1. I don't set the price so please stop calling me greedy. You guys don't seem to realize what I've gone through to deliver you machines on time that made you ROI a long time ago. I've worked my ass off since july to make this happen. It makes me sad that it's all so quickly forgotten due to the exact thing you're now accusing me of.
2. Before you start calling people greedy, think what would you do in Tytus's place. He has hardware than makes shitloads of money for him. Would you sell your miner even to your friend who really-really wants to start mining at the price you paid in september? All of you have made ROI with our hardware. Now you want MOAR. And you want even faster ROI and MOARMOARMOAR. There's a name for this kind of mentality
3. The primary reason why we don't have hardware to sell is the shortage of chips. Not too long ago people were complaining 15 per chip is too expensive and that our hardware is too expensive. This sends a signal to manufacturer that there's no market for the product. This is why we didn't do large volume production, but only produced enough for Tytus's mine which is based on the new H-card, so no chips were left for old H-cards.
1. I call it how I see it. You guys are setting prices so they will never ROI in Bitcoins or it will take a very, very long time. Prices on h-cards have been pumped up by over 232% for relatively the same performance. The only other people who have tried this scheme are Avalon and Asicminer and they are now failing in the consumer market. You say ROI in hardware has been made, this is only true in the sense of cash value, however its a negative loss in Bitcoins at the time.
And I corrected you. This is not my hardware. These are not my chips. I cannot sell them for less than what I need to pay for them. People are sending me 100 e-mails per day asking for hardware so I pressured Tytus to release some of the units we were going to be using in the mine. I asked him what the price was and this was the number I got.
2. I look at Tytus's place, the view of greed seems to have increased. Not long ago people were complaining your hardware was expensive, and yes...it still is. You want to talk about us wishing we have more hardware...well yeah...DUH...we want more hardware...why would I buy 5 starter kits? I was hoping to populate at least 1 kit. I am willing to pay a fair price. Right now paying 1 bitcoin or 850 euros or $1162 USD tells me that you guys are being more greedy than us and frankly the rest of the asic hardware market.
Again, stop saying "you guys". I'm not the one who sets the price. You're insulting me when you accuse me of this. Tytus has increased picostocks 100TH mine to 500TH, what do you think of that?
3. Excuses are like assholes, everyone has them and they all stink. This applies to 1, 2, and 3.. I've offered to setup chip packaging services with sales representatives at my company. Right now we are the #2 Chip packager in the world. Buzzdave seemed interested, however Tytus said no. Ignore help, quicker delivery and cost savings at your own peril.
PM me about packaging.
4. If you guys stay on this trend. More and more people will start to share my sentiment. Confidence in bitfury products will decrease.
I share your concern. This is not the way I wanted it to go either, but I'm not the boss and do not set the rules. Hopefully in the future I will have the possibility to offer BTC ROI guarantee on my products.
