I think that's the idea. It will cost more than the cost of the chips to have them assembled unless you can do it yourself. 1,000 chips sent to Burnin costs about $6500 plus shipping to assemble. 

Ahh, I see ... I will edit the first post to only include a quote from the other thread and let people make up their own mind.

OP, we're at about 10 days  Is the end in sight?

Can someone explain why they are still using a FPGA to simulate their ASIC chip? How can they possibly deliver final units starting next month when they don't have a chip yet? (I could not find pictures of a chip, so I assume it is still in production until they post pics.) I am thinking late October or early November is more realistic assuming all goes well. The other big question is if they can produce the number of units already ordered for it to be worth buying one now from their site. This has been a big problem with BFL, Avalon, and maybe Bitfury resellers very soon. So, I don't know why it would be any different with KNC. Maybe it won't be a problem if KNC does not mine with customer's hardware once it is produced. I believe this is the real delay from BLF and Avalon.

That's my two cents.

Best of luck with the sale. If your other sale falls through, I'm a buyer at 44BTC with John K. escrow and I'll cover shipping.

How exactly is someone going to make $3,250 in the month of August?

I like the idea of someone selling an Avalon that wants a ROI to still be possible at current exchange rates. The only problem is we cannot go back in time to the beginning of August. Your calculations are based on mining from August 1st onwards.

Here is a more accurate calculation (with lower estimated difficulty increase),

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Here is what you need to sell at to offer someone the possibility to break even,

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Pidobir won't transfer ownership? I think transfer of ownership should be enough. I mean if Metabank never delivers or pidobir doesn't ship, it is the risk that you are selling right? Otherwise, it does make sense to wait for it to arrive then sell it.

Any chance runners up might get to buy a unit? 

updating bid to 2 x 15BTC with John K escrow or verification to prove your account was not hacked (this happened to me before).

I was referring to an earlier auction but if you are willing to go 36BTC, I'm out at 35BTC. $4k USD is my max.

I wish I had bid 35BTC 3 days ago in your last auction, the exchange price is really high now.  Still watching and waiting to see if the exchange rate drops enough for me to place another bid ... 

There is one for sale unassembled from BlackArrow http://www.cardreaderfactory.com/shop/power-distribution-unit.html. Otherwise, I would try contacting Bitmine.ch on ordering fully assembled replacement parts.

Please explain. No US bidders or just not me (or RoboCoder)?

I'm in for 1 @ 30BTC (plus additional cost for USA shipping or being hosted by pidobir). 

1 @ 15BTC with John K. escrow - offer expires when we reach the next difficulty .

I'd go 35BTC for the Avalon, but the 10xK16 boards are worth less than what you paid for them (to me, only 8BTC). So, 43BTC for all with USA shipping on the Avalon and John K. Escrow.

Hopefully, you can find a better offer but if you need the coins let me know.

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  I'm done with vaporware companies with pretty websites. Keep it to the basics is fine with me. Although, a terms and conditions of the group buy might be a good idea to add to the website to disclose all risks, etc. in case of a paypal dispute in the future if something goes wrong or is delayed.

If we ordered one board early on and added more as this group buy develops, can all of the boards be shipped together at the original position in the order queue? Or, do you think all orders will ship fairly quickly, say within a week, regardless of when of the order was placed? Thanks.

I'm talking about pre-orders for October! They used to be listed on the site for anyone to buy and now they are no longer available to PRE-order. One real of chips does not constitute a 'large order' anyway. This is a reasonable question, unless Barntech has some other arrangement made.