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Hello Bitcoiners,

Who we are:
We are Shenzang LLC, a small company from China. Some time ago we have purchased 160.000 Avalon ASIC chips, and dedicated all our resources into diving into the bitcoin market. We have a total of 30 employees, and I hope that we will expand soon. But first of all, I would like to present you all our latest project.

The miner:
We have developed a PCB Board that is made of AVALON Asic Chips in 110nm production. We decided to copy the principle Avanlon's popular miners base on ... so we designed a case similar to the AVALON Miner that takes up to 4 blade modules. Each blade is equipped with 80 Avalon ASICs and is fully interchangable with the real AVLAON device. The Device we are selling comes with 3 modules equipped and has still one free slot.
Measurements have shown a total of up to 72 GH. That is only 8 GH lower than the real device. All parts are equipped with aluminium cooling parts, that are air cooled buy powerful fans. Also the miner is equipped with a 1300W Tagan power supply with full manifacturer warranty.

The quantity:
We have already sold around 490 devices so unfortunately only 10 are left for sale. Usually we sell on alibaba.com, a friend just gave me the hint to sell a few devices on bitcointalk.org with the hope to get a few new customers for our next batch: We have ordered a batch of 28nm ASIC chips from bitmine.ch and will roll out a 500GH miner not later than march 2014.

The price:
We decided to shoot out the last 10 pieces for around 1 BTC. Regular price was 1.5 BTC but we do not want to make a profit on those ones. We actually hope to get some good reputation here and get some buyers for our next batch. Note: We are not taking any pre orders, so you will have to be a bit patient until the 500GH miners will come out in March.

Shipping:
We ship anywhere in the world, shipment outside China would be 0.2 BTC extra though. Also we do not cover any customs costs. Please check them in advance to avoid bad surprises.

JUST PM ME, IF YOU WANT TO GRAB ONE OF THOSE

NOTE: Just to be completely straightforward: These are not original AVALON Miners, but they are really good replicas equipped with original AVALON ASIC Chips doing around 72 GH. Power supply is an original Tagan 1300W.

http://i40.tinypic.com/zwnapz.jpg

Escrow? I am interested in 2 @1 each, would you sell for cheaper without the psu (and not to mention saving on shipping)

I too am interested. But, its 1300W for 72 Ghash?

I'll take whats left after these guys are done.

Escrow?

Will take some for escrow. Reserve me one?

hello interest 1
escrow?
where you from?
eu o us?

He says actual power consumption is 800 watts...sort of high for 72ghs, but who cares if power is cheap???

Who knows anything about the customs issue?  I have NO idea what the duty would be.  Can someone advise on the best way to handle that?

1 for me

watch out, he is a new user, use ESCROW !

This. +1

I'll buy right now if escrow is offered dibs in line.

What is your account on alibaba.com?

When I search your company name I receive no results?

I would be interested, pending more details about the company, product, escrow, etc.

I'm backing out. After thinking about it I dont like the seller not handling the customs side of things.

What is the potential USA customs charge on something like this?

Interested also, 2 pm´s send

aahummm sounds fishy, i didnt find details of the company anywhere on the net

because they do not answer the questions?

looks like a scam

Could be, but a new user is quite limited as to PM's and posts.

This is the company he mentioned:  http://sinosigma.net/contactinfo.html (http://sinosigma.net/contactinfo.html)

He mencioned ?? Where did he mencioned ?? I didn´t saw information regarding that

Rudyo, yes this is indeed the company. I have just sent you an email from the company email account (chinapcbs.com).
Hope it arrived. As for the others, I am sorry that I cannot reply to your PMs but I have actually hit the 5 PM limit.

I will get in touch with you all as soon as possible. If rudyo takes the devices there are no more left, but still write me please - maybe we can make a few more. Never thought there would be so much interest.

in the advertisement does not put the company name
so I do not where to get that link
because this company does not put it in the description of the sale
I see more and more clear that it is a scam
that does not answer or the pm or here

As does the Avalon? and sends it where?

TOTAL SCAM!  Do not send any BTC to this scammer!

Proof to follow.

1) I asked for an email from him which first came from @inbox.com.

2) He said his name was Vong Lee and claimed his company was Guangzhou Sigma Technology Limited and the phone number and address matched, but those are easily taken from the website.

3) He couldn't or wouldn't send the original photo he used in the post. He wouldn't send any other photos of the product either or any of him at his company.
I wanted to extract the exif data (exif data can be edited, but most people don't know how or know about it)

4) His English was VERY good...almost TOO good.

5) He claimed he was in China, so I asked for an email from his company.  It is easy enough to trace email to a specific IP and server.

He sent one, and the only problem was that it was from deadfake.com.
Here is the header info from the email:

Delivered-To: (email-removed)@gmail.com
Received: by 10.58.207.11 with SMTP id ls11csp187276vec; Mon, 25 Nov 2013
 16:47:51 -0800 (PST)
X-Received: by 10.14.224.132 with SMTP id x4mr38610709eep.5.1385426870927;
 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:47:50 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <lee@chinapcbs.com>
Received: from zebra732.startdedicated.com (zebra732.startdedicated.com.
 [188.138.112.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id
 j47si7285905eeo.281.2013.11.25.16.47.49 for <xxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com>; Mon,
 25 Nov 2013 16:47:50 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 188.138.112.172 is neither permitted nor
 denied by best guess record for domain of lee@chinapcbs.com)
 client-ip=188.138.112.172;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com:
 188.138.112.172 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for
 domain of lee@chinapcbs.com) smtp.mail=lee@chinapcbs.com
Received: from zebra732 ([127.0.0.1]) by zebra732.startdedicated.com with
 Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.17514); Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:48:05 +0000
X-Mailer: DeadFake Mailer (http://deadfake.com)
X-Originating-Ip: 109.163.233.200
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: lee@chinapcbs.com
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com
Date: 26 Nov 2013 00:48:05 +0000
Subject: Its me, Lee
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Return-Path: lee@chinapcbs.com
Message-ID: <ZEBRA732lthpmRE3b6q000067a3@zebra732.startdedicated.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Nov 2013 00:48:05.0862 (UTC)
 FILETIME=[2B2F5860:01CEEA41]

Note the references to deadfake.com

Also if you put in the geo location for the originating IP 109.163.233.200 you get Bucharest Romania.

Nice try scammer!!!

Thank you very much !!

wwwoooooo man you have made a wonderful job investigating

Many tks for that info 

great catch rudyo.. also this just reeks scam.. so they managed to sell 490 devices and mysteriously left with just 10 devices? this just doesn't add up in my book...

I offered more than the asking price for all the units using escrow and got no reply.

Pretty unlikely this is legit.

as i said yesterday ... SCAMMER !!!