I'm gonna give it a try with 20 GH/s. I just tried to place an order via the website but after the form was submitted, it returned me to the main site. Problems?

Sorry, I have to add a few more observations:

13. Uses terms like "our staff" and "management decision" and "international team" in at least 3, 4 (?), 5 (?) international locations.

14. Does not have a registered company.

15. Here it gets judgemental, but maybe it helps some beginners who are impressed by words: the "data center" is not a data center. Nothing bad about that, but the terminology is wrong and misleading. On the other hand, many cryptocurrency-related enterprises (and individuals) are talking about data center(s) even when it's obvious they've put all their equipment in a garage, basement or some warehouse. So maybe this has already been accepted by the community.

16. Links to a Bitcoin profitability calculator from their website (FAQ) that does not take into account network difficulty.

I'm not saying they are a scam. But I have a different understanding of "maximum clarity" (quote).

Intentionally I did not jump to any public conclusions. I didn't judge, just wrote down what I found out.

Don't worry, my account is older than yours. I just never posted here.

I planned to purchased 300-500 GH/s and therefore I've evaluated this a bit and would like to share my opinion. Please note, I'm NOT saying that this is a scam. I'm trying to be as "un-judgemental" as possible.

1. To me personally, after I saw the pictures and read the advertisements that were posted in this thread, I was convinced that this is a Russia-based (or in a Russian-speaking country) operation. I'm not saying this might be bad or anything, but it will become relevant a bit later in this posting.

2. If you do a whois for the domain, you will see that a person called Tina is the owner of the domain, with an address in Germany.

3. Uses hotmail.com eMail address. hotmail.com (if you use the web-frontend for mailing) does not transmit the senders IP address in the eMail header.

4. I got in touch via Skype. The official Skype account of Alpha Miners belongs to Tina. In her Skype profile she says she's located in Singapore.

5. I asked where they are located, the answer was: data center in China, support in Singapore.

6. I asked whether she is Russian, the answer was no.

7. I asked why the domain is registered on a German address. She said because she is located in Germany.

8. When I asked whether she is located in Germany, she said she is not currently in Germany and they only provide support in English after I asked (in German) whether she speaks German.

9. I checked how she connects to the internet and she's using the popular VPN service hidemyass.com with an IP address in Lithuania.

10. I asked whether she will send me her national ID after I purchased, she said yes.

11. I asked whether we can make a video call via Skype (my intent was to see if there's really a girl sitting on the other end), she said she cannot speak with customers, and management requires that communication is only via web-messaging.

12. I wrote that with so many countries (Singapore, Russia, Germany but doesn't speak German, China data center, VPN service in Lithuania) it sounded a bit fishy to me. The answer was that she understood my concerns but that they are an international team.

That's it.