I'm pretty sure you already DID lose 10k. 
I have to ask, because I am sincerely curious what goes on in someone's mind when they do something like this.  What were you thinking?  Even if this company had turned out to be legit.  Even if they had turned out to deliver somewhere sort of near on time and on spec.  Even if everything had worked out perfectly, this was still a HUGE gamble with a substantial chance of losing money.  Why would you gamble money you couldn't afford to lose? 

Well you could get it listed on an exchange.

Lol really?  After all this you seriously think there is a working anything?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BITMAIN-S1-180GH-IN-HAND-AntMiner-USA-Seller-/271528849125?pt=US_Virtual_Currency&hash=item3f38616ee5

That took 4 seconds.  189, of which the seller will get about 160.
And of course, 90 days and 24Kw/h per day I assume you  had them underclocked quite a bit.  So maybe 150Gh/s each.  Going back 90 days to March 29th by my calculations yields earnings of 3.3BTC but the devices cost 4BTC for 4. 

Anyways, Im not trying to argue with you, I have no horse in this race.  I just think it is disingenuous to ignore electricity costs in your calculations (unless of course you have free electricity). 

So congrats on ROIing

I wasn't there, so I don't know, but I am betting whoever told you that you wouldn't ROI probably didn't think you would pretend your electricity costs don't exist or pretend you could sell the device for twice what it is worth (even ebay has them for $200.00 now).  TBH, the fact that you have to fudge the numbers to break even probably proves their point....Just sayin.

See?  This is what I was talking about.  I know the ordinary average person pays little mind to TOS's and contracts and such, but companies meticulously plan every detail that goes into them.  This is what I was trying to say earlier, if a company put something in the contract, you can be certain they will take advantage of it if at all possible. 

Well I know I mentioned it before but the "guarantee" was obviously a lie.  They told their customers that they were trying to get a payment processor but that it was completely beyond their control, and then in the same breath said they guaranteed one by July.  Obviously one of those mutually exclusive declarations had to be a lie.  
I am going to stand by my original speculation that they never had any intention of getting a payment processor.  Taking credit cards means they have to do refunds as they would be forced by the CC company.  Not allowing credit cards allows them to play this "you're a business" game and make it as difficult as possible to get a refund, after luring in unsuspecting customers who thought they were protected with the refund guarantee.  

Yea we won't save anything if you take all our bids and vanish. 

Wait, you expect people to "bid" by blindly sending you BTC, and trust that you will refund the losing bids?

I think you don't know wtf you're talking about.

GUE take forever to confirm.

There is no need to be offended.   If your happy with their service, more power to you.  I, and obviously other people as well, are simply not willing to send off thousands of dollars to an unknown company on the other side of the world that categorically refuses to do escrow or take any other steps to assure us they are legit.  If they choose to pass up the business, that is their choice, just as it is our choice to simply use another vendor where this added risk isn't an issue. 

^  This.  You don't take anything except bitcoin but won't do escrow.  The only people who can "confirm" receipt of your product are newbie accounts (which actually makes you look MORE suspicious then no confirms at all.  Seriously, who goes to all the trouble of creating an account on here, and then gives a play by play description of every step of the way for their order, and then takes pictures at the end unless they are a fake account shilling for the seller? ).  
I questions this back on June 9th (see above) and was promised that real testimony from real people would be forthcoming.  As of yet, none of it has been provided.  
Now, I won't go so far as to accuse you of being a scam.  What I will say is that unfortunately, the current state of affairs is to assume scam until proven otherwise.  So far, we have:

1.  Seller offering products at well below current market rate.
2.  Seller only accepting non reversible methods of payment.
3.  Seller refusing escrow.
4.  NO real people who have been around a while can confirm receipt of the product.
5.  Lots of very new accounts posting about how awesome this company is, and giving suspiciously GLOWING accounts of each and every step of the ordering process from start to finish.  

Of course, all this could be avoided if you were willing to do escrow like all unknown sellers, or had an established business with lots of confirmed deliveries (think like, GAW, Zoomhash, Hashra, etc.).

Maybe, but surely you can agree there is a huge difference between one bitcoin being able to purchase one gallon of milk versus one bitcoin being able to purchase one million gallons of milk versus one bitcoin not being able to purchase anything at all.  I guess you can pretend to not care about it's conversion rate into one particular currency such as USD but you surely do care about it's purchasing power, which is essentially the same thing whether you want to call it that or not.

I get it.  Since it's only a $1.65 it's okay for him to steal it, or because he stole more from you two it's okay to steal it from me?  
Or how about it obviously would have been more but I stopped mining there as soon as I realized I wasn't getting paid the full amount?
Or perhaps you two just think it is okay for a pool operator to steal funds from their user's, as long as it isn't that much?  By the way, what's the limit?  2 dollars?  10 dollars?  a hundred?  How much does he have to steal before it isn't okay?  How much has he stolen between me and the other people "missing" transactions?

Or perhaps I am being harsh accusing him of stealing, but then what do you call it when you know you owe someone money and don't pay them for 3 weeks?  I tried to be polite and patient but how long does it take for a pool to pay out if they are competent and honest?  

Anyways, since you two think it is such a trivial amount then I will take you up on your offer to "mail" me the money, please by all means go ahead and send the stol....I mean "stuck" bitcoins to my listed bitcoin address and I will consider the matter closed.  

I have already included it a half dozen times.   And been blown off each time.   Along with all the other people who haven't gotten paid either.  His software is obviously borked because I am not the only one having this problem; coins that were earned just stay in "waiting to be exchanged" forever.  Mine have been there for three weeks, others have had this problem longer.  He will eventually come along and promise "to fix it soon, just wait one more week please", at which point nothing will happen. 

I don't know if he is intentionally stealing from his customers, too incompetent to fix his code, or just doesn't give a shit, but eventually your coins will get stuck too just like mine and some other people's, and then you can join us in waiting

Ever plan on paying me?  3 weeks would sure seem like plenty of time....

Wow really?  You think the average person sees this as a success story for bitcoin?  I see it as an abject failure.  How does this show that you can do everything you need to do with bitcoin?  He didn't do hardly ANYTHING with bitcoin.  He paid for everything with fiat cash and cash equivalents. 
The average person seeing this is going to be thinking "yea, you can do anything you want with bitcoin, as long as you sell the bitcoin for cash first".  But of course you could say the same about anything.  The ONE transaction he actually made with actual bitcoin, was a failure, he lost the reservation waiting for transactions to confirm. 

A better explanation is that Alpha T doesn't know what the fuck they're doing and they're just making it up as they go along. 

But why would you want to finance their operation?  They don't appear to be offering interest on this loan.  They don't appear to be offering equity in the company, or profit sharing, or anything.  Forget about believing in their business plan for a moment, why would you or I or anyone else want to give them an interest free loan?