yes, but now you got Knc, AntMiner, BlackArrow, Hashfast, Cointerra, etc.

But, the thing the sellers need to remember is that bitcoin goes up in jumps, not steadily. The difficulty on the other hand rises between expoential and linear. You can't justify raising the price because bitcoin value goes up. Difficulty already corrects for that by continually decreasing the amount of bitcoins any given miner can make.

I agree 100%!  And even if it was "unfair" in some way, as long as they can still sell their desired number of boards, then they are simply selling at the price the market will bear.

It's so simple to understand but people still just don't get it.  It's the MOST basic principle of economics... supply and demand.  If you think something is overpriced you have every right to not buy it.  Vote with your dollars, bitcoins, euros, whatever.  But you have no authority to tell anyone how they should price their products.

I think we are trying to offer hardware at a price that will support fast ROI - 2 months if prices hold up, less if prices continue to climb.  Those that complained about prices back in September/October got very quiet as BTC skyrocketed.  This is great - we cheer for our customers who had the courage to pre-order with us and now reap the benefit!

At this time, the only pre-order-able offer from me is going to be reels (deliver mid-late February) at $5/chip, or full mines (minimum 250TH, contact me if you are interested).  I will not be able to provide CC processing for chips by the reel, sorry.  Oh - after the debacle of last minute cancellations on reels, I won't be offering a refund policy on them.  They are Non Cancel - Non Return items.

I plan to turn on sales of H-cards tomorrow.  Remember, V1 H-cards will take a bit longer to get, but our manufacturer is very fast.  I will sell as many of those as you guys demand.  I do have some V1-V2 M-boards also, so I can offer some old-style full rigs.  Note that I am not planning on opening sales for full new rigs just yet - though it may happen.  The main intention is to support our V1 & V3 rig customers.  New style H-cards (marked V2.2) can ship immediately and are not pre-mined.

I'll turn on sales for USB miners maybe by this weekend, so you can buy them for stocking stuffers

There's also been a fair bit of demand for faulty fix-it-yourself cards.  I think I'll find a way to sell those, as I have a few hundred sitting in boxes.

Best,
Dave

thanks Dave, finally... i'll have my satoshis ready... 

Just thinking about this pricing issue a little more and I'm feeling a bit better about it now.  It's really matter of perspective and if you don't get hung up on the price you used to pay, it's really not a bad deal at all.

In the day of the $500 H board, I was so excited that I could earn enough BTC to buy another board every week or two and I still had to wait for the batches to be delivered.  Now I can buy a new board nearly every day as long as BTC stays around $1000 and it will be immediately delivered.  Granted, I have quite a bit more hashing power than I did then.  But it's all been due to my reinvesting BTC back into mining gear.

But the real kicker is this little gem... the price of an H board is going up about 225% or so.  But since the day of the $500 H board, BTC has gone up something like 700%.  Is my math right?  Lol.

So it's all relative people.  Don't panic!  Yeah, I was looking forward to $300 H boards too.  But I'll gladly take the 700% rise in the price of BTC over cheap H boards any day.

BTC dive down fast now.

Totally expected. At 1200 per BTC someone was going to eventually break and dump 20 or 30 thousand BTC in the market and cash out. We have a handful of new Bitcoin millionaires!

Hopefully you guys spent your BTC before the market adjusted itself back to normalcy! Now its back to collect the BTC and wait for a new bubble.

I'd expect to see a pretty large bump over Q1 2014. This is when 65/55nm devices will become 'obsolete'.

I am interested in buying faulty boards. Hope to hear something about that from Dave soon, but I will also buy direct from anyone monitoring this thread that has hardware sitting doing nothing for them. Same goes for anyone with bare chips laying around. PM me with your asking prices, I am not looking to low ball anyone and am open to any negotiation so all parties involved get a good deal.