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Anyone else get this email?!



Order ID: 1020
Date Ordered: 03/10/2012

Your order has been updated to the following status:
Ready To Ship

To view your order click on the link below:


The comments for your order are:

Hello, we are excited to let you know that your order and payment has been processed. Your shipping invoice has been printed and will be ready to go when your bASIC has been assembled and released from test.

Thank you for your business!

Please reply to this email if you have any questions.

Now we wait till they are ready with testing...
Lets hope they will be done soon so you can post some pictures.
Then i will order mine.

I got this email too, but am a little confused.

My order has been marked as "Ready to Ship" and it says they printed the shipping invoice.
However, it also says that the product is still being assembled and has yet to be tested.

Call me old fashioned but shouldn't things be assembled/tested first before being classified as "ready to ship"?

Perhaps I'm reading into the definition of "ready" too deeply?

Ha i agree with you there, it makes no sense at all. Seems like they just wanted to be the first to say "ready to ship".

very odd

Yep, doesn't mean what it says. It's explained in details on the btcfpga forums.
This is the usual problem with small webshops: the states and workflows don't match anything more than the simplest processes.

https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=79.0

Woohoo...ASIC's just in time to show up right after the reward drop.  Should be a wild ride the next month or two..

Understatement of the year.  ;)

See end of this thread..... and my reply.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119761.40

so it will be assembled and tested . after that they will ship it to you (as it would normally be assumed). Am i the only one that finds that a bit funny ?

can you imagine if you applied this to a heart operation?

READY TO SHIP = "Your husband is out and making a full recovery".

WHEN YOUR BASIC HAS BEEN ASSEMBLED = "I'm now going to run some tests and see what's wrong with your husband"

o.0

It is an IQ test.

Cannot connect to BTCFPGA.com. Wanted to check if i also got this "READY TO SHIP" status update.
grmbl.
Anything big expected for today on BTCFPGA (like Apple store down and everybody freaking out) ? I am not familiar with the latest news....

[07:04] <buzzdave__> btcfpga.com down for everyone?
[07:04] <buzzdave__> along with the forum
[07:04] <Nezin> down for me
[07:05] <buzzdave__> been slow all day...now it fell on its face
[07:05] <buzzdave__> Nezin: has nothing to do with the refund thing
[07:05] <MobiusL> was extra slow earlier
[07:05] <Nezin> I know.
[07:05] <Nezin> http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.btcfpga.com
[07:06] <buzzdave__> oh yeah forgot about that site haha
[07:06] <MobiusL> must be BFL :P
[07:09] * Joins: [JT]- (~justin@2001:470:e885:0:855:e636:5287:27a2)
[07:17] <buzzdave__> well, I can't hit the server to mess with it so I guess Tom will have to get it going again.  Bitcoinasic.com is still up - different server :D

I'm not panicking ... yet

ASIC cause as much FUD as pirateat40

www.btcwebhost.com/ is down that is why the forums are down

edit..
and they are back up

Really ? I cannot confirm that.

Well then, i will wait till tomorrow. One day will not worry me.
I do not expect a surprisingly shipped bASIC either...

It's been up and down all day.

BFL posters have reported receiving email stating that new delivery date for bASIC is January 2013.  You never know whether these target dates are best or worse case scenarios.

Pretty sure they are talking about BFL products being shipped in January. Or link to someone saying bASIC sent me an email that batch 1 will be shipped in January 2013 please.

You keep posting this, which posters are you talking about? All I can find is this but it doesn't say anything about bASIC.
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/437-asic-update-26-november-2012-a-5.html#post6332

Yeah, something's not right there. By this definition, BFL's ASICs would be "ready to ship" because someone in China is actively assembling parts...

People were talking about it in the Shoutbox.  More than one person reported receiving the email. 

Couldn't be bullshit at all, nope. I report I have received NO email about this. Thanks.

You left the shoutbox too early, the guy was reading bASIC where the mail did not mention a company, but it was supposed to be coming from bfl? What the poster's order # was, is not mentioned

Will Tom's post on his own forum convince you?

https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=125.0

For the record, I'm not a BFL supporter.  My interest is in seeing those who've pre-ordered ASICs get the most accurate information possible about when they can expect delivery.  I think Tom has done pretty well at this to date but that people are understandably frustrated when significant delays are only announced at the 11th hour, no matter which company is announcing a delay.  I think many people would rather have a company say "February" and deliver on time or early than have them give a date and keep pushing it back.

The btcfpga thread was posted after you made the post from the shoutbox, which was referring to a mail he got from bfl regarding his recent order, and was later corrected in that same bfl shoutbox by the one posting it there when people asked where he read "bASIC".    But indeed, they all seem in the same boat now, I don't see BFL shipping large numbers, or at all, before Christmas too.