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(From the Newsletter)

Clear for take off, abide a week late.

Deadline has arrived so an update is in order, earlier this week the shipping problem is more or less solved and we are gearing up to dispatch the units, due to the week of delay from before compounded with lingering issues with the recovery from CNY the outlook for shipping time-frames are the following:

Starting from next Monday, units will be en route to their country of destination and tracking numbers will follow maybe 2~3 days after (it is at this point onward which you can expect an email from us with the tracking information), we expect this process to continue to the 10th of March until all the units have been shipped out, if all is well people will get their units in-hand in the middle of March.

 
Trade-In Situation
After much thought, we believe we have figured out the best system for Trade-Ins that will allow people to continue to mine with their FPGA as long as possible yet still able to get their ASIC on the second batch on time. The process will work as follows:

A week before batch #2 is ready to ship, we will make an announcement to those who wish to trade-in their last generation units to sent in their units, once we receive the units a custom order will be made for you to pay the difference depending on what you have trade-in, remember 1 trade-in discount/coupon is allowed per 1 Avalon unit. For clarification the shipping priority is as such:

Sorted from Highest to Lowest.

Developers - e.g. bitcoin core dev and other bitcoin contributor we feel deserve this treatment.
Trade-Ins/Old Customers - your unit will ship soon as we receive the FPGA and you've paid the difference.
Regular Batch #2 Customers - Unfortunately you are not special.
 
Other Fun News
This scheduled newsletter had failed because we surpassed the free 2000 MailChimp quota and manual action was required.
Christmas comes early this year. The present we got was the BFL March 1st bet earnings.
Looking back, it was not terribly surprising that failure and delay comes from the only thing not taken cared in-house, Shipping.
Lessons learned. Batch #2 process will have improvements, minor design adjustments and other goodies.

Thank you for the update, got my newsletter this morning.  Exciting times.   Can't wait.

Now if they'd only confirm my order... !

Same here.


Anyway I prefer to see they ship than handle support even if i would like to be cnfirmed for my order in batch 2

Me too.  Shipment is most important in their list of priorities.   Glad to see an update on the 1st.

When will batch 3 open?

Seems Avalon is in bulk shipping since today.

I just received my another 3 units.

Goods is shipped via sf-express.


http://www.unifycall.com/update/3avalon.jpg

Time to reap your rewards.  Congratulations. 

 :o HOLY PAYDAY BATMAN!

Congratulations :)

Release the hounds!

Or more like "Let slip the dogs of war"

Congrats on your additional "babies"

1300 bucks a day ? Am I figuring that up right ? I believe he has 5 now. That's sickening if so.

Not for long.

But long enough.

On the contrary, it's what everyone who pre-ordered ASICs early dreamed of - nobody orders 5 ASICs "to strengthen the network".

let's watch the difficulty curve in these days.

By the time I get my Avalon 2, I'll make around.. $30.00 a day?

Looks like it and it's all because we "common folk" that have paid up money in front are not "special" and have no "entitlement"


This has been a great experience so far ;-)

In a few decades, I plan on selling my Avalon as a collector's item at Sotheby's or something. :)

Looks like March will bring huge leaps in difficulty, 250 or so Avalon @ 66 GH/s + what looks like 25 x 80 GH/s pre-assembled units from "PrimeAsic - 80 Ghash/sec Asic Miner"

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148832.0;all

Oh and ASICminer also putting the rest of their 12 TH/s online

If BFL joins the party in April then the outlook for batch #2 orders is going to take a long time to break even... Too bad batch #1 wasted an entire month by shipping out so late...

Are you Chinese? I see the sf-express :)
When did you place your order?

Lucky I don't want one, otherwise if I held them to their word they'd have to ship me an Avalon as soon as I sent them one of my Icarus and paid the difference :D :D

This is where power usage will become the critical factor.

You forget the little detail where you have to be able to get an order in first, you know, queuing at the DDOS'd walletbit transaction site with the rest of the plebs

Anyone care to place bets on all this?

I'm worried another one of my bets are going to lose out :(

I thought you couldn't afford to buy them?

What is your latest bet? (I don't gamble)

I can't :P

Has anyone outside of China gotten a tracking number yet?

Here take a look at this thread. Looks like this person is in China.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148212.0

Thanks.

I just copied this from my signature  :)

My Current Bets...
BFL will Deliver ASIC before bitcoin difficulty reaches 6,500,000 (http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=1289)
The BTC Mining hashrate will reach 50TH before BFL deliver an ASIC (http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=1288)

Are you betting against them?

any news there?

anyone else called DHL lately to see if there's anything inbound to their address?

Seems no. Probably the day will be tomorrow. If we get a copy of the invoices which are traveling with packages it will make my day!
 

Can't wait to read about all the happy people.

I think there is a big Chinese conspiracy here. Yes a couple people have got them. But other than that only the Chinese

Same here, nothing yet besides 1st march mail in subject.

If I had known about all this, I'd have mine sent to one of the chinese people for a couple of months, split the profits and then shipped over to me after the storm had settled :D

We owe the Chinese a lot of money. So this is just one way of recouping their funds.

Try, but IIRC Mr. Y.Guo of Bitsyncom is a resident of Brooklyn.