Ha, I was just about ready to post about them! (just got back from the family holiday thing)
Yvonne says the V1s came in and will be shipped out tonight.  Both Fed-ex and UPS were backed up with packages, and with the holidays - it made a nice mess of things.

I want to apologize about putting them online saying they were in stock, I did not know they were on the way.  After the New Year, we're going to have a full-time dedicated shipping & receiving person in the warehouse and I am here to ensure that we make sure there is less of a communications gap with everyone.

In other news, just got done with a nice 'How-to' guide for the V3s - taking about 220 pages and consolidating it into an easy to read guide with pictures and links. 

I also have a quick question for those with V3 kits - did anyone have any trouble setting the IP addresses with the V3 image over the V2 and V1 images?  Just curious.

Don't bother. At the current prices, there's no use buying these.

Yeah really. They've probably received less than 20 orders in the last 2 weeks. That guy's going to be twiddling his thumbs most of the day.

Can we hope that means they'll finally offer reasonable prices? (~$6k for a full rig)

+1 and +1

Bitfury is really falling behind in my eyes. unless they can keep up they will make no sales. (IMO, an H-board should already be less than 0.7BTC if they want to keep up with the competition)

You are missing their business objectives.  They sold boards to fund their mine.  You, the consumer, are no longer needed until they liquidate existing stock for next gen.

I agree that 3.15 BTC may be hard to get back. The 4.25BTC batch though has already returned around 2.5 BTC per miner though

and im happy buying hardware as long as it can return at minimum 90% of its cost, since the hardware retains 'ebay value' and is something of a hobby.

Guaranteed solution: manually tune your chips and do not use the autotune feature (it's not that clever either way and you will be better able to tune the chips yourself)

Please shoot both me and Yvonne an email so we can get to the bottom of this.  First time I'd heard of it. 
sales@
support@

Thanks,
Jason

Distributors worldwide are sold out of the chips. They are purportedly going to be back in stock late January early February