No Refunds' for this product, then utterly fail to actually deliver when they said they would or, for that matter, with the product they said it would be, namely, there was no mention of it needing to be limited to specific pools in order to hash efficiently.

Is it that Swedish company law actually allows for a company to screw their customer over so royally, or are KnC simply ignoring the rule of law in terms of the fact that, surely, if the customer is cancelling, not simply on a whim but, because the company has filed to deliver, the 'Non Refundable Product' claimed by KnC is not applicable?
legendary
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ex uno plures
October 28, 2014, 06:08:22 AM
https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=22290.msg214719#msg214719

KNC's behavior towards their customers beggars belief.

They are shipping 'as soon as possible'. They RMA products 'as soon as possible'. They are fixing the flush work latency problem 'as soon as possible'. They are fixing the DC/DC problems 'as soon as possible'. They are fixing the 'creeping degradation' problem 'as soon as possible'. They are sending out Y cables 'as soon as possible'. They are refunding Neptune owners 'as soon as possible'. They are shipping bonus Neptunes 'as soon as possible'.

The only thing that don't claim to do 'as soon as possible' is issue refunds.

KNC, the little company that couldn't.
legendary
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ex uno plures
October 28, 2014, 05:36:34 AM
Titan update from kncnews.org regarding the flush latency problem:

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Nicehash has twigged to the flushwork problems. After initial attempts to work with KNC to make their pools Titan friendly, it sounds like KNC have ducked and Nicehash is now asking Titan owners to test for them. LTC isn't a problem, its altcoins with fast block times, low network hash rate and rapid difficulty changes.

Nicehash commented (emphasis added)

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Could someone test the latest Titan firmware on stratum.nicehash.com or stratum.westhash.com with a starting difficulty of d=2048 or even higher? Keep in mind that not only pool difficulty (this can be set), but also coin difficulty affect miner performance ... Litecoin is not an issue (it has a high coin difficulty), but altcoins usually have a small coin difficulty - and this is also the part where Titan get's inefficient.

KNC have acknowledged the problem and have been trying to fix it but it is still an issue with the current firmware release. Some observers conjecture that the problem is an architectural one that can't be completely solved in software and that KNC's recent bump of the clock rate of the Titan was an effort to try to bring the very poor performance of the Titan when mining some of these fast block time altcoins up to its promised minimum 300 Mh/s in order to pre-empt refund requests based on non-performance of the Titan.
legendary
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ex uno plures
October 28, 2014, 04:30:33 AM
KNC is a pretty big company

No they're not. They are a pissy little company that are already too big for their own boots. They can't even ship a working product these days.

When I first started working in the research labs of a big telecommunications company who were developing an operating system called unix and a protocol called SS7, there were over 6000 people in the building I worked in, including a number of nobel laureates.

That was a big company.
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