That's a major flaw in your argument. The next generation of 28nm ASICs from ASICMiner, BitFury and Sponddooies all promising less than 0.2 J/gh will be available soon. All those companies have 16nm plans (as does KNC which has apparently already taped out) for later this year as well. Those 16nm ASICs are expected to use around 0.05 J/Gh making them 10x more efficient than an S5.

Here's a list of legitimate cloud mining services:

AMHash
Bit-x
Genesis Mining
Hashnest
KNC Cloud
MegaMine

All except MegaMine are operated by or in partnership with the ASIC manufacturers.

I notice yet another ponzi in your sig. 

From what I remember, there was a lot of fuss about the compensation not being adequate.

Also, the SP20s initially had a problem with boards coming loose during shipping because they wasn't secured properly. Like Philip said, everyone has had some form of issues.

That's how it looks for me when I don't allow javascript to run.

Until some evidence of legitimacy is provided, they're not a cloud mining service at all. They're some shady person/group that refuses to provide evidence of legitimacy that you handed money over to and they drip-feed it back to you. That sounds exactly like a ponzi to me.

When they provide pictures of their DC, the miners they use and proof that they actually have the hashing power they claim, then they can claim to be a cloud mining service. Until then, they're just another ponzi.

Unless this company has free electricity (which it obviously does not) then no miner in existence will last 5 years, you'd be very lucky if the most efficient current gen miners are profitable for another 6 months, never mind 5 years.

5 years contracts are a blatant lie, and only scammers have advertised such nonsense. Your contract will end this year - one way or another.

  How long was Madoff's ponzi running for?

Payouts are no proof of legitimacy. I'll ask again, what have Eobot done to prove their legitimacy. Have they shown that they actually have 2 Ph/s like they claim? Have they shown pictures of their DC and hardware? Have any ASIC manufacturers confirmed that they've sold Eobot any miners? They've done nothing as far as I know.

Why, because some newbie says so? What have they done to prove their legitimacy?

Here's a list of legitimate cloud mining services, which you'd already know if you bothered doing any research:

AMHash
Bit-x
Genesis Mining
Hashnest
KNC Cloud
MegaMine

All except MegaMine are operated by or in partnership with the ASIC manufacturers. They're pretty much certain to carry on because new contracts will be created as new miners are created.

I doubt it. Each miner needed thorough testing which would mean letting it run for a good amount of time. When you've got thousands of miners to test, it's obviously going to take a while.

Like I said, they have crappy customer service but the question wasn't about customer service or any of the other issues you mentioned. The question I'm talking about was who "cares most about its customers". AM fucked up big time with the Prismas but they cared that much about accidentally screwing over their customers that they bought them back for the original price paid for them, despite months of mining on them. Would Spondoolies or Bitmain do that? Spondoolies wouldn't even give their customers fair compensation when their pre-orders didn't live up to expectations and the initial price of the SP20 was a total ripoff. Like I said, AM is clearly at the top of the list when it comes to "caring for their customers".

As for who would want AM gear again, the answer to that is pretty much everybody interested in making a profit. If AM put out a non-problematic 0.2-0.4 J/Gh miner next month at a good price, you'd have to be a major fanboy to chose an SP20 or S5 instead.

As proven by your comment, the answers to this poll are not based on facts or logic but emotions. This whole ordeal was flawed to begin with and damn shady from Guy, especially coming not long after that review spam. And then there was the spreading of lies in other manufacturers threads a few months back. For example, in the AM thread, he posted that he "knew" that FC was selling chips at cost which FC denied. Guy is good at providing customer service for Spondoolies but I reckon his actions on this forum have been a bit shady so far.

You're not taking into account the cost of a 16nm mask. That's going to be considerably more expensive as are the wafers themselves. Look at KnC's 20nm offering, it was way overpriced and less efficient than some 28nm offerings. I reckon their 16nm offering will also be an overpriced stinker.

I'm more concerned about BitFury's and Spondoolies' next gen chips than KnC's.

Also, TSMC has been having problems with 16nm and its been delayed by 3-6 months.

I can't believe AM did so bad in the caring for customers departments. They may have shitty customer service but they clearly care about their customers as evidenced by the Prisma buy back program. In my book that puts them straight to the top of that list. If there was a profitability question, it would probably also put the Prisma straight to the top of that list too.

Claiming that 0.5-0.6 J/Gh is "the norm" with Bitmain and Spondoolies is also dishonest. Unless you significantly underclock the miners and thereby significantly increase the cost per Gh, the only product in that range from either of those companies is the S5.

Havelock has always been like that. You get used to it.

Well, I just left you negative feedback for trying to get people ripped off by referring them to a blatant ponzi - coindouble.

You don't need hindsight, just common sense, something you clearly don't have. There is something drastically wrong with the well your thinking works, which makes you invest in all these scams despite getting ripped off all the time.Look at you bloody signature you idiot, you're advertising another ponzi.

If you have anything legitimate to say, then why not just say it instead of dicking around.

If you design a miner from current gen chips then it's going to be obsolete by the time it comes to manufacture it. Bitfury may already have 0.2 J/Gh chips and AM's will be out this month if everything is still on track (they were actually about a week ahead of schedule getting sample chips). Spondoolies said their next gen chip will be significantly better than 0.2 J/Gh.

You're almost certainly better off waiting and getting some of the next gen chips.