Lol you really are an idiot. They have liquidated all the loans and replaced them with BCC tokens at a really crappy rate. They haven't paid anything but now worthless tokens that cost them nothing and you can now sell for nothing.

Yes.

I received my order and have had them running a couple of days now so thought I'd do a very quick review.

Firstly I receive the order on Monday 11th, so that made it about 9 days from order to having them in my hand, which is obviously so much better than ordering things from Bitmain. Order process was super easy and I could pay with paypal so it really was a pleasant change from using Bitmain (who now insist on BCH only and make you wait months while they use the machines themselves).

Set up was relatively simple, but I did have to google something. These were the first Avalon products I've used though so that's not that surprising and setting up a second lot would be pretty simple now I know the process.

The machines themselves have been running non stop for a couple of days now and I can see on the pool that the hashrate is very stable and exactly in the range advertised so everything good on that front. One thing to note is they are quite loud (as expected) and in particular the power supplies seem to be louder than bitmain ones (based on my L3's). I would possibly look into some alternative power supplies to keep noise to a minimum but not a huge issue for now and I'll be putting them in the loft soon anyway.

Luckily I read this thread before they arrived and someone pointed out that you needed power cables for both the power supplies and importantly for the raspberry pi controller. This wasn't clear originally but they've now put a note about this on the product listing, so that's fixed.

It' too early to make any comments about long term reliability of the machines, but in terms of dealing with Crypto Universe I'm very happy with the order and so will definitely be using them again in future. I'm looking forward to the A8's so I'll hopefully get an order in the coming pre order

Received tracking number email this morning. Looking forward to getting them up and running and I'll try to post some sort of review once that's the case.

I haven't got mine yet but I was going to give it another day or so before following up as they're probably quite busy.

Moving things within the EU does not incur additional customs duties. Switzerland is not in the EU but is in the European Free Trade Association.
If you have any doubts you should look on your government's tax website.
When you buy something from another country any import costs are your responsibility and the person you are buying from is unlikely to know all the tax laws for every other country so you should research it yourself.

I don't remember there being an option to choose during the order, it just added the shipping cost automatically for me.

They are still in stock on the website. Why wouldn't you check there if you want to buy?

I really like and believe in this philosophy so I hope you keep it up

Just wanted to mention that I placed an order earlier, and although it hasn't arrived yet (obviously) so can't comment on product quality yet, the order process itself was a very welcome change from the nightmare of ordering from Bitmain just after a release.

Bitconnect used to pay out 2%+ regularly btw. Isn't it funny how all these different groups seem to have invented an incredible trading bot independently of one another. Not suspicious at all and totally believable.

I know the time just fine thanks lol. There is no universal convention on that term, hence why I asked.

http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/faqs/is-midnight-12-am-or-12-pm-faq-time

"Given this ambiguity, the terms 12 a.m. and 12 p.m. should be avoided."

Was that not 25 minutes ago? They're still not available on the website.

Of course they do they literally said so at one of their events months ago. And also what do you think the ICO was? They sold BCC for BTC.
If you honestly think they don't hold any bitcoin you have no idea what you're talking about.

And what have they sold those BCC's to people for? (Hint: it's bitcoin)

I really think you should go and read my posts, I'm literally doing the opposite of what you seem to think.

EDIT: I just looked over some of longshort's posts and he also seems to be saying bitconnect is NOT legit. So what are you even talking about?

Have you actually read my posts? Not a single one of my posts is promoting bitconnect. If you look at my post history you will see me pointing out several times how it is not sustainable. You think bitconnect are paying me to point out the flaws in their system? lol

I agree with you, except for saying it's decentralised. Bitconnect is not decentralised and neither are those other scams you mention.
It doesn't have to be a government for it to be centralised, it just means either 1 entity or a small number of entities control it.

You do realise most of the things you quoted are not decentralised? Just because something has a cryptocurrency doesn't mean it's decentralised. Bitconnect is heavily centralised, control finance wasn't even a cryptocurrency, and the others are carbon copies of bitconnect.
A heavily pre-mined coin with 90% of the volume on their own exchange that they freeze if the price moves too far and tie up much of investors funds up in loans not in the investors control. That is not decentralised. It's actually brilliantly structured if it is a scam, though I suspect that was more out of luck than design.

There are many scammy ICOs but most of them are not decentralised as they start with a huge pre-mine and have few if any developers. You're absolutely right, it's a scammers paradise, but that's got little to do with decentralisation.

From Bitconnect's own calculator at time of writing:

Last 7 day average: 0.99%
Last 30 day average: 0.84%
Last 6 month average: 0.95%

And given that you can get a bonus of between 0.1% and 0.25% depending on loan size I'd say 1% is a pretty fair and easy to use estimate, which is why people are using it. Would you care to suggest a better estimate people can use?