I have three Avalons for sale located near Washington, D.C. USA.  They were sold as batch 3 but are batch 2 chassis with 850 watt power supplies.

Each has been overclocked and hashes on average, 79 GH/s or so (may be slightly more or less).  Firmware is ckolivas 0703.  These have been up and running stable since I had them delivered late July.  I only did preventative reboots but probably were not necessary.

PRICE:  70 BTC each and I will pay for 3 day shipping (up to $100, but if it is more, I will either ship ground or you can cover the additional cost).  Anything over that, you must pay actual costs.  I can ship today with tracking if you don't require escrow.  I will send you my ebay and amazon seller IDs, and will verify my identity so you can see I am trustworthy.  PM offers or email pikeadz at gmail dot com for fastest response.  I will only be checking this thread a few times a day.

Escrow not required, but you pay the fee if you want it.  Also, I will only use someone reputable like JohnK if he is back from vacation, or someone else we both agree to.

Here are two of them.  The third looks exactly the same but doesn't have the power supply lit up.

EDIT:  Shipping is turning out to be very expensive.  I will still pay up to $100 but it has to be insured for the purchase amount, and adult signature required.  I am also open to local pickup!!!

[will arrive Monday or Tuesday]

Hello all,

I haven't decided if I am selling or not.  I have five Batch 3 units on the way.  Three of them are 3-module WITH power supplies and will arrive Monday or Tuesday as I've already received tracking.  The other two are 4-modules without PSUs that I have not received tracking for, but Yifu said they will ship within 2 weeks.

I wanted to host them out of my house, but I am not sure if my panel will be able to support 5 miners so I am considering selling one or two.

PM me your serious offers.   Keep in mind, these will be IN MY HANDS within 2-3 days.  Threadcrappers/lowballs will just be deleted.  Pics will be posted when they arrive, and I intend to open them up and mine with them unless someone offers me enough to ship it to them in new condition. (I will still open it up and video tape the unboxing so johnk can verify that I did not send you a box of rocks though).

Escrow with John K is fine if you want it.  I will videotape the shipment and send it expedited shipping with tracking and insurance within 24 hours of payment.  Shipping price is actual amount paid in bitcoins, but is negotiable depending on price offered.

EDIT:  UPDATE, as of 8:41 EST, these have cleared customs and are Cincinnati, OH.  They will definitely arrive on Monday.

We saw from the BFL fiasco today that Garr255 was posing as someone else on bitcointalk.  It was also pointed out later in that thread that he bid up his own auctions here:

I think a scammer tag is in order. 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236794.msg2517566#msg2517566 - thread where Garr255 apologizes for using two accounts (Garr255 and Werner) to troll the forum.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159808.new#new - auction where he bid on his own jalapeno as "Werner"

http://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate

44 Th/s drop the past few days.  Difficulty estimate for next readjustment is to stay the same or go down slightly.  Speculate the cause and the effect!  Go!

Edit:  44, not 4... duh

Hello,

My first auction ended last night so I thought I'd start a rep thread.  I plan on selling many more miscellaneous electronics and other items in the auctions and goods section soon.  Thanks!

[Starting bid is BTC2.4.]

3 day auction beginning at 8:35pm Eastern Time.  Auction ends at June 17, 2013 at 8:35pm Eastern Time.

Model GT-P5113TSYXAR
Size storage: 16gb
Color: Titanium Silver
Condtion:  Brand new, sealed.  Never opened or used.  No damage.  Box is in perfect condition with factory tape.

Starting bid is BTC2.4. Increments of .05 minimum please.

See here for specs/description:  http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=4789029&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&fs=saas&saas=saas&st=5215429

Payment:  Escrow preferred. Buyer pays fee.  I would like to use JohnK and I will be filming the packing and shipping of this, including serial #, to avoid scammers/disputes.
Shipping:  Ships anywhere in the USA for FREE with insurance.  No international shipping.
Returns:  No returns/exchanges.  I will include my receipt dated 6/13/13 and you can take it to Staples to exchange if you wish, or you can file warranty claim with Samsung if it's defective.

I sell on ebay and amazon with 99.9%+ positive feedback and am happy to provide a link to my other auctions to bidders via PM.  I am migrating my business to bitmit but also trying here. 

Any questions post here or PM.  Thanks.

I have been investing in Bitcoin since December and have tried many of the services, bought GPU mining farms, ASICS, and feel I have a good, albeit very basic understanding of the block chain and cryptography.  I have had some ideas that I'd like to design web sites for down the line, but I am not a web designer or programmer.  

I have taken a C++ course years ago, so I would not be new to coding, but all it was was basic problem solving.  I am currently taking the MIT open courseware course on Python.  Can anyone recommend the most useful way to go about learning enough on my own to design a functional web site?  Most of my ideas are very general and I don't want to detail them here for obvious reasons, but I am curious how many of you got your start.  

I am not talking about developing QT or anything massive.  Just small, donation-supported or scripts that I would implement on a monetized web site.  What do you all think?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220683.0

BTCBuyer posted this thread yesterday.  He is relatively new to the community and claims to be developing Avalon clones with Klondike boards (red flag #1 right there since Avalons don't use the currently unavailable Klondikes).  After he receives 10,000 chips, he says he *guarantees* his team of anonymous engineers will assemble all the chips into the boards within 10 days. 

I and others had a few questions about whether he would accept escrow, who he was, how he was going to assemble them, etc.  He chose to ignore the escrow question at first, but after repeated attempts, finally said he would not accept escrow.  Then he proceeded to delete all my posts from his thread.  Here they are.  I am not going to outright call him a scammer, but I think everyone should do their homework on this guy and ask the same types of questions.  Not only does he refuse to answer them, he deletes them.

I will keep this post short and simple.

I have personally purchased 10,000 chips from Avalon. For interested parties who want these machines and want proof the chips were ordered the photos are attached here. I even made a recording, of the cash trade for the bitcoins necessary to get this done. This can be provided upon request.

I am selling these machines for BTC75 each, just like Avalon has in the past. These machines will hash at 72GH/s each. You can expect your machines Mid to Late August. Everything will be shipped to you overnight from United States, if you are international please contact me and we will address proper shipping cost.

I will only be selling 35 machines. Nothing more, if you are interested, act soon. This is the real deal folks do not miss it.

What makes you qualified to do this?  BFL can't build a working ASIC in 10 months but Scammer McScammy can do it in a few days?  Post your credentials please.

If I had to design everything from scratch yes I wouldn't be able to do this, however, Avalon is providing every detail necessary for us to manufacturer their machines, before you flame learn about what's out there. Thanks.

I am well aware that yifu released the plans.  That doesn't mean a monkey can build a clone.  Post your credentials and why people should trust you.  Christ with all the scams out there...why wouldn't you want to legitimize yourself and provide more information?  Every ASIC except Avalon and ASICMINER is a scam until proven otherwise.  Not flaming... just a fact of life in this industry.

Another deleted post... 

Xian, Thank you for your interest. In this case, you can see that I have personally ordered 10,000 Avalon Chips already, I have posted pictures of the proof. If I hope you understand that if I didn't have the abilities to put this together, I wouldn't put up 100k of my own money to do this.

As far as delivery that is up to Avalon, my estimated date is based off of what they have suggested for a Delivery date.

If you have more questions please ask.

I guess my one question would be why do you keep dodging the "escrow" request people keep making?  It's come up at least 3 times now and you've not stated whether you would honor such requests.  Either you will or you won't.

And another... 

I am not accepting escrow for the same reason why all the big Players aren't accepting escrow, this business is built on trust and faith, if you don't trust me, simply don't do business with me.

OK, first, you are not a big player.  You are not even a little player.  You are completely unknown to this industry and have thus far refused to state your name or background.  The difference is, Avalon and, while it pains me to say this, even BFL had established themselves with FPGAs in a way that they did not need to use escrow to gain the trust of their buyers.  You have come out of the blue, out of complete anonymity, with no credentials other than some anonymous engineers who will be doing all the grunt work in a "guaranteed" 10 day time frame, you refuse to accept escrow, and expect people to hand over their hard earned money to you.  I'm not surprised a few already have.  I just think it's sad.  Until you change a few things with the way you do business, expect people to call you out on it too.

Finally, his PM to me: 

I don't understand why you are on my thread still, if you don't like my terms great, keep it to yourself. My thread is for people who believe and want a quality ASIC. Everything comes pre-assembled. If you like Avalon or BFL go order from them. If you believe you'll get BFL first great, I have proof that I actually ordered the 10k chips and not just claiming, to have it as a pre-order. These machines will be built, and that's the guarantee that I have over my competition who don't have posted photos of them buying the chips. I even have a video.

With that said, I wish you well, and if you'd like to buy from me great, if not please stay out of my thread. Thank you.

[UPDATE: PROBLEM FIXED. See below. A portion (0.2 BTC) of the bounty went to dogie for helping me with stratum and setup of the blade, despite not getting the proper hash rate. The rest of the bounty I am keeping because it took 48 hours of troubleshooting on my own to fix it. Hope it helps someone who has the same problem]

I can mine on btcguild at about 4500mh/sec which is like 50% efficiency.  I can't get stratum to work on slush's pool or btcguild.  If you can help me configure the settings over the phone, and possibly using teamviewer, AND get me the advertised 10,700 to 12,000 mh/s I will pay you a 0.5 BTC bounty.  We can use escrow if you like.

Please email me at pikeadz@gmail.com with your bitcointalk ID.  I will review your post history and pick the person I think is most qualified shortly.  I am not a total noob, but I have never mined outside of getwork protocol so the settings are a little confusing and I would like to get this up and running quickly.  Thanks!

UPDATE:  PROBLEM FIXED.  See below.  A portion (0.2 BTC) of the bounty went to dogie for helping me with stratum and setup of the blade, despite not getting the proper hash rate.  The rest of the bounty I am keeping because it took 48 hours of troubleshooting on my own to fix it.  Hope it helps someone who has the same problem

Redeemed.