This may or may not be a successful auction as I don't know if there is any demand for these devices or if the minimum price I am looking for is of interest to anyone, but I am going to give this a shot anyway.
I have
two, fully functional Icarus FPGA miners that are available in this auction. Each mines at 380 MH/s (see screenshot below).
The winner might choose to mine with these or the winner might choose to trade them in for priority access to Avalon Batch #2 (see below for details). Note, I do not guarantee anything with respect to the Avalon Trade-in process. The buyer takes on all risk associated with that trade-in process.
These will be shipped from Wisconsin in the US. I will cover the costs of standard shipping (UPS ground or equivalent) within the U.S. I will also ship internationally via the
US Postal Service for $50 (in BTC based on the exchange rate at the time of payment). If the winner would prefer a particular expedited shipping method, I am willing to do that with the winner paying the actual cost of shipping.
The rules for the auction are as follows:
- Each bid must indicate a price you are willing to pay per unit and how many units you want to buy (just 1 or both of them)
- Bid must be in increments of at least 0.1 BTC
- If you are bidding on both units are are only willing to win them as a pair and not an individual unit, say so explicitly.
- The auction ends at 4/20/13 02:00 UTC (based on the forum's time/clock). That is 9pm Central Time in the U.S, tomorrow night or approximately 33 hours from when this topic was posted.
- Any bid in the last 15 minutes of the auction automatically extends the auction by 15 minutes.
- The minimum starting bid is 5.0 BTC
Recommended bid styles:
"I bid 5 BTC for 1 unit"
"I bid 5.1 BTC each for both units"
I reserve the right to cancel the auction if necessary for reasonable cause. If I do so, all bids are
cancelled. I'm reserving this right simply because this is the first time I've done an auction like this,
and want an escape hatch just in case I've missed something critical.
(language stolen from casascius' auctions)
My current cgminer output:
Avalon Trade-in information that I have received:
Trade-In Situation
After much thought, we believe we have figured out the best system for Trade-Ins that will allow people to continue to mine with their FPGA as long as possible yet still able to get their ASIC on the second batch on time. The process will work as follows:
A week before batch #2 is ready to ship, we will make an announcement to those who wish to trade-in their last generation units to sent in their units, once we receive the units a custom order will be made for you to pay the difference depending on what you have trade-in, remember 1 trade-in discount/coupon is allowed per 1 Avalon unit. For clarification the shipping priority is as such:
Sorted from Highest to Lowest.
Developers - e.g. bitcoin core dev and other bitcoin contributor we feel deserve this treatment.
Trade-Ins/Old Customers - your unit will ship soon as we receive the FPGA and you've paid the difference.
Regular Batch #2 Customers - Unfortunately you are not special.
Those who wish to trade in your FPGA generation Icarus or Lancelot: it is time to package and RMA those units back to us.
The address to sent
Mr. Chen Xuyi
Xin Zhong Fa Dian Zi Shi Chang, 2319#
Zhong Guan Cun Da Jie 32 Beijing Hai Dian
China
100086
or in chinese
陈旭宜
新中发电子市场，2319#
北京海淀区中关村大街32号
+86 13801156072
State on the Box this is a Icarus/Lancelot RMA, in the box include your contact information (name, email is a must!), once received we'll get in touch with you.
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