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I would like to purchase an Avalon ASIC. I am located in Philly. Thanks

No problem, I prefer bitcoin over $, you first :)

Holy F#$%!!!!!

I was actually thinking with a transaction like this, we should meet in person at a safe location in a bank or something. I am willing to travel, if you can prove you have one.

Not possible, I'm from Europe.

Can only work like this: you pay $10.000 in bitcoin and you receive one Avalon by DHL.

Stop busting my balls.  :D 

Oh ok, I never get used to American bluff...  ;)

Transaction would go something like this:

1) Buyer shows up
2) Seller shows up
3) Both exchange handshakes and oddly suspicious looks
4) Buyer demands to see the hardware
5) Seller presents hardware
6) Seller gets a baseball bat to the head when he least suspects it
7) "Buyer" and accomplice walk away
8) Profit!

 :P

/trolling

haha

I did a face-to-face transaction w/ $2050 cash. 

I never really thought about it until someone else mentioned 'wtf, you're meeting a stranger w/ $2050 in cash in your wallet?'... =/

anyway, for a deal such as this, you'd probably want to go through a broker, eh?

sheesh with that kinda cash...why not just invest it all in btc and invest in btc long?

option: find another 20K and invest in a BFL MiniRig @ 1500 GH/s.

comparatively, your 10K investment fetches you a third of a MiniRig (or 500GH/s) vs. Avalon's 66 GH/s... but it's your cash..

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/men-convicted-in-sugars-waitress-robbery-get-sti-1/nRsfL/

These guys went hunting with bats several times a week.

Wow that's some crazy shit. This world is full of scumbags though so to minimize risk it would be best to conduct this exchange in a public coffee shop (when there a lot of people) and also to bring a friend or two.

I think I might have stickied this in a hurry while I was on mobile.  :-\
Unstickied.

No one has an Avalon ASIC out there? Still interested for now.

No one that would actually want to sell it ;)

Contact one of the ASIC manufacturers and ask to buy one of the testers.

Are you trying to hint you have one? Interested in selling it? ;D

No, I think he's trying to explain that the people who have one are mining like crazy right now and making tons of BTC.

That's wise. Perhaps he'd better buy some GPus  ;D

Bump, still interested.

I bet you are.  Isn't going to happen though unless you are paying a huge and I mean huge premium.

Well, I have not gotten any real offers. I think that is due to the fact that no one really has one yet. My offer still stands at $10,000 for anyone that might be interested. 

Too low, that is only $250 BTC @ ($40/usd).  They went for BTC100 at the time so you are only offering a $4,000 dollar premium over their cost.  I think you will find with where Bitcoins are going, you will need to offer more, like $15-20K.

The difficulty should skyrocket when the bulk of the orders ship. Also is your math off or is it me?

Well in two weeks an IN HAND A.A. will produce $4400.  In two more weeks it might do $3500.  Two weeks after that maybe $2500.  You are only offering around six weeks revenue.  Most people are going to want more then that.

And you can't forget that we don't know if the price is going higher. 

BTC price going up is uncertain, but difficulty going up is certain.

The problem is the most people believe in the scenario I support. 

It might be, but you are talking about an IN HAND unit.  We know what the difficulty is now and we can estimate reasonably accurately what it is in the next cycle. 

^^^^^  This

Seems like there is no winning this argument for me. When I first made my offer, someone calls me a bluffer. Now after BTC price skyrockets, my offer has become a lowball. I am OBO for anyone that has one in-hand to sell. ;D

Well Ill go to a chineese manufacterer and sell you a fake Avalon :D LOL

Bitcoin is a bit of an ugly audience to play to.

I don't know if this thread might interest you.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148101.msg0#new

I don't think he is selling, just a feeler. Thanks for your help.

Honestly, I want you to get what your looking for.   Its just with even the conservative calculations I have done.  $10,000 is not a realistic offer.  I would match and increase this offer right now, just to put it to fact. 

In theory, I will have an Avalon in-hand next week.

If it were purely a business decision, I might offer to sell it the same day for $25,000.

But emotionally, I really want my Avalon.  I don't want to just sell it right away for fiat.  I took the gamble of ordering it almost 6 months ago, and paid 114 BTC for it.  To sell it now for sure and easy money would be a cop-out.

Bump

There is still value in having that $25k right up front, all at once.  Money makes money.

if I had one and actually believed that bitcoin prices would continue to increase, I'd probably try to get you up to ~15k, then use that 15K to purchase bitcoins.  the second option would be to reinvest that 15k in even more ASICs.

i don't think they're going to keep going up, but apparently some other ppl in this thread do.  so, what's so bad about the offer?

If you're offering 10k plus for one I'm going to assume this is most likely a scam

http://www.bitcoinclassifieds.net/ad/3601_Avalon_ASIC_Bitcoin_Miner__65_Ghs_Speed_Guaranteed/ (http://www.bitcoinclassifieds.net/ad/3601_Avalon_ASIC_Bitcoin_Miner__65_Ghs_Speed_Guaranteed/)

Me and my brother were considering purchasing one off him - using paypal for added security but now I'm thinking probably not the best idea, they did seem a tad cheap

I think those are a scam. Those pictures aren't even their unit. Can anyone confirm that ad is a scam or not?

Edit: nvm just saw the price, mega scam.

Cash for ASIC, bump

$30,000

Sorry, but that it out of my budget. Thanks for the offer.

It'll take an Avalon about 2 months to break even at that price at the current difficulty. Sounds like a fair price.

This thread is amazing...

+1!

*hands out popcorn*

A batch 2 pre-order sold for $20.6k:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181105056846

Just cause it finished doesn't mean it's going to be paid for. I actually bid 17k on that with no plan on paying for it just to see if someone was crazy enough to go higher.

I think we have another scammer, Evan. Offered me an Avalon but chickened out when I asked for time stamped pictures. He has a good amount of posts too.

Cash for ASIC, OBO

So true. On PS3 launch day there were auctions for well over $20K. I doubt any of those were completed.

You are telling the whole bitcoin community that you deliberately violated the eBay rules, good auction etiquette, and were willing to greatly inconvenience the seller and anyone who would view the auction results.  That's pretty crummy.

+1

search on ebay for avalon asic...there is like 5-6 auctions going for preorders lol

Here is a very strange eBay item (http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-x-60-GH-s-Bitcoin-Miner-BitForce-Single-SC-ASIC-Butterfly-Labs-Avalon-/261188628637?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cd00e309d).

anything strange ... on the third picture  BFL single fpga

Bump, would like to increase my offer to $20,000. Thanks

I'll match that...(Sorry scyth :) )

You got yours already, go away :P

Some are scams on eBay, but for a fact, one is very legit and real.

Would you mind pointing out the real one?

Exposure to the bitcoin community causes many people to begin using the word "scam" to mean "any deal where I don't already have the profit in my own pocket."

If you find too many Avalons to buy, let me know, please.

Bump, send me some offers. Thanks

You are welcome to bid 0.8 BTC or more for a 1% share before delivery in my batch #2 machine as detailed in the link in my signature.

You offer is currently worth $20,000 * 0.01 / 189.68 (USD/BTC) -> 1.054407 BTC

Thanks for your offer. I will look more into it.

bump