If you wanna get on the train, you're gonna have to order when batch 3 opens no matter what.  You won't get another chance until batch 4.

Whether batch 2 will ship before then or not is anyone's guess.

Woohoo!  

Thank you for the confirmation!  No email yet, but I haz some more patience.

I plan to take the day off when it's scheduled to arrive, so I'll be sure to be home to receive it (I imagine it may require a signature.)

I've heard nothing either.  My order was placed 23 minutes after Keefe's, number 20000017x, so I expect I'm not too far behind him in the queue.  I'm also in the US.

I sure wish I could login to the avalon webstore and see the status of my order, and maybe tracking information, but alas the link 404s anymore.

http://shop.avalon-asic.com/customer/account/

I will be sorely disappointed if this turns out to be some random thing ordered on ebay that was forgotten about.

Have you looked up the tracking number and confirmed that the weight is as expected?

I bought 4 of these from EngMan in 3 purchases, first 2 with BTC on bitmit (escrowed by bitmit), and then with paypal by PM here.

All of them were shipped quickly by Priority Mail, and were quite well packed.

They're happily mining away now alongside my GPUs.

I'm also interested, as I mentioned in PM in February.

I hope I'll get a chance to buy if the current prospective purchaser does not buy.

What OS, and what mining software?

USB hub, or connected directly to a motherboard USB port?

How are you powering the x6500?

Have you tried a different USB port?

Have you tried rebooting?

Does the hashrate vary, or is it consistent?

Is the hashrate equal between the two FPGAs, or unequal?

What pool?

FWIW, there was a guy in here offering $10,000 for an in-hand Avalon.

If I had my Avalon right now I would not take him up on that offer.  Make it $25k and maybe I would.

I just plugged mine into the spare Molex connectors on my GPU miner.  Installed MPBM on my existing BAMT USB stick, and now that machine manages the FPGAs too.

For a wallwart, I'd use these:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DC-12V-2000MA-2A-CCTV-power-adapter-security-camera-/180641270640

I just PM'd him, and he sent me an invoice.  If you read the OP above, he mentions that he'll take paypal for them (verified accounts).

I'm buying the 5870s.  He says they work for mining and for gaming and output video on all ports, but he has not tried scrypt mining.

I guess I'll find out soon.

Plug the miner in and you'll start getting some back.

I paid 8 BTC for one myself.

Fortunately I then bought the next couple using paypal.

Maybe you're confusing the packaging of finished miners with the packaging of the chip dies inside FCBGA chip packages, which is what's being done now.

There are still a lot of steps before they can ship a finished product.

I recently bought one for $568 shipped, $18 of which was to cover pp fees.

Thanks shulace.

Link plz.  Maybe put the link in your sig...

I'm actually only hoping to receive my Batch 1 order in March.  I fully expect that my batch 2 order will be April+.

$200 for intl express shipping on a Single?  Surely an SC Single weighs < 1Kg.

And that's each.  Looks like they don't give any combined shipping discounts.

Jeez.

Surely the true cost is closer to $70.  No?

I thought of that as well.  It would be funny if they somehow pirated the chips.

They'll just make more wafers.  They're not gonna lose any orders for having sacrificed that one wafer (IMO).

It still told them that the chips operate at a basic level.  The test could have gone the other way where the chips didn't operate at all, and they would have needed to start looking for a cause right away.

I think that the manually-wirebound test had value.

I can only hope.

Ship all units for great justice.