BEWARE of forum user LocalBitcoinsScript, he just stole BTC from me. I was talking to him on Skype chat and as soon as the BTC confirmed, he stopped replying. Then he immediately locked out all of his posts on the forum including the one below. If he ends up responding then I will update this post but for now this person appears to certainly be a scammer. BEWARE! Angry

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1656594.0

Yeah, I agree that I should have used an escrow. I was talking to him for a while on Skype, and decided to take a risk with $75 worth of BTC. He was advertising $50 per $1000 worth of AWS credits. Then he told me that he would give me two codes ($2000) worth for $75, and then I could confirm the first two worked. Then he said he would send me the third code for another $75.

I run a startup company and have a large AWS bill this month, so I was really hoping this was legit.

Do you know of any AWS code sellers that are not scammers?

I will post in the scam section as you suggested as well.

Thanks!

BEWARE of forum user LocalBitcoinsScript, he just stole BTC from me. I was talking to him on Skype chat and as soon as the BTC confirmed, he stopped replying. Then he immediately locked out all of his posts on the forum including the one below. If he ends up responding then I will update this post but for now this person appears to certainly be a scammer. BEWARE!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1656594.0

Please PM me or email nTek support so we can provide you with a download for the SD card image.

Hi Darin,

Please excuse the confusion happening here. We did however completely answer your question in the post made on page 18 of this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428831.msg8094832#msg8094832

The first miner is built to our specs with the chips purchased from Bitmine.ch in January. (more details already explained in above link) It is not the standard A1 clones, ;-)  It is our own A1 clone, except it is not a clone because these units were made with A1 chips purchased from Bitmine.ch   WHY IS ALL THAT Innosilicon and Bitmine stuff SOOOO UTTERLY confusing?

The miner in the second image is not what was sold as explained in the earlier post I referenced above for you. nTek sold the miners based on their specifications from January through March. The design in the second image with the nTek Computers logo was not shown until after those sales were completed. Hope that helps clear up any remaining confusion but feel free to ask more questions.

The design in the second image is may be turned into an open source hardware system called the nTek Modbox. Patent Pending parts will be labeled as such but we want to encourage the community to take the design to new levels on their own and see how the innovation grows. Adjustable brackets and fittings will be included to fit most boards on the market. As developers fit other boards to the system we can provide additionally sized brackets for new board fittings. The first Modboxes will ship with several extra adjustable brackets. nTek wants to provide a platform for developers and hope it will impact the mining hardware industry in a positive way. This is more fun for us and everyone else and also keeps the creative juices flowing. Most of our team at nTek are designers and artists so that is what we enjoy doing...designing amazing products.

We would like to host a competition to prove that our system can give other boards the ability to be over clocked further. Of course some closed source systems will not allow this kind of DIY spirit. With the nTek Modbox you will actually for first time be able to take the mining boards out of any miner that allows it remove everything except the PCB unit. Then attach it to the main heatsink and adapt liquid cooling across the entire top of the board. The liquid cooling like PC gaming mod boxes out there is a separate product. That product will be able to be used to also retrofit liquid cooling to some other miners without removing the Hash PCB's if there is room between the sandwiched together boards.

the nTek Modbox can also be used with GPU's to massively overclock them since it has liquid cooling. The photo you posted from our website is outdated simply because we are looking to keep this in beta mode for now until we can gauge the interest of the open source community. Liquid cooling has been developed for the nTek Modbox and many other design changes since we last showed photos of some of the prototypes in April. The design has changed a lot but we are too busy now to show photos or 3D computer designs of it all. Once the product is ready to ship then it will be posted to our web store that day and we are also talking to some resellers to setup channels through them.

Nice to finally be able to come out of stealth mode over here at nTek in Virginia and even talk about this. This is our plan now and it is our way of removing ourselves from the price wars going on right now between the giants of this industry. nTek Computers cannot compete with them to sell complete miners.

Some Virginia Tech students are pretty excited about the Modbox and are coming by to see some of it in action in our office next week. We are going to ask them if they can post some photos or something online so I will give a link here if they do.

Depending on the price of A1 chips and the market we can potentially sell 10-chip boards along with the kit. Our 10-chip board does hash but it simply got too uncompetitive on the market the nTek designed board using A1's since we paid the piper too much money for them back in January. Bitmine.ch is keeping their prices around $26/chip right now which is way too much considering the other prices on the market that are getting close to if not already below $1/GH/s

A1 chips are being sold for less than $15 per chip on the black market in China. This is the reason for "A1 Clones" for dirt cheap.

nTek Computers, Inc.

gallery2000, you might be a credit card scam artist, but you are definitely now a shill as well. Please stop wasting peoples' time with your ridiculous posts. Some months ago you purchased a miner from us, filed a chargeback and then asked for an update on the delivery after it you had been refunded in full. Maybe this was a mistake on your part but since everyone else on this forum uses the mentality "guilty until proven innocent" I guess we can as well? We were called scammers even before we had a chance to deliver on time. Customers bailed left and right from based on what people on this forum said; who had no idea what was going on. Please stop spreading misinformation gallery2000.

Yup, us neckbeards at nTek Computers love to take breaks and drink TONS of Redbull and have lightsaber battles in my parents driveway upstairs. Our CEO is going to kill us when he reads this later. HAHA We had too much redbull but then snuck into the parents liquid cabinet too. We are all minors and only in high school but soon our real neckbeards will grow in. Watch out BTC world!!! ROFL  ;D;D;D

Dude you fit the definition of a shill to the T

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill

sorry if you are not a shill working for BitMainTech but you are still very shilly. ;-)

You were not going to buy miners from us so why take this tread so far off topic?

This thread was started by someone who actually placed an order with us. It is simply to provide information about the orders being delivered and the compensation for those that did not get a refund.

Thank you for your mature response shill. ;-)

How is your neck beard trimming going in your mom's basement?  ROFL

Yeah we do not give an F anymore! we are writing this from the loony bin

We are totally insane because we are calling a shill, a shill....and a troll, a troll.

Sorry if we offended anyone else but it has been an especially difficult day of fighting trolls and goblins with our foam lightsabers. Our neckbeards have not even grown in yet but they will soon enough. We are obviously just a bunch of kids building miners in our parents basement in our underwear...trimming out neckbeards. WTFE!!!

shill:
noun
1.
an accomplice of a hawker, gambler, or swindler who acts as an enthusiastic customer to entice or encourage others.
verb
1.
act or work as a shill.

Troll:
In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4]

SHILL

Hello Xian01, and what happens with your S3's when they have issues and need to RMA'ed? The question is not if BitMainTech will replace your Antminer that has a hardware issue but it is more about logistics.

When you have hardware failures from overclocking, good luck with losing a lot of mining time when you have to wait for your S3 to be shipped back to China, inspected, and then a replacement unit to be shipped back to you. To/From mainland China and the USA + RMA process can easily take 2 weeks.

"Xian" as a handle really does make me think that you are a shill for Antminers in some way. Please stop taking our thread off topic. This thread was started by our customers and for customers only. We can start another thread that just focuses on our prices but it is off-topic for this thread. Hope you can understand and stop your shills here. Plenty of other much bigger competition to Antminer to shill than us. Heck, at this point we are much smaller than most resellers who do not even know how to check the voltages on an A1 chip to see if it is burnt out or not. The resellers can just ship more unstable "A1 clones" and or other dirt cheap Can't-miners though so what do they care.

All we said is that we provide better RMA service and support than others. We are not as cheap as them because we can deliver inside the USA much faster (added value) and we can replace any possible problem units much faster (add-value).

Again, go build your own miners if you think it is so easy! Would love to see you try and report back on this forum so I can waste your time complaining about stuff that is out of your control. We do not make A1 chips nor set the market prices. We do not control the value of BTC or the difficulty. nTek Computers is a small business and we are happy with just having a small amount of customers that are loyal and that we can provide amazing support to. Good luck communicating to China buddy. Or wait you are most likely in China so you have no clue what you are talking about anyways. OFF TOPIC!!!

Don't buy from us if you do not want to, but also please stop being an Antminer shill and saying your not. BECAUSE YOU OBVIOUSLY ARE!!! OFF TOPIC!! Please go away!

Thanks!!!

Thank you for the offer Xian01 but that is not a comparison of a miner that is equivalent in specs to what we are offering. The (40) A1 chips can be over clocked "Turbo mode". They are designed to go up to 1600GH/s.

If Antminer sells a miner that has the technical specifications to go all the way up to 1.6TH/s in one box then we will be happy to sell for $1 less than their offered price. I know this is a hard decision for people who are looking for the absolute best deal on the market....

What we offer that companies from China cannot, is an RMA service to replace your miner with another unit. You can even keep the first miner until you get the replacement one. Our A1 miners are guaranteed to mine rock solid BTC If not then file an RMA form with us and we will FedEx you another unit same business day. If your nTek miner has an issue with the hardware then nTek Computers will send you a replacement and you send us the defective unit back once you get delivery. This is a risk for us but it is one advantage that we can offer that others outside the USA simply cannot!

Two disclaimers with our RMA service to be as upfront as possible:

1. We require an escrow to be held by a third party for the BTC amount (based on current sale price). If you cannot do the escrow of BTC then we will ship your replacement miner the same business day the defective one is received.
2. This RMA Guarantee can only be applied to customers located in the continental United States. Outside the United States the standard RMA policy will be honored. Replacement unit sent out same business day the defective one is received to our Alexandria, VA location. GUARANTEED!!!

ROI Agreement is going to continue to be in place for new orders but our plan is to never have to use it again. In the case of "acts of god" such as a storm then we will honor the ROI Agreement and LMT (lost mining time) based on the agreement we released in April.

Feedback is much appreciated so we can refine our business to meet customers' needs. 

We are not in business to source Antminer products. Antminer has done a great job building a business that delivers to customers on time and at a very low price. That is exactly what the btc mining industry needs.

This also means that pushing the prices down further and further is going to cause home mining to go extinct by or before the end of 2014. This will happen now regardless. We are waiting patiently for industrial mining farms to completely take over because to be honest we would prefer to deal with businesses rather than consumers. Businesses do not commit credit card fraud and steal $10,000's, and customers who are companies have more of a long term mindset. Most of all they actually invest in their cold hard calculations and prediction of what Bitcoin will be worth from a collective investment into the Bitcoin industry as whole. In essence they are in it for the long haul and so are we.

Again, as we made clear yesterday our miners are not A1 clones. The A1 clones on the market are (32) A1 chips whereas ours are (40) or more per unit.

trazzam, sorry about that man. There are hackers trying to attack us as we speak. We are on the defensive right now out of a natural instinct to survive.

In May revuprender.com was hit repeatedly with DDOS attacks which has been linked directly to the digital currency world. Maybe this has all caused us to be too paranoid as a company. We apologize for snapping at you like that. Unfortunately that is how the Bitcointalk forum has become, "guilty until proven innocent!"

If your in the mid-Atlantic area we welcome you to stop by for a visit. Outside of these forums people can act freely, like civil people. nTek Computers has been very open with who we are and put our company and personal names on the line in hope that it can provide some trust. It is too easy for people to hide behind anonymity on here.

trazzam, are you a shill or a troll with 3 posts (newbie) status? OK! We will explain it again in more once paragraph. We hope there is no more confusion! We are taking care of our customers. It is more than fair so please stop the shilling

http://ntekcomputers.com/blogs/news/13576373-ntek-computers-new-updates-april-11th

According to the S3 prices listed here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514758.0

(3X) QTY.  Bitmain S3 units will run you $1,873.5. Then you have to purchase power supplies and also you have shipping cost and time to wait for the units to be shipped from China.

We are currently only selling units that we have in stock in the United States. Lost days for a week of time to ship from mainland China should also be accounted for. We are a registered company based in Alexandria, Virginia. Just across the potomac river from Washington, D.C.    Come and visit us please! ;-)

Yes we do! If someone wants to stop by and see them in person then we would really appreciate them verifying with everyone else so it can put doubts to rest. We can even show the other designs we have been working on.

The miners we have in hand right now are being sent out today and tomorrow to the last remaining orders for our first batch. At least 40 more units will be available soon. We stand behind our systems and offer a full support and RMA process.

Our current 1.2TH model miner that is available to ship from Alexandria, VA with 1-3 day FedEx ground shipping anywhere in the continental United States is a better deal by one buck 1.4TH/s $1999. We are going to start calling it the one buck chuck miner. For each new competitor that comes out with a product that is known to be stable, of good quality, and the same hashing specs; nTek Computers will price our miners that are of similar spec for one buck less:
http://ntekcomputers.com/blogs/news/13576373-ntek-computers-new-updates-april-11th

If any new orders are not delivered within 5 days or less than nTek Computers will pay the customer who ordered, the BTC each day after that should have been mined with the expected hash rate. [url](ROI Agreement)[/http://ntekcomputers.com/blogs/news/13576373-ntek-computers-new-updates-april-11th]

Our team is part of a reputable company that specializes in HPC computing. In 2013 RevUp Render www.revuprender.com started nTek Computers to sell hardware that we previously only used in our own cloud computing services.

For the last six months since nTek Computers became its own company, we have made every effort to do things different and bring the normal computer business to selling miners. As the founder of nTek Computers I must say that the Bitcoin industry has done nothing but try to stop us. There are some very shady characters here out there who will stop at nothing but to hold back innovation from this industry (bring on the shills / trolls). There are people with their own private farms hoarding most of the BTC now. Over the last 7 months we have been hacked, victimized by professional credit card scam artists, threatened, attacked, and much more; but we are still here.

All that really matters is what happens in the end in this situation. Most of our customers bailed out on us after we invested a lot of money into building a new kind of computer design. It is easy to see now that we took on the risk that others did not want or could not handle by accepting credit cards for orders. We came up with a compensation plan but the delays caused almost all of the original customers to go the refund route. Regardless we have pushed forward and delivered miners that meet every specification from the ntekcomputers.com product page for the 1.2TH/s A1 Coincraft based miner back in Q1 of 2014. There was a generic image of what our miner was to look like and we pretty close.

Miners have been delivered and the last ones will be delivered to the very few remaining customers. We are not going anywhere, we are here to stay so all you shills, trolls, and scammers can stop wasting your time. We have gained more battle scars than others have in this industry in just 6 months. We were bruised, beaten and found the willpower to get back up and keep on fighting for what we believe in. Designing and building amazing NEW products!

So the next question is not if we delivered on the orders that were still left that did not get refunded. The question is about the miners shown in the photos by our customers. Just to clear up confusion, YES those are miners made in China in the photos shown by two nTek Computers customers. How are those differently designed than the other A1 miners from China? Well, they are not but they do have some IMPORTANT KEY DIFFERENCES. The miners we are delivering are using a different DC/DC converter PCB component. This design is stable and it is also different in other ways. The standard "A1 clones" from China are now mostly using (32) A1 chips. Our miners shown are using (40) A1 chips in order to meet the specs on the product page in Q1 2014. It would be very difficult for us to just be reselling A1 clones simply because the A1 miners being sold directly from China are 1TH now. They are not 1.2TH.

Now to move onto the next topic. What happened to the unique nTek Computers "Patent Pending" cooling system and case? There is a very simple explanation for that. When most of our customers started to get refunds we had no choice but to stop the current developments and move towards delivering miners that "simply meet the specs." Sadly there is no better explanation than that and nTek Computers has decided to stop any speculation or accusations of scams any further here and now! Yes, what is being shown in the last couple of pages of this thread are similar to the other A1 miners from China. Yes they were made in China. However, these miners were in fact produced using those original A1 chips purchased from Bitmine for a huge amount of $$$BTCBTCBTC$$$ back in January. Yeah, we got totally F'ed on that deal!!!

The simple fact is that the very last nTek Computers 1.2TH (1st batch) miner was sold in the beginning of March. We legally could not disclose the designs for the special nTek chassis and cooling system that is under "Patent Pending" status until after the application was issued to the USTPO. The last sale in March occurred before the provisional patent application was filed. The laws with patents clearly make any prior public disclosure forbidden until after the filing date. Hope that makes clear sense to everyone but feel free to ask any questions. In simple terms, we delivered what was purchased. We did not show the new nTek designed chassis and cooling system until later. It also turned out that the 40 A1 chips do not provide enough heat to require a more advanced cooling system. We are still working to test (80) or more A1 chips inside our single 4U standard sized case.

nTek Computers has not given up...We have been working on some new designs using the base of the special chassis and cooling system and new ASIC's. It would be much easier for us to fold in and go back to only marketing to the HPC computing industries but we love BTC and mining. RevUp Render got involved with GPU clusters for HPC in the beginning in 2008 through confidential R+D even before they were known publicly as a company. GPU servers were not even well known as proven technology then. Mining on GPU's appeared a couple of years later to the masses. RevUp has been involved in mining themselves for a while to say the least. While nTek and RevUp have become separate companies legally for liability reason we still all work together in the same building.

Our plans going forward:
new product #1: nTek miner with our chassis and cooling system (TBA) we are doing R+D on new chips to make it competitive at a higher hash rate and price. Since we want to avoid getting more battle scars we will not depend on others who make promises to deliver on new technology (not naming any names) but rather only announce new products that we have in hand and can show live demos in personal visits to our office for those that request. "Bitcoin police force" you are welcome to visit us in Alexandria, VA and we can even show you some of the sites in DC. ;-)

new product #2: DIY miner system. Depending on feedback and interest we may release to the open source community. As of now though we plan to sell it as a DIY system with everything except the Hashing PCB's. Chassis, Fans, heatsinks, controller, PSU. Developers can start to contact us for orders right away and we will ship each new sample unit with their PCB mounting hole template. Bracket system is now adjustable with modular design. We want to establish standardized hole patterns similar to ATX, ATX-e but specific to Hash Unit PCB's. Please give us your feedback but I expect a lot of bitter people will tell us we should just melt down 1500 lbs of very application specific custom heatsinks and sell it for scrap. With all the money invested into CNC contracts and raw metal, that is not an option at this point. We can offer right now an amazingly configurable platform for DIY developers to build on top of. Think of the possibilities! Be creative and build your own miners! This is what revolutionized the PC gaming industry when the first custom game mod cases were released...

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

Hello steve1000, we are here! Please do not worry...your order is next in line to go out. I will send you more detailed info and tracking information through email. ROI Agreement will be honored.