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This is sad, some poor sap is selling them for $4k.  It goes 700gh/s....hmm, let me see,  Antminer s3 or BFL Monarch ?  

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Butterfly-Labs-Monarch-700GH-s-Mining-Cards-IN-HAND-8-25-1st-shipped-NEW-/131278282960?pt=US_Virtual_Currency&hash=item1e90cba0d0

The reason why butterfly labs monarch is more expensive because its rare like an antic. But anyhow don't bother buying it unless it is for museum..

I'm surprised anything was delivered at all. ???

I think they named it after a butterfly as you must be like a butterfly watcher... you watch from far away but getting one to display in your house is hard :).

The thing i found most interesting is with all their ones they showed off at conferences when they had prototype they had setting on a nice platform making it look like a PCI-e card.  Now with new shield on this i don't see a single reason they spent so much time with PCI-e design.

it baffles me how anyone including BFL can slap that price tag on the device and advert it with a straight face.  have they not heard of Bitmain ? 

The problem is, customer don't do enough research before buying an asic. Even after BFL delay their product they still have a lot of new customers..

agreed, someone is not doing their homework.  i was a victim of BFL the 1st time around.  i placed an order when difficulty was 50M.  i got my jalapeno when difficulty was 1 BILLION.  huge difference.  BFL keeps doing people dirty.  how they are not getting investigated is beyond me.  everyone knows damn well they mine with all the preorders and ship when difficulty makes that HW obsolete.

I just checked and the price is down to $1800

Maybe the seller is a member of this forum and he just came across this thread? :D

Even at $1800, it is still overpriced heavily.