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OK,


I am aware I have not been around the forums too long but we are a hardware importer and retailer based in UK

You can find the thread about our website here

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=434858.0

UK Ltd company, my personal name and status as a director on there, physical address and as much info as I can give you to prove status as genuine.

I have an order for 200 Gridseed 5 chip miners placed and waiting to ship, these are placed wholesale direct with Gridseed and not through the diginforce website . All orders need to be placed via our website.

www.bitcoinminingmachines.co.uk

our address

2-4 Millyard
Wharfebank Business Centre
Otley
LS21 3JP

You can pay by Paypal or by BTC. We need orders placed by our website for accurate stock control and address storage.

We expect delivery to UK around the 27th February, on which date you are welcome to come and collect. Any member of the forum wants to come and visit us on site previous to arrival or payment they are welcome to, I am at pains to take every step I can to prove legitimacy, I have seen so many scams around here I understand people get nervous. that's why Paypal is accepted.

Refunds up until day of shipping from us to you are no problem.

Prices -
1-10 -- 165 GBP + shipping
10+ -- 145 GBP + shipping
Wiiboard - 70 GBP + shipping

We have a fixed amount of 200 available on this batch. Hopeful to order a 2nd batch shortly, once we can gauge interest in the first batch.

Please check our returns policy and process, which is in full accordance with UK Distance Selling Regulations

http://bitcoinminingmachines.co.uk//index.php?route=account/return/insert


Direct link to all Gridseed products on our site

http://bitcoinminingmachines.co.uk//index.php?route=product/category&path=65

Happy to answer any and all questions and take any steps needed to prove we are a legitimate company.

sounds good with PayPal at least... please update again when you have stock in hand(pic possibly)
best of luck OP

interesting! placed order #6 . but on your website you do not accept paypal? only coinbase btc or cash .. so i chose cash and wrote a comment...

3 shipping to doncaster

Sorry was just updating site. Re enabled in 5 mins. Refresh checkout in 10 for PayPal

PayPal back on

some questions remain open..

1. do the miners have the important CE logo to ensure they can pass customs?

2. no.. whats your name? why don't you have a phone number?

3. what's the name of your company? on the webseite we can read "INDIE GLOW LTD"

4. what does "LS21 3JP" tell me?

that obviously is not correct ^^

edit: the only companies i can find on companieshouse.gov.uk are:

Looks interesting. When do you expect to have the units in hand?

Why is there only 'pickup from store' as a shipping method?

Domain is registered as a private individual, with an invalid address:

Indie Glow limited is registered with companies house Scotland.  Registered office address is our formation agent. Trading address is as per website.

Dean hannan is me.  I am a director of indie glow. This can easily be checked by records on companies house Scotland

Well you've been around on the forums for a while. I think it looks legit, but you need to add a shipping option to the checkout process. I'm not driving all the way up to leeds to collect. :)

When do you expect to have these in stock? If I pay in BTC, will you refund the same amount in BTC if they're turned away by customs due to CE marks?

OK, apologies was in the car earlier. Will respond properly now


No at present the miners do not have CE logo. This is not mandatory for imports into UK. German customs do seize goods without CE marking, UK do not.

2. no.. whats your name? why don't you have a phone number?
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as per my other thread

My name is Dean Hannan and I am a director of this and other companies, you are welcome to check me out on the web, I will appear as a director of several companies, some of which are registered to the address above.

I don't have a phone number on there because I get sick of time wasting spam calls. If you want my number PM ne, you can have my personal mobile number and a landline no problem.


company name is Indie Glow ltd, registered with Companies House Scotland. the registered address is that of our formation agent Rapid formations

it is our Postcode, the equivalent of a US Zip Code

that obviously is not correct ^^[/quote]

This is a bit of a sticky point I admit. Whilst we had every intention of doing this we found that if we only offered stock for sale once here we end up having to sell everything on ebay because everyone else was selling their stock as soon as ordered from the manufacturer, it left us a massive disadvantage, when we thought it would be an advantage.


All I can say is, we offer Paypal for your protection, anyone from the forum is welcome to come visit us on site. We have a nice Italian restaurant on site, I will even take you out for some lunch and talk Bitcoin. I have put my own name as a director on here, you can check me out on the internet as a director of this and other companies.

Should be Royal Mail recorded or Special delivery or International Signed for at checkout, I will have a look and see why it isn't working.

Refund will be at the GBP price we received  from you. We can't account for BTC volatility because Gridseed only accept Fiat currency, if Gridseed accepted BTC we would be able to refund in the same.

Just checked, shipping option seemed to work fine for me? recorded delivery or special delivery.

This is what I see:

https://i.imgur.com/IAoilXT.png

where are you located?

This is what I see

http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt319/studio1one/Screenshot2014-02-16142214_zpscb79111e.png

Warwickshire. I tried clearing my cookies and trying again, but I'm still seeing the same (lack of) options. If it helps, I'm trying to order the 10-pack of gridseed miners.

As an aside, are you getting any of the control boards in?

i'm tring to get shipping cost to italy - Rome but still no option, only



 :-\

Out with the dogs. Will look when I get back in. Seems odd because I get the options when I go to checkout

OP, are you sure that UK does not require CE for electronics import from outside EU?

Thanks

It depends on the purpose of the import. I will send you some links later when I am home

Ok I think it is the estimate shipping button that is faulty.  If you go through checkout process you will get told shipping amount and given options before you get to payment. Don't have time to debug the estimate button right now but will have a look later.

I get the same (lack of) options there too.

unless i am mistaken, you are going to need the controller boards to run these...?

are the 10 pack not sold with all the accessories??

I think you can run them without, if you run them off a computer. But I would much prefer to have a board.

fair 'nuff.

is this legit?

pls post it public.


CE mark obligation resulting from EU Regulation 765/2008
Please illustrate why this should not apply for UK

If products are marked for internal use and testing purposes then they do not need to be CE marked to pass an import procedure. It is only at the point where products are put on the European market that the CE mark becomes a necessity. This is why it depends on the purpose marked for import whether the goods will pass through customs happily without CE marking.

The quote from the European safety directive is


The point where CE marking becomes legislatively necessary is when the product is put to market, not at point of import.

Try a different browser, I think it is something cached. We have had several orders this afternoon where shipping has been no problem from various parts of the world.

estimate shipping button fixed

http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt319/studio1one/Screenshot2014-02-16184932_zps6b79face.png

..and this is exactly what your are doing. I definitly wouldn't want to be in your shoes if a customer gets hurt or any kind of property damage. You are 100% responsible for that.

that's the point
Unfortunately, the EU is far too bureaucratic for BTC Hardware...

Can you ship to USA with tracking number? What's the expected ship date?

Shipping is not working again. Tried in both FireFox and Chrome and the only option is "Pickup From Store" :(

Quote from website "Each USB device will use 60w of power and mine Scrypt at 300K and SHA at 8G"

So it connects to a PC with USB, and requires an external power brick? Can you list suitable power bricks?

You, you need an external PSU that can supply 12V.

To OP:

Do we need that controller? What is it purpose?

Thanks!

YEs, expect around 27th Feb to ship to you.

as a 12V 5A device I am not overly concerened.

FFS

Really sorry. Nearly 9PM Sunday night, will look at it in the AM

yes, Shipping is broken. How much is 10x to germany?
Is VAT included or not?

Too late and too tired to look at the shipping module right now. Have had more orders with shipping included from UK EU and Canada so not sure what is going on. Will get it sorted in the morning though. Apologies for any inconvenience.

VAT is included and we can do Intracommunity VAT free transfers for EU VAT registered companies.

OP. why do we need that controller? I thought the gridseed device was USB.

Thanks

if we buy the 10 units. will we get everything with it. including the control hub , power supply ?

also will they have the Updated software?

also shipping to US option?  website is bugged. i also only see pick up in store option

Yeah, there was a bug in the shipping module. Now fixed as far as I can tell. Spent quite a while checking it and every country an d product I tried worked.

Controllers need to be bought seperately and are available on the Gridseed manufacturer page.

when you order from the manufacturer, they send 1 controller per 10 boards, don't they? I've looked at setting up a little farm of these for myself and even though they look OK, the hash speed isn't really fast enough for me.. it was my conclusion that i'd need at least 10 units to make any kind of return - evn then, the sha-side of them is only 80GH in total, which may pay for the electric at current difficulty levels. Less than 10 units, isn't going to cut the mustard, so they should be sold in batches of 10, with the controller board included. thoughts?

Gridseed DO NOT include control units and other accessories only the USB cell.

in that case, all the more reason not to buy. thanks.

Personally I am using them as a Scrypt only ASIC. 10 of them works out cheaper than 5 x R9 280 + MB + RAM + Chip + PSU + cooling. Considerably cheaper and uses considerably less power.

Do you use them already?

only a test unit, not in any quantity

temporarily disabling BTC payment to change from Coinbase to bitpay. Coinbase cart integration is rubbish and we are having to manually adjust order status at present on every BTC order. Should be no more than a few hours.

just wandering about the prices here

they seem very expensive

see here where the prices are more realistic


also has been confirmed to be legitimate by iluvpcs who has sold thousands of antminer u1's

see here


and you can see his trust is +5  (these proofs are just for people who have been scammed by avalonshenzen)[/size]


160 usd is in gbp  160/1.67  = £95.8 

even with vat this is £115  and the person arranging the us gb is also making a profit

its one thing for these prices on amazon but why here on the forums

it's a new product, first batch prices on new products are usually universal and not negotiable.

The priced from gridseed do not include shipping to UK from china . They will not ship international so we have bad to pay someone in China to arrange freight forward g plus international shipping costs.  Yes we are making a profit but it is a small profit and will barely cover minimum wage for the time to pack them up and ship them out. Remember we have had to shell out a lot of cash to order these

will they have the new firmware?  will it be double in speed?

as far as I am aware tat firmware belongs to asiaBTC not to gridseed. these will ship as gridseed stock items.

Out of office for most of the day to day so won't be very responsive to emails / messages. I will have skype up on my phone skype name studio1one

you can add me there if you need me and I should be able to respond.

Any idea when you will actually be receiving them? and is your initial order of 200 already sold?

any idea if new firmware can be updated to this ones? i'm pretty sure the firmware update will not only be exclusive to asiabtc's

also if i order for US. when can i expect them to arrive?

and lastly. Sorry to do this. but did anyone in UK check if this guy/ofice is legit?  anyone has ordered previous units from them?

We are expecting them back end of next week here with us. We will dispatch to customers same day they arrive with us.

Yes we have about 70 left on this batch now. We will be doing a 2nd batch but I want people to receive the first batch and to get some feedback on the goods and our service before doing batch 2.

 I can't answer on the firmware upgrade. I have never even seen it in operation. Just words on this forum.  I am a little sceptical about it. First gen of a new product and a reseller has double the speed of the manufacturer. .. I guess we will see.

No one has been and visited our offices or taken me up on the lunch offer I'm afraid. Of course it still stands, I'm quite surprised.  Quite a few people have spent quite a bit of money with us now on this forum but  no one has wanted to verify. Or have lunch with such a charming erudite chap as myself.

Order placed via website, looking forward to seeing it.

Thanks, will keep this thread updated with status of goods and always answer emails pretty quickly.

Hi!

So Tekno Trading Ltd are your company?
You are AARON or dean? had this company for 6years? been in london before moveing to Otley? i see it's a family company thats nice!
I trust you and i just made an order! THIS company looks legit

thxbye

Hi I ordered one of these through your website already with paypal, now I am trying to scrape all my BTC together to place a BTC order, would you be able to tell me how many open spots you have left for this batch
thanks

I am also interested in current stock levels for batch 1. Looking to get 2 units

please keep us updated. Seems like the OP is trying to run a fair business. but too many organised scams around here.

Well I ordered 10 and a controller board and it said everything processed fine using Bitcoin. But when i look in my Order history there is nothing showing. Please look into this asap.

Hi don't worry.  Once the transaction confirms on the network the coinbase api is meant to send the confirmation back to the cart so it completes. Unfortunately it's buggy as he'll so we are needing to do them by hand. As it's only 6 30  here I haven't had a chance to go through the ones from last night yet and update them.  Will do it soon

OK I got you, you are order 111. Still only 7AM. I will update your order when I am in the office.

Someone has also placed order 112. Whoever you are same applies, I will update you to complete when in the office.

We have about 50 left at present. We will be doing a second batch but not until  we have physically taken delivery from Gridseed  of the first batch.

All Coinbase order status now updated. If you have one not showing please send me PM

Ok I have placed an order. Any chance you can let me know the size of the power connector so that I can get some power cables ready?

Ordered 2 pcs, order number 120. However looking at paypal statement I see I paid to company called tekno trading ltd whose email info at leadingav.com is on expired domain, so I am wondering how can you accept payments there if you can't read mails send there. Hope this is not just another scam...
http://i59.tinypic.com/n6qmt.jpg

Thanks

Is it possible to pay for a set (maybe two) without VAT? We have an active VAT number for our company in CY so it should be possible to deliver without VAT :)

Hi. That is a secondary paypal email. Didn't realise it was even still registered.  Primary paypal email is my hotmail and is still receiving messages. Message me through Paypal and I will respond so you have our primary paypal email. 

As an aside we have had to temporarily disable paypal as they have put a limit on our account until we provide some invoices etc for our purchases.  All orders will still be delivered as usual and it will have no effect on existing orders. They have told us 48 to 72 hours to re enable the account after providing documentation.  So should be back up by sunday

Still not showing on my acct that i ordered the ten or the controller.  :(

Let's sum up some information - i also bought now and want to make sure we are safe..

we ordered at
DEAN MATTHEW HANNAN
Date Of Birth:Nov-1975
Country of Residence:ENGLAND
202-204, HIGH STREET
BOSTON SPA
WEST YORKSHIRE
LS23 6BT
http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/director/1021198/dean-hannan

since 2004 he is Director of
( sort of a restaurant )
40 40 45 LIMITED
202-204, HIGH STREET
BOSTON SPA
WEST YORKSHIRE
LS23 6BT
Capital: £1,000.00 ( on 16 Feb 2013 )
Company Registration No.: 05109810
Incorporation Date: 22 Apr 2004
http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/40-40-45

since 2007 he is Director of
TEKNO TRADING LIMITED
2-4 MILLYARD
WHARFEBANK BUSINESS CENTRE
OTLEY
LS21 3JP
Capital: £1,000.00 ( on 16 Feb 2013 )
Company Registration No.: 06433123
Incorporation Date: 21 Nov 2007
http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/tekno-trading

that is connected to the domain
leadingav.com
UK-based audio-visual technology supplier ( we sell emulation solutions for Nintendo DS like R4 revolution, dstt, edge cards, m3 real and other linker and supercards as well as PSP and wii )
Registered On   January 21, 2008
Expires On   January 21, 2014
Administrative Contact:
Hannan, Dean  Email Masking dean-hannan@hotmail.com
17 All Saints Court
Otley, yorkshire
LS21 1AX
07780698291
Fax: 01943467228

Companies without a conncted Person are:

BITCOIN MINING LTD
75 BELL GARDENS
HADDENHAM
ELY
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
UNITED KINGDOM
CB6 3TX
Company No. 08821313
Incorporation Date: 19 Dec 2013
http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk//compdetails
http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/bitcoin-mining-1

INDIEGLOW LIMITED
272 BATH STREET
GLASGOW
SCOTLAND
G2 4JR
Company No. SC465346
Incorporation Date: 6 Dec 2013
http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/indieglow
http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk//compdetails


seems legit :) video game supplier now makes in bitcoin..

If anyone still has concerns over our legitimacy I suggest a visit to our offices. The offer of a lunch and visit still stands. Alternatively try emailing. Sales@gridseed.com and asking if Dean hannan has placed an order. I can offer no more. I have given my real name offered visits told the companies i am a director of.  If I was here to rip anyone off I would be liable to being kneecapped as I would be easy to find

Is there a version of cgminer, bfgminer or sgminer to drive these if I wanted to run them without the controller card?

If you want to run without a Controller that's fine but you need to be running linux

I thought you could use Win32 to run these, that is what I was told here before I purchased one

From: dean_hannan@hotmail.com
To: louiemgallant@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Enquiry Louis
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:52:24 +0000

 
the controller board allows them to be a standalone miner. They can be run from a 32 bit PC for sure, can't guarantee 64bit at tje moment

That is a 32 bit PC on Linux not on win. Apologies if there was any confusion I (probably wrongly) assume scrypt miners are running linux not win

Are u telling me these will not run in Windows? Scrypt miners run in windows and linux, I asked the question before I placed the order if this would run under windows

i think we simply need one of these software.. https://github.com/gridseed
it's a modification of either cgminer or cpuminer..
both can be compiled under linux or under windows ( windows might be a little bit complicated: using MinGW )

we have to choose.. either cheap & fast product OR good documentation ^^

I am running two of these off a Win8 64bit PC without much trouble. I have read of problems with COM ports higher than 9 but a few will work fine. Use the Win 32bit drivers.

The problem here is that gridchip code me tat ion is not yet translated to English and conflicting info keeps coming up.  It seems there are cpu miner compilations in Linux windows 32 and 64 bit available bit gridseed themselves state only linux without a control box. These are brand new to market and only prerelease beta units are out in the wild at present.  No doubt with their popularity in the community a massive support network will be in place very quickly

i have another unrelated question to the operating system. I read in several places on this forum that there is a new firmware or something of that nature coming out that will boost the scrypt hashrate to 500Ks/s does anyone know if there is any truth to this??

just be patient... we are under the first ones in europe to test it :)

i'll just put this here;

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7216.msg5265251#msg5265251 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7216.msg5265251#msg5265251)

There is a lot of info about these units here -

https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=13314.0

Maybe Minepeon in a Raspberry?

I want one piece to Brazil. Can you ship soon?
Pm me please for the deposit detail, thanks!

Could you answer this one? Haven't seen a response yet  ::)

sorry Flep, yes you need to register as EU VAT free customer, send me your VAT and company reg details buy PM, we then approve your accoutn and you will see the VAT removed when you get to checkout.

OK,

I have been through and marked all completed BTC orders as complete.

If anyone who has paid by BTC still doesn't have a completed order showing in their accoun can they please contact me to let me know so I can investigate.

Hi there,

Just tried to order and was going to use paypal, but Coinbase(bitcoin) is the only option.

Am I missing something?

Cheers

Dave

Hi,

yeah you missed a post last page. Paypal temporarily disabled as they have put a limit on our account due to sudden increased activity. They are wanting some invoices and documentation from us before they will left the hold. It doesn't affect anyone who has already paid with paypal but at present we are unable to withdraw funds from our account so until they have lifted this we need to offer BTC or bank transfer only unfortunately. We are looking at adding a seperate credit / debit card option for people over the next day or so to enable people to purchase with confidence. Also happy to offer escrow via a trusted provider on this site

Hi

Ah yes - thanks for the clarification.  I'll pay with bitcoin a little later (I'll have to visit my secret bunker containing my bitcoin stash ;D ).  Just a small order for now, but if I'm happy with the technology and the service I suspect I may be placing larger orders in the future  :)

Cheers

Dave

OK, if you want to pay bitcoin then please confirm when done as we have to manually complete the order from Coinbase.

Maybe it's a good thing to put in the OP what you'll need to run it besides what you sell. I've copied this from one of the many gridseed threads:


As far as I can see that's slightly overdone, and when you want to mine without SHA256 you'll probably be done with just a powered USB hub instead of all the power supplies. The controller that you have on the site, it's recommended for 15. Is it possible to do 20 with it? Or is 15 the max?

I'd want to receive the package, connect with cables I bought ahead instead of "getting it on friday and only be able to run on monday evening because I had to find all the cables and stuff" ;)

Every minute delay will cost money now :D

I have two of these and they will not run with just a powered HUB. Even though the BTC mining is not working, CPUminer still wants to send power to the chips. So, you need the PSUs until (if) someone fixes this requirement.

Hi

All done. PM with confirmation number sent.

Cheers

Dave

Thanks, order status updated.

This batch is nearly gone now.

We will be doing another batch but not until we have received and shipped these to customers.

Can you verify how many you have left in this batch?

not until after the weekend now fully. Around 25-30. I am going to suspend sales until after the weekend and when we are in the office go through and do a full order reconciliation, tie all orders up against all payments and make sure there are no errors that have crept in. The coinbase integration is pretty poor with our cart and I don't want to oversell.

On Monday when back in office the first thing we will do is make sure that all orders tie up to all payments and there have been a couple of cancelations and refunds so we will make sure the cart has allocated stock correctly  against them too and then put stock back live again. There are probably no errors in there but with stock running low I don't want to run the risk.

Any plans to stock a LA3M, or LA6M?

at present we just want to get this buy out of the way and items delivered to customers and then we will take it forwards from there. We have some 1T miners from China we can get and a few other bits but we are focused on ensuring this goes smoothly and well before putting any more offers out there.

So Monday Morning there might be a chance to place an order for another 1 or 2?

I was waiting for the confirmation for the VAT number and would like to buy 10 or 20, depending on what's left. I'm curious to hear what stock will be left on monday :)

I can't order.... are you out of stock?

Stock will reopen for sale on Monday when I have reconciled all orders and payments against coinbase. According to my initial rec last night there are 32 left in stock when I check funds received against orders but the cart is showing slightly more in stock so I need to just make sure the cart tallies with funds and orders. Again this is just because the callback from coinbase to store is not great and I think some orders coinbase callback has not removed stock from cart. we have also refunded a couple of customers so it is also possible that that stock has not been added back into cart

Obviously we don't want to oversell so until I am back in office Monday I am halting all sales until we are 100% that all ties up. It is safe to say there are at least 30 left in stock though.

Dean, do you know if these will include any cables? Some on the forums have received them with a power cable and USB cable included.

Any ETA on ship out?

back end next week I hope. Hard to give an exact date. Gridseed don't ship internationally so they are shipping internally in China to my guy there, he is then forwarding htem on via DHL, who then forward to Hong Kong and they ship out to UK from there. Once in Hong Kong it is only a couple of days to get to our door. I will keep this thread informed of exact status of goods and put the DHL tracking live as soon as I get it from my guy over there. At the moment it is all waiting on Gridseed shipping. Shouldn't be more than a few days before they get them out of the door though.

I'll have 10 please if any left come Monday, I'm in the UK.

I would like to know this as well. Better to know sooner then later.

Nope, these will just be the miners themselves. I am getting together some power options shortly and shipping them in from China. There will be single power connectors and multiple connection switching power supplies. should be pretty cheap.

Good news for all in the buy, looks like Gridseed are shipping out today. They had the address for my agent in Shenzhen but not his name, so put a request in for the name to arrange dispatch

http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt319/studio1one/gridseed_zpseca3aa3d.jpg

I wanted to order the last 2 items but paypal doesnt work...

Do you know how many you have left yet?

tempted to put in an order for the 10 kit - sorry for the TL;DR but what else do I need to get going with these ?

We have 30 left. 2 available as packs of 10 and 10 available as singles.

I would like 10, please reserve. Is PayPal working on your website yet?

Can you put me down for x1 please

Rgds

Ratters

nope, we can't turn paypal back on until we have delivered the first batch of miners to customers as paypal have our account on temporary hold until we can prove delivery to customers.

It wouldnt be a bad thing if you kept a few in hand as there are bound to be a few duds amongst the batch.

nope, we can't turn paypal back on until we have delivered the first batch of miners to customers as paypal have our account on temporary hold until we can prove delivery to customers.
[/quote]

PAYPAL is the Devil's Work!

Excellent. What do you s'pose the turnaround will be? Are they shipped 1-2 days to you? Then You'll ship them out by end of week/early next?

Thanks!

Well because gridseed don't ship internationally they are going to my agent in Shenzhen who will be shipping to us via dhl. So i guess we will get dhl tracking weds / Thurs then arrival UK Fri / Mon.  We will dispatch all orders same day they arrive here and provide tracking to all customers as long as dhl arrive early enough for us to pack and send out same day. Best case scenario we dispatch Friday and most customers receive Monday. Some UK customers Saturday.  Worst case scenario we dispatch Monday and most customers receive around Wednesday

In fact scratch that.

I will arrange collection from dhl depot. That way we are guaranteed a good time of receipt and the ability to ship same day to customers

Question, for all those sold miners that are not in ten packs, they do not get a controller board, so in the end you should end up with a couple of extra controller boards. Would you be selling these individually??? If so I might be interested in one

excellent. hopefully a mac solution to running these things surfaces by then!

I'd really love to buy some of them, but I'm to receive a sufficient amount of btc only in 1 or 2 days (I was hoping for paypal, but thats not an option any more I realize..) Does the checkout process require immediate BTC transfer or can I order anyway?

yup you can purchase the boards from the gridseed page on our website.

it needs payment through coinbase straight up. Don't worry too much though, once this round is done I will be doing another. I just want to ensure that all these get out of the door and delivered before starting round 2.

Delivery next week sounds very good ! :)

so its time to think about power supply and software implementation.. i think we should do this in this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=482352.0

Hi,

How's the order? Has it reach DHL yet?


regards,

P.

Nope, not reached DHL yet, I have just fired a few messages over to China to get a status update.

OK, great news for all.
Goods are with my agent now awaiting DHL pick up. 29 pcs left for sale.

http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt319/studio1one/DSC_0035_zpse1431459.jpg

That are beautiful pictures  ;D

Any update on the VAT thing for my account? I was hoping to buy 30 with 2 controller boards. But 29 will do too :)

If I buy today, when will you ship them ?

sorry, will look at it now.

Friday / Monday. Depends how quick DHL are.

do you accept bitcoin ?

if you accept bitcoin i think that i'm going to buy from you immediately. I'm also have an European vat.

yes bitcoin accepted.

payed


transaction id: c3d5684d34d2233b1144f3a5759c6fe7e16d0dcde1f21c7a7ba96dabaf13e13e

got it thanks


Just to let everyone know, power accessory packs will be on site shortly

I have one question:


i have also ordered a controller board. What I have to buy ( cables, usb cables etc. ) for setting up 10 miners purchased from you ?

I will be uploading accessory packs to the website later today

Ah, the VAT is removed, thanks! How can I push my order through? Because the system says there is no stock!

18 left showing. 1 pack of 10 and 8 in singles.

Accessories now showing. These may arrive with us a couple of days behind the miners, still waiting supplier confirmation for the 2.5mm plug cables to go with the switching power supply. Will update as soon as I can.

£58.50 for a USB cable? :P They might need a small update ;)

 ???

showing as £1 for me

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5f0izk04q54rwnn/Screenshot%202014-02-26%2015.22.35.png :)

[edit]Order made and paid[/edit]

received thanks

http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt319/studio1one/Screenshot2014-02-26142536_zpsd9e03774.png

 ???  ???  ???

When logged in I get the higher prices. Might it have something to do with the VAT?

12V 30A switching DC power supply for up to 6 Gridseed miners

minimum quantity is 100?

DUH

thanks, that is the cart being a dick, fixed.

yes probably some kind of bug with your account status, I will look at it.

^more honest than gox  :D

ROFL. sorry, couldn't resist.

We still have your USB cables, they are just temporarily inaccessible. Don't worry though, you can still deposit funds to purchase more USB cables and we will enable withdrawals once we find them again.

quality!  :D
how can I send you thirty-eleven-trillion unicorns so I can trade them for usb cables please?

Please send to MT Gox for escrow.

rounding up my unicorns as we speak...

OK, this buy is now sold out.

We will be doing another one as soon as we have these out and delivered. Really want to show that these are out of the door and with customers before doing round 2 though.

Hopefully we will be able to offer better pricing and quicker delivery for orders of 10 and over next time.

We are negotiating with our agent in China to handle dispatch of orders of 10 and over directly to customers worldwide. This will cut down on both time, the import duties we have to pay here and also shipping costs, bringing the unit price down.

No firm or final prices yet though on this.


thanks to all who purchased from this first group buy and I will update the packages DHL tracking as soon as I have it in hand, then also update all buyers with their individual tracking when we send out from here.

congrats on selling out mate. best wishes,

R

Do we need any extra cables to connect the PSU to the miners?
How are the controller boards powered?

Thanks for keeping us updated. Looking forward to receiving my unit

I have purchased Gridseed Controller Board. Do it arrives with cable and psu or not ? Thanks :)

Hi,

if you have the large 12v 30A power supply you will need some 2.5mm x 5.5mm DC connectors on cables.

We have some on order but don't have an arrival date yet.

I had a hunt around and found these on ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-5mm-DC-Power-Plug-with-1-8-Metre-Cable-/120574471567?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Components_Supplies_ET&hash=item1c12cc6d8f

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-5x2-5mm-DC-Tip-Plug-connector-with-Cord-Cable-for-Asus-K52-/221376239680?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item338b0d5840

i am sure some sellers on here may already have some available too.

not as far as I can tell. Getting info out of Gridseed it hard at the best of times though.

It runs of 5V with a micro USB connector though so any phone charger will power it, except Apple of course.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UK-Stock-DC-12V-Universal-Regulated-Switching-Power-Supply-for-LED-Strip-CCTV-/161081134308

This one is one of the cheaper ones (well, within the EU) :)

Does anyone know which contact (from the 2.5mm x 5.5mm plug) should be (+) and which (-)? I guess
(+) should be on the inner contact, but there is no universal convention about that, right?

Careful, make you you choose the 360W 12V 30A version

(its not cheaper we are) !!!

I purchased a single unit from Beastlymac's group buy, and it came with power cable (5.5x2.5 one end, open wires other end), and a mini USB cable, not micro USB, so your standard mobile charger cable will not fit.

We're talking about the controller board, not the miner.

My mistake :)

Depends whether you take postage into account

whats the wii board for?

When I go to the website to purchase a 12v 5 amp power supply for the miner, it says they are only available in quantities of 100. Is this correct?

the rest are for backup. o_O

No. Thought I had fixed that. Will sort it out when in the office

And while you're at it, could you also look into the GBP 58,50 cables? I mean, I understand they have unicorn abilities, but still, slightly overpriced ;)

all fixed.

I use it for this:



http://gadgets.boingboing.net/filesroot/japan-wii-fit-box.jpg



sorry.. couldn't resist...


Use it to control the 10 GridSeed Miners and to have them hashing... It is the same as having them connect to a PC with the appropriate software.


regards,

P.

Oh, any update on the DHL to the UK? :)

If I order the power adapter, can you add it to my current order without too much additional shipping??

any news on how upgrade Firmware ? Links ? :) Is the same Firmware of asiabtc ?

What have you ordered and where are you based?

No news I am aware of, there are a few posts about it in the mining support forum though

so if i want to buy 10 of those i need this conrtoller or not ? i have usb hub

Order #16.

will check it out when back in the office for you

You didn't read what i wrote right? YOu only need a controller if you don't have a PC to connect them to... This controller is a, basically, linux box with software to control  the hasher without the need to connect anything more other than the Internet itself.

regards,

P.

So is the shipment still in Hong Kong or has DHL collected it already?

thanx guys. so is it possible to still buy it or not really? i mean the website still has it.

To my fellow US buyers,

Will this power supply suffice? Just want to make sure http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-Volt-5-Amp-12V-5A-DC-AC-Adapter-Charger-Power-Supply-Cord-LCD-Monitor-New-/271042224844?pt=Laptop_Adapters_Chargers&hash=item3f1b6022cc

Regards.

Any update?  Eagerly awaiting shipment!

Yup, that will be fine.

Update,

goods are with UPS not DHL. I will update the thread with tracking numbers later today

Website should be showing 0 stock. I am not in the office for another hour but will have a look. We are definitely sold out at this time.

thanks :)

HUm... We are looking at Monday-Tuesday the best? (to get to the Uk I mean...)

regards,

P.

Monday

When are you getting more in stock?

next week. Want to get this one done and sold then will organise another.

news on tracking numbers  :)

Still waiting for it from China.

I would understand if the miners already bought this week will be shipped from England or from China :)

They will be shipped from England. The whole shipment is on the way to us and should be here Monday, then we will distribute from here then.

Just got the UPS tracking number from China

1Z8837110460470497

http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track

goods are awaiting collection at freight forwarders warehouse in HK

They will be picked up tomorrow and shipped over the weekend to be here Monday.

Tracking now live on UPS as per post above, scheduled delivery date is Monday  8)

Coohool! So coming week we'll probably all be able to start hashing away :D

Nice!!!!... What shipping company will you use to ship to customers???

regards,

P.

P.S. - Another thing -  after you clear this one when do you think you'll get a new shipment?

hi guy,
i'm still waiting for fixing our account about VAT on bitcoinminingmachines.com
tnx

sorry will look at it today for you


All Gridseeds are on the van for delivery today and we will process and send them out. Hopefully should be able to update everyones tracking today, worst case tomorrow.

Will be ordering again today / tomorrow. I would expect us to be able to ship to customers early / mid next week. Will run things slightly different this time to enable cheaper pricing. I have negotiated with my Chinese agent who receives the goods to ship directly from China to international customers, this will allow me to cut prices quite a bit as I will avoid import costs at this end and cut a layer of shipping out.

I will be starting a round 2 thread as soon as this lot are out of the door.

This means that we will be paying for Import Duty taxes correct? For me this is not a good option as customs here take up to a 1 month to clear products.

Nevertheless state your price and conditions when you have them :-)


regards,

P.

Well, you always have to pay that anyway, if you are in EU and you prefer we can ship from UK to you.

Woohoo the package has arrived!  ::)

Email notification FTW!

yup busy unpacking and organising orders now

remembers my cables :D

OK so the good news is we have packed up most of the orders here and got them ready already.

The bad news is ...

Gridseed forgot to include the controller boards. They are getting back to me tomorrow, I am hoping we can get a quick easy resolution and get them to send the controller boards on directly to everyone so as not to cause any delays but I won't have an answer from them as to a solution until tomorrow.

Massive apologies to all I am seriously vexed about this, leave it with me until tomorrow and I will get a resolution to it. I will email all customers directly too about it.

Direct delivery of the controllers would be the best yeah. It's more profitable to hook up a raspberry or a PC instead of waiting a week for the controllers ;)

Your website still says out of stock, was this 200 order already all pre-sold or can I make an order today?

all presold I'm afraid

Really sorry about this, they are closed now but will arrange something tomorrow and let everyone know whats happening.

+1 ! Is it possible to have controller board this week ?

certainly hope so but can't guarantee it until I get an answer from Gridseed in the morning.

Yeah but I am Vat exempt... I can try to receive 1 or 2 just to test it out...


regards,

P.

BTW I receive an e-mail stating that my order has been shipped. How does one see the tracking numbers?

You will be emailed it later, we are in the middle of the shipping process right now, once complete we will update tracking numbers.

Thanks for the tracking number. Are these being collected today or tomorrow?

I don't yet have tracking number :(

.

exercise some patience. You'll have a few days of clicking refresh after refresh on the shipping site.

+1

I asked for it and they said they would e-mail me. I am waiting... The e-mail shipping isnt' all done at the same instant!!! imagine you guys have the latest order... You will be the last to get the e-mail!

Chill out... Listen to some Drum & bass, have a Drink... (don't drive afterwards!) Hell, have 2 drinks!

regards,

P.

Guys, please bear with us we have been having a really busy day today, priority is in packing ans shipping everyones orders right now. 200 in, broken up into a lot of small orders, customs forms filled out, packing, bookign couriers etc etc etc as well as trying to deal with Gridseeds failure to send us the controller boards blah blah blah. I promise you we will update everyones tracking as soon as it becomes possible.

And listen to PMB, go stick on Ed Rush and Opticals Wormhole and pour some rum. I will be doing later when all finished.

Excellent advice.

any news ?  :)

Russia invaded Ukraine.

Given how packing was still taking place at 7pm last night, I suspect they'll be going out today.

Are refunds an option on the controller boards? I ordered two, but I now have spare raspberry pi's that would do the job just fine.

Yup no problem, just PM me your order number.

emails coming out now to all customers with tracking numbers. They will come to the email address registered on our website.

Its a mix, not all orders got out before courier a lot did. Everyone has tracking number, if the one you are emailed isn't working yet then it means it will start working later today.

A technical information :)


-I have purchased 2 amp 10 usb 2.0 ports hub.  Is it ok for controlling 10 gridseed (5 chips each) miners ? thanks

should be fine, PM me your order number and I will pass on your tracking.

check PM :)

Ok so tracking has been up and emailed to everyone except EU orders of 10 or more (apart from Cyprus)

These missed collection yesterday, as courier came too early. I have the tracking number for all these but they don't work and won't until about 5PM UK time, maybe a little earlier. I can send them out but I would rather wait until they are working.

Edit so say, all EU orders of 10 or more are on 2 day service from UK so will be delivered on Thursday.

Well, they say they are sorry, great. They can ship controller boards on Thursday, I am talking to them about sending them on direct to customers.

Again I can only aoplogise to everyone, if you want to cancel and refund the controller board then let me know, you may be able to source quicker. I am going to mail around myself now and see if anyone can resolve this quicker than Gridseed for me.

http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt319/studio1one/gridseedsorry_zpsbb219a33.jpg

Yup, cancelling them would be easier. It's already possible to get a decent working version on a Raspberry Pi so I'd rather experiment with that :)

Plus I'm getting an extra controller from another order of gridseeds.

I confirm my order of Gridseed Controller Board

no problem, how would you like your refund?

Bank if that's ok with you :) Got a local UK bank account if that's cheaper for you ;)

yup fine. Just PM me. Sent you a PM too

Royal Mail just delivered my order, still waiting for the email with tracking info though (Must be the first time snail mail beat email  :P)

It is worth noting that opposite the order I received from BeastlyMac's group buy, this order didn't include power and usb cables for the individual units, luckily I had spares and I am happily hashing.

Hi,

yeah we were so knackered last night that we left without updating tracking. When we got in this morning we figured it was pointless sending out tracking to special delivery UK customers


As per the posts in here all accessories are available as seperate purchases on our website.

pm for you :)

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I thought "round 2" would be under way by now as GridSeeds have been arriving... but the website still shows them as Out Of Stock - have I missed the boat again? Will there be a round 3??

Not open yet

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=500002.0

I hope you could fix this before the next batch :)

Has Anyone in Europe received his gridseed miner  ? :)

Nope, All UK have been delivered and all US / EU will be delivered tomorrow.

Except Cyprus, which will be monday since it's a far away shithole! ;) (looking forward to it though)

Mine is in the local Courrier and should be delivered tomorrow.

regards,

P.

Really?

Monday?

I booked it on a 48 hour service.

I'm still waiting for a decent sewerage system here. Not expecting much ;)

I'll pm you the url to keep my personal detail private ;)

Hi,

Very happy with shipping time - Received mine yesterday.  Not been able to play with it yet but may get the chance tomorrow.

Quick question - any news on the controllers?  Are they still being shipped from China on Thursday as expected?

Cheers

Dave

Somehow they've made it to Cyprus! WOOHOO! So now I'm waiting for the powerstuff to arrive ;)

There are a lot of posts and guides now on the forum for running these without the controller boards. If anyone wants a refund on the controllers just drop me a PM and let me know.

this guy has 48 running on a single Win7 64 bit machine, no controllers.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=502038.0

More than happy to refund any unwanted controllers so you all get mining quicker and cheaper.

Spoken to Gridseed today, no controllers until next week  >:(

At this stage, as they can easily be run from R Pi or PC without a controller I honestly feel it best if I refund all controllers to people. There are lots of posts and support around the forum for getting them running on R Pi or direct from a PC. Going to email all customers now and let you know the situation.

Again I can only apologise for this, it was totally and utterly out of our hands and a balls up by Gridseed, we didn't have any idea they hadn't included them until the shipment arrived short on Monday.

PM for you :) I Don't want a refund for my Gridseed Controller Board

On the van for delivery today :)

I'm waiting for delivery. I live in Europe :)

Already arrived. Now the power stuff I ordered through Ebay hasn't (nor is the tracking there working) so I'm heading to the local computer store to get some crap to have most of them running until it's complete;)

@studio1one any news for my shipment ? :)

Last track says arrived in destination country last night

When will it arrive to me ? :(

I hope today, it was 48 hour service.

arrived in germany!

I'm waiting...  :-[

Hi all,

Arrived near Spain! :-)

Another thing I have a blinking REd light once in a while, is it normal? What does it mean?

regards,

P.

is it possible for you check status of my order... my last status is "delivery depot" from yesterday night

yeah totally normal. they blink when hashing.

I think you just checked it. my guess it is at 'delivery depot'

patience is non existent.

Will check on it but I don't know what I can find out other than it is at the delivery depot.

Shameless plug for myself.

Remember folks. Round 2 now open

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=500002.0

PM for you :)

replied to you

Thank you !!!! All is perfect

:) :)


PM for you

Hey! Everything is working perfectly..

but.. can you provide a bill please? there was no in my package and you do not respond to emails.. as i paid via paypal this would be very usefull ( order #116 )

Sorry my friend, will email over.

Do you have any instock now in uk?

No, new stock late this week / start next week

Edit scratch that. We have 15 available now for next day shipping.

i an still waiting for a bill, please...

ah sorry, please pm your order number I will do it right now.