Yes Im located in the USA. I am getting tired of holding these BTC and Id much rather convert them into merchandise than deal with exchanging them for FIAT at the moment.

Looking to buy some pro audio gear for BTCs. Willing to pay a small percentage over FIAT value for convenience. Would prefer escrow, will release once tracking indicates its headed to my location. We can negotiate the terms of the arrangement to suit both parties.

Purchase would likely be made at musicians friend, ebay, or amazon.

Heres a few examples of the items Id be looking at. Let me know your $$ limit, and I will find a piece the piece of gear I want to purchase.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/qsc-gx5-stereo-power-amplifier

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/behringer-xenyx-1204usb-usb-mixer

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/alesis-multimix-8-usb-fx-regular

When would you release the coins? When its paid for, shipped, or received?

Im interested but delivery time is going to be critical for me.

If between now and early Jan Im in for ~$500US or 0.5BTC, if late Jan Id be in for $2,000US or 2.0BTC.

If the buy isnt setup and expecting shipment by end of january Id just order from an Etailer at normal price.

I am absolutely interested in at least 1 blade at this price. Simply amazing.

Off to sell all my alt coins!

This is way up there on my watch list. I just picked up a blade, so if either my finances straighten out or I get a decent score mining Ill be back for one of these ASAP.

Well I had literally written a giant post that was about 3k words long but the silly forum idled me out and lost my post..... On that note Im going to keep it short and sweet.

Basically this is what you must know. Consider alternate coins if you dont want to jump in with big hardware.

ASICs come in all shapes and sizes and price ranges. For learning the ropes but not really making much profit USB block eruptors are good. Up from them would be the BitFury USB which produce 2.5GH for the same amount of electricity as the block eruptors, but these are not so good on the $/performance ratio. Right now entry level $/performance probably goes to the asicminer blades which run ~$300 and provide 10GH/sec, and can be installed onto a backplane supporting up to 10 of them for a total of 100GH.

To earn 1K per month mining you need to be prepared to dish out several thousand dollars right now, and continue to invest more into hardware as time goes on.

www.bitcoinx.com can help you predict if its worth it to you to mine BTC. www.coinwarz.com will allow you to gauge alternate coins. Right now if you have a small amount of hashing power alternate coins are much more profitable.

Once you find a coin you want to mine search around the internet for a mining pool as they allow for more consistent payouts.

Sorry this isnt more detailed, and good luck.

USB block eruptors are decent little devices. Admittedly they are a bit behind the curve, but if you have an interest in mining they are good for learning the ropes. I have 6x of them in a powered hub with an upgraded PSU. You need a hub with 0.5A per eruptor you want to run. Most will not provide sufficient power so you will likely end up investing into an extra power adapter for them.

I personally use eligius pool with mine. I have earned 0.015BTC in the last 4 or 5 days since I set them up there. You can also use SHA256 multi pool to mine multiple alternate coins, or any number of pools for alt coins. I ran mine @ theseven PPC pool for months quite successfully before they shutdown.

If you decide to pursue alternate coins you need to bookmark this page http://www.coinchoose.com they track the difficulty and exchange rate of most of the major alternate coins.