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Title: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: mrmintmaker on April 16, 2013, 01:00:10 AM Is it even possible? Most of the sellers want BTC only, and refuse to accept PayPal. Are these scams?
Is there a way to verify that the seller has modified the shipping address, and can not change it later? Would you buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Thanks in advance! Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: termhn on April 16, 2013, 01:03:36 AM I wouldn't buy a BFL pre-order period.
Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: Dervana on April 16, 2013, 01:08:21 AM But......... they're shipping in two weeks! ;D
Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: silient on April 16, 2013, 01:09:53 AM Lol. sure they are.
Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: Peleus on April 16, 2013, 01:15:56 AM Buying BFL from eBay - The chance of two scams for the price of one!
Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: wrenchmonkey on April 16, 2013, 01:31:37 AM BFL is vaporware until it actually ships. No way in hell I'd send payment in bitcoins for an ebay transaction for a product that doesn't even exist yet.
I was pretty sure that ebay banned selling products you don't actually have. I'd report the sellers, and then run like hell from that scam. The day I see confirmed customers receiving their Butterfly products is the day I order one. Not a moment before. Does that mean I'll be behind the curve? Maybe, but then again, I also won't be giving out interest free loans on thousands of dollars... Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: Merchant on April 16, 2013, 01:35:27 AM Trying to buy a product from BFL has lower odds of paying out than winning the lottery.
Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: dhenson on April 16, 2013, 01:36:32 AM Not only do you have to be careful of being outright scammed, but BFL ships not on order number but on payment date. Someone could very easily be selling a sub 3k order number that just got paid off this month.
However... even if you wait until they are actually shipping their product, you are likely to receive a quick ROI. Check out this handy calculator that takes into account increasing network difficulty. http://bitcoininsight.com/2013/04/05/bitcoin-mining-profitability-calculator/ Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: keiichicom on April 16, 2013, 02:33:16 AM You maybe better off to buy an asic miner from Avalon, they have actually shipped, although they are sold out of the current batch...and you would have to wait a while.
Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: georgeberz on April 16, 2013, 02:52:36 AM In reading the Avalon site... they are not responsible if the hashing protocol changes... could turn all of em into paper weight... I wonder if bfl will do the same?
Title: Re: How do you safely buy a BFL pre-order on eBay? Post by: darkmule on April 16, 2013, 03:14:06 AM Same way you safely buy a unicorn or any other imaginary entity safely on eBay. You don't.
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