stating that all pre-order sales are final, they can certainly make the case in court that no refunds are due
Sounds like the BBB needs an education in Internet businesses. No sale has taken place, since nothing has been delivered. http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus02-business-guide-mail-and-telephone-order-merchandise-ruleExcuses like "your funds are being used" have no basis in regulations. When delays happen (and they happen a lot with BFL), "a statement that, if the customer chooses not to wait, the customer can cancel the order immediately and obtain a full and prompt refund;" and "You must cancel an order and provide a prompt refund when: the customer exercises any option to cancel before you ship the merchandise;" are regulations that BFL must abide by. |
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People will miss the days when you could run a 500W rig and mine 1 coin per day, those days are the sweet memory of bitcoin mining
For me, that was a couple weeks ago.  (well scaling up to 750 or whatever W my B2 Avalon was using) Today. Bitfury 400 GH/s, 300 watts, 2.3 btc per day. |
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Does anyone have any great ideas?
Tag the worst vendors as scammers and/or ban them. As long as you permit these crap vendors to run amuk, there is going to be non-stop well-justified hate towards them. Here's another example of BFL failing to meet deadlines and refusing refunds. Unfortunately considering the lack of positive news on peoples refunds, I have not gone down that route. My time is worth much more than calling BFL daily for nothing.
If some success actually happens in the community then my priorities will obviously change.
EDIT: No one should have to be in the position I am in right now.
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I was waiting on hearing that the FTC or AG had done anything for anyone so far considering the numbers of pissed off customers. That avenue has turned up a big nada currently.
Have you heard anyone have any success with a refund from BFL that was not related to paypal or CC?
7 months later and they're still months from being able to ship your order. I would be on the phone with them demanding a refund every single day, several times a day. |
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BitFury miners are shipping NOW as promised by Buzzdave with zero lies or other BS. KnC and others will hopefully follow this trend.
There is no need to support this sad joke of a company any longer. If we would stop sending them money for bullshit "Pre-orders" they would go away.
BitFury: 400 GH/s, 300 watts, $8000, shipping in under two months. BFL: 500 GH/s, 2600 watts, $22484, shipping in over two months. I can't imagine why anyone with a BFL minirig doesn't immediately cancel their order. BitFury is better in every way. |
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 with 8 days left One of the assembled K64s, that I am trying to get running.
A non-working board isn't very impressive. |
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Matt, the company spokesman explained, “We are in the final stages of signing a groundbreaking deal with a leading Bitcoin ASIC manufacturer."
Looking forward to the real press announcement that you actually have a deal signed. |
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Matt, the company spokesman explained, “We are in the final stages of signing a groundbreaking deal with a leading Bitcoin ASIC manufacturer. Leveraging their 28nm chip technology
This really hinges on what chip they are using. What do you mean exactly? I wouldn't care if they had monkeys with abacuses calculating the hashes, as long as they are providing me with $6/gh/s. I wouldn't care either if the farm was up and running. But it isn't. There are lots of 28nm chips in various stages. Which manufacturer they are using will greatly determine their ability to deliver on time. Has the chip taped-out or not? etc. |
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Matt, the company spokesman explained, “We are in the final stages of signing a groundbreaking deal with a leading Bitcoin ASIC manufacturer. Leveraging their 28nm chip technology
This really hinges on what chip they are using. |
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200BTC donation to compensate our previous work and to support us to continue
1, FPGA codes for the ASIC chips
2, FPGA codes for the controller
3, A python miner
You want a 200 BTC donation for some FPGA mining code??? |
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Good news. Chargeback protection is needed for customers of these manufacturers. |
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You need to hit that IP address with a browser to reconfigure your pool credentials. You will see 3 repeated sets of pool creds. Change all of these to your desired worker name on whatever pool you use. These three look like standard failover credentials you might see in miner config files. This is not the case here. Those are three stratum proxy processes running on your rPi. Make sure to change them all.
What pools are known to work? |
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Way back when wires worked, they were costing about $30. So I'll wait until I have a few more transfers and do them all for a single wire cost.
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You do realize that all this mining stuff has nothing to do with processing transactions, and that instead of running Bitcoin nodes that can process transactions practically all of these miners are just getting paid by pools to do outsourced sha256 calculations, and they never see transactions or even the blockchain at all, and as a result don't contribute much to improving Bitcoin's security— ... and that we're even in a worst state than we were a year ago, now kidnapping or hacking _two_ people is enough to freely perform transaction reversals...
Make it _three_. BTCGuild, 50BTC, and Slush make up over 50% of the network. A year ago it took the top 5 pools to reach 50%. And you don't need to kidnap them. Just use a $5 wrench.  |
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I had some USD on CampBX and some BTC on MtGox, so I thought I'd do my part at lowering the spread between CampBX and MtGox.
Bought 8.6 btc @ $116.00 on CampBX for $1003
Sold 8.6 btc @ $128.49 on MtGox for $1098
Profit: $96
Although now my USD is stuck in the black hole that is MtGox, but hey, I did my part!
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