It will be posted on the news feed dated tomorrow (but posted two months from now)

Awww I've been missing Phinn and his special brand of wacky. Good to see ya back brother.

I'm not making excuses, but the 2008 date of graduation could have been with a second degree or even a masters. Considering you can complete a masters in that time frame. Not by any means a definite.

I forgot to take maps 101, my school didn't offer it. I did take geography, which was fairly easy. But if you are talking about cartography you can count me out.

Worst part about the Army was Land Nav. I think that was because the course was way overgrow and the markers were all jacked up. Throwing grenades was fun though.

The thing that really pisses me off is that now I want a philly cheese-steak and everywhere here is closed.

I am happy to see an update. Hopefully those who are close could take a look into this opportunity. It could give us some insight into what is going on. I think these are probably true statements, or at the very least would make sense as to why the shipping would be slow going.

I sent an e-mail to jim this morning asking to clarify some of the issues and just answer some questions. Though I didn't get an e-mail back this post from amt did answer a question or two I had with this post.

I did say


And I asked of them these questions:


hopefully my e-mail (with what I'm sure were a ton of your own) prompted some form of communication.

If I were closer to PA I'd be there my self offering to work the phones since my skills are in customer service.

By that  I mean the newest timeline they posted here, and as I said that is for my order, your milage may vary.

Hey say they will be ready for shipping from march 18th so at least it matches some with the revised amt timeline. At least for my miner I knew I was supposed to be getting mine end of march. so We'll see.

I never did get a confirmation from IMET if they were one of AMT's pcb manufacturers, but I'll take the geotagged picture as confirmation.

I did get a lovely response to an email I sent today.

Hello,

Order #1432 here aka **** Shaffer. I was just wondering if there were any updates on production of the miners. I did see a e-mail supposedly from one of your accounting people that there are still parts of the miner that are not yet invented. Is this the case? If so is there a revised timeline on the orders as I'm anticipating shipment no later than march 31st which your website still advertises.

If delays are going to occur will we be compensated with a 2.4 the miner if ROI is not attainable with the 1.2th units as per your Miner Protection Plan?

If you have indeed shipped units what order number have you shipped through. Any information you have would be valuable. If you were to update your news section with each lot of miners shipped it, it would help ease worry about your ability to get the miners assembled. Currently many people think you are scamming but, I'm not of them. A little  information in good faith would go a long way towards easing fears. I know you have everyone and their brother pulled for miner assembly, but if you could have someone, anyone, perhaps someone with no arms incapable of assembling the miners manning the phone it would be appreciated.

I've left multiple legitimate messages on the phone each time with the voicemail insuring me of a prompt response within 24 hours.


Jim's response:

Curt,

Production is running smoothly and we are shipping. We have yet to find the time for updates and forum is just a world of lies. Everything is fine and your is on track.

All the best
jim




So incase you were wondering we are a WORLD OF LIES. And though there are those of us on either side of the debate we are all seemed to be lumped together as liars.

So stop lying to me guys, everything is running smoothly and the ARE shipping.

So still no word?

I called their fax line to see if I'd get the modem sound, but the fax number is no longer valid. Though to be fair I never called it so it may never have been valid. I wonder what would happen if we showed up, with our paid invoices in hand, only instead of showing up by ourselves we showed of with some of philadelphia's finest accompanying us? I dropped 5K+ on the miner it's no thing for me to drop a couple hundred for a plane ride.

Maybe we could have an AMT customer appreciation gathering outside their office. Phin could hold one outside the mason lodge if he wants though.

We could build a bonfire and make sure we bring torches to light it, and pitch forks.... the throw more hay on the fire.

And if nothing else I get a genuine philly cheese steak while I'm in town.

He heard it through the grapevine.

Damn it now I want raisins.

Have you faxed them yet?

Can you fax them a copy of your complaint?

So if we don't see AMT miners hit, in what the next one or two weeks, we know they really screwed the pooch?

I for one welcome our chinese knock off overlords.

Enough for one machine they will paint it gold and add angels to it. It will hash at 1 PH and puts off so much heat you have to carry miner by the poles it's mounted on. It will be powered by the QI wireless standard.
If you attempt to open it for repairs it will melt the face of you and your Nazi friends. 

Maybe we should just start sending them Faxes.

Has any one resorted to that yet?

Piles of papers would be far more annoying then e-mails they don't have to check.

Hell they probably have the faxes going straight to the computer anyway.

I was considering applying for the TSA, but then realized I wouldn't be able to stand the stupidity.

Perhaps I'll aim for another governmental agency, see if any my my military experience can get me a job.

SO HIGH IT DOESN'T EXIST, you must be the Worshipful Worshipful Master Master mason , know throughout all halls

That just depends what degree mason you are.

1/3 of businesses don't survive the first year. At 5 years only 1/3 of the original businesses are left standing. Something tells me there is going to be quite a bit of turnover in an office space, I've seen similar things at home. A company is going and looks like everything is going great then boom out of business. Sadly it happened to a few of my favorite restaurants.

Picking one building you associate with a company and then tracking the businesses in that building proves nothing. When we don't bother to actually think how common something is (like a business going under) mere coincidences start to look like they add up to something that isn't really happening.

I wonder how many professional buildings have opened, filled their offices with tenets and never had a single one leave, due to business going under or need for expansion, or being bought out. my guess is not many.

I know you've been waiting since the 14th of november, but if you follow bitmine's news section you'll see the chips weren't finished on time so nov 14th never would have happened. No 1.2 th miner could possibly ship any earlier than january 30th. And it would likely be a bit after for AMT if they are using bitmine's board.

Even then bitmine didn't claim t was shipping until the week of the 12th of february.

So if AMT got their chips 2 days after bitmine which seems to be the case from their post and the date via the EFIX . They could have started shipping at the earliest the 15th of Feb if they didn't run into any problems at all along the way. Now if they are using bitmine's design that was released to the public on feb 12th then AMT would have to order the boards and wait for production before they could have started assembly. Which realistically put them in the time frame we are running right now.

I'm not sure how many orders your pal toots is tracking but it seems to be a small fraction of the orders, so the only way we'll hear about it is if one of us receives it and then comes here to post about it.

I know that isn't going to be my first concern if I receive my miner. I'm going to set it up, then monitor it and make sure everything is running smoothly then maybe I'll get back here in a day or two depending on work to up date.

I guess what I'm really most surprised by is how much ethnicity has played a role in any of this. Either in the for or against camp.

I'm not sure the break down of his post were warranted or necessary.

I'm going to laugh though if the site reads that march shipping is available come april.