I see ~120 priority boxes taped up and sitting on a dock. BFL could've easily taken a pic every single day since July 4, 2012, Full Production Day, depicting 100-400 boxes on the dock. Do they not realize how far showing such images would have carried them? They wouldn't even need to pay out one satoshi for advertising to garner more sales if they did such unless, of course, this was their biggest day ever in shipping, and Jody snapped that pic prior to having to change her underwear.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/blogs/

yes, i know there were less Little Singles ordered than pretty much anything else. The first month may only represent a hundred or so miners, but that is just the current consensus guess. If this rate could be maintained (an unlikely stretch) then a unit ordered today would be delivered by the end of the month.

Not trying to be a shill here, but any time someone actually delivers substantial hashing power it is certainly news worthy. That is somewhere around 2.5 Th/s plug and play ready about to come online in the next few days.

Well Phinnaeus (I think) got that info from a post where Josh said he expected the backlog to be cleared by the end of August or something like that.

EDIT: He says it here: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/pre-sales-questions/3611-buttefly-company-still-work-not-3.html#post44788

From Josh:

Im not sure how you figured out number "0,0655" but ... my one coupon = 1 Usb miner, that means 1 usb miner for 0.3 Btc

And yes you can buy from someone who has reputaion...your choice ....

sorry, not interested.
Minimum price is 2000 USD.

But what laws could they have violated in local jurisdiction?  Eliminate all crimes against person (which corporations cannot engage in) from local jurisdiction, and you're pretty much left with traffic, substance abuse, and property code violations. 

Things like wire fraud are federal in scope; securities law violations are possibly state, but never local.

Now that we are approaching 4 months from my chips order date I am starting to feel like a chump for sure. I trusted Avalon, and with every day that goes by I feel more snd more like my trust was misplaced.  I made the best mining investment I could in late April, and even that turned out to be a dud.

Truth is that the best investment from now on might be to buy and hold coins only. Too many people rushed into mining at once after our 3 month gold rush. Mining became over invested when the price peaked early 2013 and before mining power could come online fast enough to compensate.

Nobody knew the chips would be delayed back in April. It seemed like shipping could happen within 9 weeks at that time. They are just chips. Chips that they made before already.

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None of this negates the fact that if you show up in china with a lawsuit over this you will get more laughs then results. What a waste of time and money. The fact that I realize this does not make me a doormat. It make me practical. I have no power to enforce Avalons shipping dates and the sooner I realize that and move on the better. I need to focus my energy on things I have control over now.

 He holds all the cards and I know that sending him something from a lawyer won't help speed him up, only slow him down.