You seem not to have understood what you just referred to.

It seems pretty clear that until they know which golden slots are actually paying within the seven day window they won't know which of them will actually still exist to be ahead of the ordered by actual payment non-golden folk like me and, maybe, one of these years, if you like what we all get, and still want some once we all got some, you...

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Bullpucky. When *I* pay matters a lot. The fact I already paid puts me ahead of any non-golden-500 person who didn't pay before I did, I thought they actually wrote that somewhere? Or was that baseless hearsay posted by some random troll?

-MarkM-

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Are you saying it doesn't matter how long I, as a non-first-500 person, dilly dally and blather before paying, because I somehow won't end up behind more and more non first 500 people who actually fork over the money?

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-MarkM-

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Did I miss a post where they explained they only get enough millimeters of a shared wafer each semester to produce 500 units in the fall, another 500 sometime in the winter, and maybe faster in the spring if they had been able to place enough pre-orders for wafer space by then or something?

-MarkM-

I think everyone is saying in your thread, you are a sore loser and you should start being responsible for your own actions and inactions.

And do read this carefully, you are the only and I mean only person complaining. Everyone else is okay with what they are doing. Everyone has disagreed with what you are saying.

Presuming things go as they planned, there won't be a huge time difference between the 1-500 orders and the rest.

It won't be the Avalon model with a large time gap between batches, and it won't be the bfl model of a few at a time, it should be a constant stream of large deliveries.

You could even say that the more pre-orders they get the better they can adapt their processes to deliver more and faster.

AHAHAHAH jesus OP is so burnt I can't believe it.

The greed, hypocrisy, jealousy, envy LOL. Money brings out the worst in men.

Basically all OP is saying is that "omg these guys are so unfair but if I'm in the first 500, then everything is all good".

No-one at all is forcing you to buy. You don't like what the situation is, then don't buy it. Having a teary about it just makes people laugh at you. Also you're stupid for not doing your research first. Reading a newsletter is nothing. Hell the same thing applies to BFL/Avalon/ASICminer. If you followed the forums on BFL/Avalon topics then you'd probably get way more detailed information than from the official newsletter itself due to the reps participating here.

Seriously. boo hoo mate

It's up to them, not me.

As I said, if you're not happy, don't order.

As I said before, you need a reality check very badly.

You're totally obsessed the early pre-orders. And it wasn't luck they got in. They did their homework.

They're not asking for your money only. You are not that special to them. Anyone can order, pay and take the risk.

So if KNC gets 10000 orders, and they will need 6 months to make that many. You are willing to wait while avalon, bfl, bitfury all are hashing away happily while you only get yours in 2014?

Extremely hypocritical from what you were saying earlier.

No they need funds to develop an entirely new 28nm ASIC which can cost in the hundreds of thousands.

Chip manufacturers want payment before they manufacture ironically.

But f**k it, they should have expected you as well!

And aside from 500 initial pre order guaranteed positions, there are no batches per say, you're just in line dependant on purchase position. You really have read nothing but their initial offering way back before ORSoC came on board.

Do you even know who ORSoC are?!

If you have order #1, will you be asking that? I don't think so.

Better place your order quick so you can be in the second batch!

you are right , you don't win..  you lose, look in the mirror and what you see??  someone who lost...  so sad..  

Stop saying that the 500 needs the rest of us to have a sweet deal. That does not make sense at all.

Everyone had a fair chance to getting into the first 500 orders.

You say you don't visit the forums but it is your responsibility if you wanted the product that bad to do your own due diligence.

You're honestly not going to use common sense are you.

It's up to you whether you are early in the queue or not. The more you wait, the later you are in the queue.

Because everyone that paid attention, queued and ordered first would have cold burgers!

We all invest the same amount and we all get mining machines regardless of what you are saying. If you are so worried about time-frame. Don't buy it. Simple.

Whether you get into the first 500 is up to you. Not KNC or anyone else.

They go by quantity that is how the shareholders win. They sell more, they profit more. How do you not know this?

So tell me when you go to McDonalds, and when you see a long line for buying food, do you also shout that it's unfair that there are people in front of you and that they get to eat first?