Miners landed in Cologne

For those who missed the explanation on the dust,

Well I would imagine that they have their own pool.  Whether it's live-net, or test-net-in-a-box.  Seems pretty straight forward to me.  They are also the default field values in the firmware.  If you use the reset button these fields automatically go back to the antminer values.  So even if the machine had never been switched on and connected to a mining pool/network you would still see those values there.

 Respectfully, what alternative method do you recommend they use to test their products ?

 It makes perfect sense to me, and I don't see what the problem is.

6 confirmations are required for most companies to consider the amount paid.

Guys, should be looking at the brightside of things.... Who cares if these are "used", so what, he made a killing off them before we did... all ASIC manufacturers do this.
these were never advertised as new, just in stock and ready to ship.
Should be grateful that we got a good price on them and that they work.

Quoting Bitmain, from Jan. 13:

"Hi all, we have sold out the testing batch. All the bought miners will be shipped no later than Wednesday, most likely Tuesday.

Now we only reserved some of the S1 only for testing antminer's mining pool. More Ants are being produced.

Thanks for your support, and we will open sales for another batch of miners in about 2~3 days, which will be shipped in 3~4 days from now. "

Have you seen some of the photos I posted on the previously page?   Your opinion might change.

My first miner arrived totally clean. No dust. Nothing.

...I'm really hoping my other 3 arrive in the same condition.

Im also hoping this is just a case of... people only making a noise when something is wrong. Everyone with nice new and clean machines don't say anything. So the bad few are making the whole bunch look bad ...if ya get what I mean 

I can accept the dust story Bitmain gave earlier, and generally I'm very pro-Bitmain, but come on guys, one of those pics in particular is NOT a few days dust. I've opened many used PC's for repairs and there's a huge difference between dust resulting from construction work nearby settling on the product, versus accumulated dust builtup over months - which is what I see in at least one of Billson's pics

Nothing Bitmain has posted here suggests to me that they are going to stand-over that.
I've read back over all the Bitmain posts in this topic (quickly) and I can see nothing that says these are 2nd hand units for sale.
In my opinion this is just not acceptable and I do not think this is the standard Bitmain is aiming for, everyone makes mistakes and this, in my view, is one of Bitmains mistakes.  I'd be amazed if they try to defend or legitimise this.

EDIT : On last page Bitmain clearly say these are new machines tested for 24 hrs or at most 3-5 days