I've been following this thread for some time now. And there isn't much talk about Titans.
I'm planning to buy one, can anyone give some more insight?
The simpliest way to look at it is there is no refunds for Titan. You are basically giving your money to KNC to do whatever they want with it and you cannot get it back. That's a phenomenal risk to take.
If there are delays, then you have no way to get your money back. If they don't ship it until 2016, then there is nothing you can do.
There are already companies shipping asic scrypt miner. Take a look at their offerings. 300gh might look tempting, but not if you get it in 2016. It'll be worthless.
Think this is impossible? BFL have done this multiple times and KNC are very close friends with BFL. I'm sure KNC have being exploring the legality of missing their stated deadlines, so they probably know they can get away with it if their T&C's are worded correctly. The solution with Neptune is to offer datacentre hashrate rather than the actual goods, so they can legally maintain the customer is not losing out.
If you've kept up with this thread, it should be very obvious KNC are not a trustworthy company. You have seen the pictures of those shitty Frankenjups KNC shipped, right? And how they dealt with people, pulling out bits from their T&C's to insist they own no one anything. Many people still haven't got 3TH yet and KNC's 90 day warranty for Frankenjups is getting closer to expiring! What then??
Also remember - scrypt coins are not bitcoin. In Q3, doge could be dead and gone. Litecoin difficulty will be sky high. It's a massive gamble to lay down $10k - the same price as a btc miner - to mine coins worth only a fraction of btc value. People's trust is in Bitcoin - scrypt coins - not so much.
I say Q3 but Q4/2015/2016 are quite possible shipping dates too. If you buy into a "no refunds" product, you have to wait. KNC don't care if you make a profit. They are only interested in taking your money, fulfilling the bare minimum of their obligations and then telling you to fuck off. KNC will make sure they benefit from their technology before you do, it's obvious from building their ASIC datacentre.
In short, KNC have shown nothing but contempt for customers since last October. This year they reach new all time high of deviousness and greed. I would say it's total insanity to order a Titanic from them. They have screwed EVERY SINGLE one of their customers - new and old - with the datacentre. They are competing against the people who gave them the money to exist. The datacenter ensures that Neptune customers are going to get a very poor return on their investment.
That makes them completely untrustworthy. Your money will go to building them a scrypt mining datacentre. You will probably get a product sometime in the future, but most likely when it's no longer profitable.
And your calculations of making your money back in a month are just wrong. There is no way you can make any realistic calculation on what 300gh will be earning in September and September is best case scenario. You need to factor in you are dealing with greedy fraudsters, so September needs to become December or January or April 2015, as a factor of safety. And there is no way you can estimate what earnings will be then.
No one can stop you from buying a Titanic. Maybe KNC will ship it in two weeks and you'll earn a kazillion dollars. I'll leave it to others to convince you how great a Titanic is and how rich you will become. But from my experience of KNC and seeing how they have acted since last October, my feeling is anyone investing in it will lose and only KNC will win. It's their business, they have your money and you have zero power or rights in the deal. Caveat emptor and all that shit.