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whats up with the miner sales?

Bitmain sold out, next shipping 28th, but old price and not opened orders
Avalon Clones not beeing sold anymore, except by Scammers

only the 5-chip Gridseeds are instock or near delivery now

You're mistaken. Antminers are ONLY sold as in hand hardware, and are made in batches. They are the premier hardware at the moment so demand has been astronomical.
The last batch of Avalon2 chips were sold, so the only clones are the current ones in the pipeline.

Plenty of other companies are delivering/about to.

yes but those were preorders

just 1-2 weeks ago you could always buy near-instock Ants or Avalons

Go back 3 months ago and you couldn't.
Go back 9 months ago and the ONLY way to buy hardware was from another member.

Consider yourself spoilt that you only have to wait <2 weeks for huge amounts of hash rate.

I think that actually they already sold out the 28th batch.

they reopened sales on 14th with shipping for 18th and sold out quick
found no info that 28th batch was ever opened. price for +2 weeks is ridicolous tough

There was a sale on the 14th - Sold out in 1 second (about 15 - 20 machines)
Then one on the 15th - Sold out in about 5 seconds (about 15-20 machines)
Then one on the 16th (Shipping on the 28th) - Sold out in 12 hours. (500+ machines)

are these confirmed numbers or an estimate?
500+ units sounds like they cleared out old stock + hosted units and plan something new

but 200GH at 1,45BTC received in march is a crazy game, cant believe anyone bought this

AFAIK "hosted" units are owned by customers, so it wouldn't make sense that they were re-sold to other people.

I agree with your sentiments regarding the 1.45BTC for current stock though.

Why is that so? It makes only a lousy 0,00725BTC / GHs so it's not that expensive. And mining might not be the only purpose to buy these babies. ^^

Cheers. 8)

the hosting plans were all "xy BTC for 3 months" as i remember.
so i think of miners whose users dont extending their contracts

because, even at eBay you wont get more than 1200€ for them. NOW
and you usualy get >30% profit by selling there otherwise its a bad deal
these units make their 1.5 BTC back if started today, but less than 1 delivered if in march

Hey, just think about the Difficulty Xer0, no new miners means no big Difficulty rise  :)

you cant order new big miners now, but the preordered ones will flood the network soon :|

Hashfast, Cointerra, Bitmine, Black Arrow, AMT all targeted Feb-Mar ... boom!

Now you are just trying to ruin my day aren't you  ;D

dont take it too serious, im known for beeing pessimistic ;D

No BlackArrow till May,one down....next!!!!!!!!!!!   :D

Cointerra is about to ship a ASSLOAD of 1-2TH miners and KABOOM goes difficulty

This style of quote will remain to be repeated ad infinitum nauseum :P 

Remember October and how it was totally stupid to be preordering a KNC jupiter lol.

Selling =/= Delivering

i think i saving my money for antminer version 2 antdrone .

Silence before the storm is what the wife calls it when I have Mexican food for dinner

simple economics.. price of one antminer dropped to usd 900 due to lower btc prices. add electricity+manpower+raw materials+shipping and you're staring at thin margins. hence imho they're trying to compensate that by mining first and then selling.. when bitmain was selling them agressively about a month ago one antminer was about 1000+ usd so there was still a room for better margin...

When they have delivered their entire backlog and start selling from stock they can have a real impact on the network, whatever they are shipping now was already anticipated and counted into future estimates. 

LOL  ;D

Get some of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   :D ;D :D

http://videosift.com/video/South-Park-Chipotle-Away

var selling:Boolean = true;
var delivering:UknownVariable;

if(selling){
print("Business is GOOD!");
};
if(delivering){
print("Don't worry you will get your shit!");
};
if((selling) && (!delivering)){
print("YOU ARE FUCKED ONCE AGAIN!");

};