First, allow me to introduce myself. I'm the biggest Bitmain Sucker ever, apparently. I bought the S4 the day it went on sale and, although I took delivery quickly, getting in early screwed me over in more ways than I can count. So let's count them:
1. Bitmain offered coupons to buyers of their earlier products to knock $200 off the sticker price of the S4, but not to buyers of the only earlier product that I'd bought (a pair of S3's) so such fail, much weep, No coupon for me when I ordered mine (and although they became widely available from other customers over the weeks after the S4's went on sale, that was weeks too late for me cuz I was so quick to pull the trigger). No soup for you! Wonderful, punish the customer...........
Coupons given for antminer S2 buyers . I got 14 coupons $200. I bought a 37 Antminer S3 and did not get any coupons.2. Bitmain lowered the price of the S4 for everyone days later, knocking off $200, to drum up more "late adopters" I assume. Punish the early enthusiastic cheerleader customers, reward the skeptics.
Patch 2 was cheaper than patch1, It is not Weird. 3. Oh yeah the thing didn't work right and we're still waiting for a fix. Top it off by ignoring the customer as you celebrate the longest holiday the west has ever effin heard of. Which, by the way, again I say, whaaat? the whole country takes a whole week off? what's the excuse? Tree day, squirrel day? Y'know far, far, FAR be it from me to begrudge anyone their slackage, but a whole week of traveling or something while my just-launched $1400 miner waits for a firmware update
*and* the next looming Difficulty of Damocles hangs ponderously over our heads too this week?
not this time https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty I dont think that's much wow service -- thanks for your very slack amaze. At my job we're not allowed to launch big new changes on a Freakin' Friday and then go home to sleep late for the weekend. You ship a new miner all over the world. And then your whole country -- wait for it -- travels.
So Bitmain tainers, I hope you had a nice holiday. My wife is gonna divorce me <-- not your fault, of course. I know I'm addicted to gambling with bitcoin mining hardware and chasing Don Quixote-style the ROI pot of gold at the end of a rainbow of evaporating mining returns that is boiling off just as I reach out to touch it, from the heat generated by rising network difficulty and spin applied by the simultaneously falling price of bitcoin this week (month, and year). ASIC hardware manufacturers are just the most obvious symptoms of that malaise, not the problem :-) At least in China the FTC can't seize their business lol shh, don't jinx it!
Great. So. While I may acknowledge, grudgingly, that my madness has caused me to break up with reality, it does not make me irrational! (does it?) After all, there are still laws of this universe (wait, what?) and rules with their own sort of internal consistency -- even if only we, the afflicted, can comprehend them. And in my delusional world, dammit, I find -- to my own horror, yes -- that I'm now interested in yet another pair of S3's ...and the Batch 10's are finally on sale --- woot!
Golden Week (China) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_%28China%29Three days of paid holiday are given, and the surrounding weekends are re-arranged so that workers in Chinese companies always have seven continuous days of holiday. These national holidays were first started by the government for the PRC's National Day in 1999 and are primarily intended to help expand the domestic tourism market and improve the national standard of living, as well as allowing people to make long-distance family visits. The Golden Weeks are consequently periods of greatly heightened travel activity.
An estimated 28 million Chinese traveled during the first National Day Golden Week in 1999.[2] In 2007, this number had increased to over 120 millionSo of course I rush in (as fools are wont to do). But their hubris thankfully stopped me this time (or at least slowed me down): now I see that Bitmain, in their infinite generosity, have bestowed upon my account... A Gift: a Coupon no less. For me. Aww, you shouldn't have! Oooh, don't I feel like Charlie, finding a Golden Ticket to the Wonka Factory at the bottom of my cereal box now!
But alas, they Still Just Don't Get It:
Coupon ID: xxx
Info: AntMiner S4 Coupon 50 USD
Total Count: 1
Use Count: 0
Validity Time: 2014-09-28 17:27:00~2014-10-27 17:27:00
Option: [Donate] button
Whaaaat? And they "gave me" this, apparently, one week AFTER they charged me full freight for it?? The Chinese Chocolate Factory has clearly failed to grok the rules of the universe into which they themselves have lured and entrapped me, because A.) Willie sold me this dream, by finally putting pairs of highly overclockable Batch 10 S3+'s back on sale this morning, but then 2.) he's gone and completely blown it for me by cruelly issuing me a Golden Ticket that's for too small a discount, good for too short a time and, only useful to pray at the alter of the Dreaded Evil Sith Lord Villain -- the S4 -- that, while they've been reveling in their holiday and ignoring our agony, we the inhabitants of their ASICverse have come to Truly Hate. And the irony is, that by going on holiday and continually ignoring the ensuing customer support catastrofrack, they themselves taught us to loathe it so. Such uncool.
Anybody want a $50 USD coupon for a S4, the big loud-breathing Darth Vader of Antminers? This golden ticket expires in three weeks and I'm taking bets as to whether or not they will have released the firmware by then, necessary to make it -- you know -- actually work and mine at a pool at its "guaranteed" 2TH speed. Such betting not so much.
Antminer S4 Patch 1 buyers got all the $50 coupons. I hope to get one of the Patch 2 purchase. Maybe Bitmain will issue we, their biggest suckers, who bought an S4 at the its highest cost using no coupons -- I dunno, call it a new "Sucker Coupon", a "Bronze Ticket" if you will, for a new Batch 10 S3 (or two). Free shipping, for instance, would be nice. Or maybe they'll just continue to Milk us Suckers. Sluggo would be such proud.
thanks,
-dave
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