Would you buy a bitmaintech R4 with paypal.

philipma1957

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Quote from: tmfp on August 31, 2016, 02:38:57 PM

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If I use my paypal account and fund the purchase with my discover card I get 1 more year warranty I go from 90 days to 15 months.

I am sure you've done your research in your usual thorough way Philip, but

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Discover Extended Warranty....Doubles manufacturer's warranty or a purchased service contract, up to 12 months. Applies to manufacturer warranties of 3 years or fewer.

from http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/compare-extended_warranties-1273.php

Looks like you double from 90 to 180 days to me?

I could have missed it and thanks for correction so in my case I would be at only 180 days. Need to check if my Amex is better.

But frankly I really am looking to get the year warranty on this item.

So if all cc's will only 2x from 90 to 180 and 180 is far from roi this poll is a waste of them. Let me look further into my other cc's.

So far I found this and I will lock poll

http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/compare-extended_warranties-1273.php

all of the above info indicates 90 becomes 180 unfortunately 180 days does not cut it.

So basically the poll is a waste of time as I won't buy the R4 with a 180 day warranty.

I would rather take my chances with another s-9.

tmfp

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If I use my paypal account and fund the purchase with my discover card I get 1 more year warranty I go from 90 days to 15 months.

I am sure you've done your research in your usual thorough way Philip, but

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Discover Extended Warranty....Doubles manufacturer's warranty or a purchased service contract, up to 12 months. Applies to manufacturer warranties of 3 years or fewer.

from http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/compare-extended_warranties-1273.php

Looks like you double from 90 to 180 days to me?

HerbPean

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I lost faith in Bitmain ... 90 fays warranty and it's hard to get it.

The S9 has a bad ratio of failure and looks like a bad warranty service.

So I wouldn't risk any money on a R4, especially a complete new design at an overrated price.

ROI is long, one failure = money lost.

Short answer. Absolutely not.

philipma1957

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Okay the s-9 has had failures and warranty issues.

I have a thread on my two dead boards and how they are being replaced. (still waiting).
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/my-warranty-adventure-with-my-s-9-1599630

Bitmaintech has now offered the R4

Roi is 8 months or so with free power
Roi is 10 months or so with 8 cent power
Roi is 13 months or so with 10 cent power

Warranty is 90 days.
Forgetting how hard a warranty is to have serviced.

90 days is way shorter then 8 to 13 months.

Bitmaintech has allowed some sales of the s-7 and s7-ln the 1600 watt psu all via paypal.

So I ask would you order an R4 if you could pay with paypal?

If I use my paypal account and fund the purchase with my discover card I get 1 more year warranty I go from 90 days to 15 months.

And buying an r4 looks much more reasonable. So I vote yes to this.

I self modded the pool as I don't want nasty racists insults against Bitmaintech or China.

So if you write: no I will never buy from those !#@$!^ Chinese !$@^# I will delete your comment.

I am tired of reading insults like that.

If you write :no I don't like their buisness methods So I will never buy from them! that is not going to be deleted.

I want to remind all:

they sell gear to us most every other company does not sell us gear

They need a better warranty setup maybe paypal with the r4 would be a start

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