I was referring to the last bit of the quote, which according to google translate is:

"In time, you will not be a person, if the pumpkin always ignore our interests and demands, we went to fight, break the death, die endlessly. Please pumpkin do not hurt the feelings of the payer."

While this may be some kind of taoist prayer, and is in some ways quite beautiful, I feel that I do not completely understand its import. Perhaps that's to be expected, but if not I was implying that I would like some clarification of this passage. I did not mean to imply that I wanted such clarification from Chuck Norris.

I would buy some if the price was less than 2 BTC

What does voice recording has to do with "make money" ?

(I have flash blocked).

It is not irrelevant. I don't want to get into the semantics of what qualifies as relevant in someone elses auction thread, but your personal opinion of price-validity would more closely follow.

I continue to watch asicminer sales with interest, though I've not myself found a price I am comfortable with. A shame really. I too wish the OP luck in finding a mutually beneficial deal.

Bastards. Shipment on hold and waiting for payment. I called and need to wait for the accounting department to wake up and tell me how much import tax I will need to pay. I need to go pay in person and get the parcel myself if I still would like it today. Credit card could take at least another day.

So if you see that status better call them up. Could be different in your country.

Avalon Asic Chips are about $7 to $8 a piece with 282mh/s and you make a USB/pcb and they you go, a usb mining chip.. need to find out
the costs to make this pcb to add in a chip, maybe in due time..

Let's change it up. I'd be interested in this but non-assembled. In other words, customer solders everything accordingly. Lowers costs for distributor so they can pass some of those savings onto the customer.

reinvest what with 300mh Mr Altruism?

Yeah, I'm dying to support a network and earn money to company which "owns" 50% of network, can't wait to do it..

Dude my friend want to buy. How do I get notification when the next eruptor blade is?

I wouldn't too but not close to price you paid for it and specially not for price you're trying to sell.

First batch went cheaper than you are selling and it was waaay overpriced. Highest from 2nd batch was lot cheaper than this (if I remember good it was 55). I know it's kinda bashing your sale offer what I'm talking and that's usually lame but I had to, anything AM related is mentally priced, I'm allergic on them.

So, you realized you overpaid it at first place? Better ever than never but it might be late 

I don't understand why so many people are posting issues about the price in this thread. This thread is for people interested in the group buy.  If you are not interested, that's fine, nobody is forcing you to purchase the product.

If you have an issue with the price or product itself, take it up with the manufacturer.  Here is a thread about the product: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195004.0

first - the price is at least 25% too high. these will be mass-made in only a few months time, probably by the time these are received and reshipped...

second: why would i trust you to re-ship tens of thousands of dollars in hardware, that you could make another 50K on by using yourself for a month....?

The last time I played magic was PAX 2007, has the trend of "shit gets more powerful so you better buy the new edition" continued? 

I've done the schematic and I'm partially through the board layout now. Maybe tomorrow will have something concrete. But still pending on Avalon docs forthcoming.

Here's my first pass on the Klondike 1 PCB layout.

Prettied up with designer colours.

Board is 1" wide and 1.5" long with USB tab sticking out about 0.5". I just realized I'll need to flip over the USB tabs so that the heat sink is on top. No worries, always stuff to fix up, but lots of time before any chips show up. This will run the same firmware as I'm developing for the Klondike 16 and 64.

Also noticed I lost some thermal vias during the copy over from 16 chip board. Ha ha, I was going to redo them anyway. It's just a quickie to see how it'll fit together.

I've been tinkering with the 3D rendering in Kicad this morning so people can see what this could look like.

My current projection for retail price is $16 for a kit, and $25 for assembled - both NOT including the ASIC.

A kit would include a plastic stencil (1 per order only) and heat sink, and you'd need a skillet or toaster oven, and some skillz to put it together. I still have to source a suitable heat sink - something 1" x 1.5" would be ideal. I'm looking for something awesome but cheap.

Assembled ones would be ready to use - you'd send me an ASIC, I'd assemble and ship back.

This is upside down. The bottom will have something covering it like compound or a plastic wafer of some sort. The top would be a heat sink - no 3D model for that.

You won't see these until at least July but if I have a sample ASIC then I'll make a prototype and take pre-orders when I know it's functional, pending only ASICs then. Check out my Klondike 16 board if you need more than 1 ASIC per board. I'm expecting the K16 won't need to be fully filled, and at $35/kit would be better for multiple chips.

Here's an update of the 3D render for the K1 based on recent Avalon docs release. This is a final pre-prototype board. Will be checking it over for a bit before ordering a batch of boards for testing.

I've updated the parts list and added Gerbers on github for those interested in seeing the board close up. This is untested - do not order boards based on these Gerbers as there are likely some errors. Hopefully I'll catch them before my first prototypes.

I'm working on firmware now for both K16 and K1 (same code).

I know, looks the same, but it's not.
Added a chip and inner layers have the data signals now. ASIC also has thermal vias.
Enjoy.

First test board ready to send off to the factory.
Here is a render of it 2up, 5cm x 5cm. This is the under side.
2 LEDs on other side (top): Green - Power, Red - Activity. (position marked near left edge)
Heat sink will cover from 5mm left side to near the USB connector.
The small connector at left edge is for daisy chaining or connecting to K16. (It's an I2C bus.)
Although my test boards will be green, I'm really thinking of using white for the final product (because white and LEDs are just so bling - I just need a blue anodized heat sink).

First batch of 20 test boards just ordered.
Expect to see them here in 10-12 days if all goes well.

Latest status - waiting for K1 test boards to arrive. They were shipped on May 30th. so should be here in a few days. I'm setting up a prototype board to test firmware while waiting for the K1s. Until today I was waiting on PIC chips to come in. Some of the firmware code has been tested and scoped by choaztc and is working but even if I get fully functional firmware I'm still going to be waiting on Avalon samples to test/verify against, and those appear to be a couple-few weeks out.

I don't have spare Avalon chips ordered to make K1 sales with. I know of a few forum members who have chips and are waiting on final boards to produce a ready-to-use product, either on their own or with me providing boards or assembly (K1 only). So I think by the time chips begin arriving there will be options for those who want a plug n play K1 experience. At some point, when more certainty is available, pre-orders will be opened and jumping on that will be best bet for early on product.

Just a cross post for those not following the K16 thread.

K1 test boards are here and I'll be working on assembling a few for testing next. The firmware is mostly done and I'm expecting by the time the ASIC samples arrive the kinks will be worked out and I can focus on just the ASIC data signal issues.

just get ready for the new avalon 40-45 gh/s

should cost 20-50btc.