They will start to delivery from May. When you will receive depends on your delivery destination and you payment order.

Hi opentoe, are you a customer of Bitcoins Direct? Would you sell me one of your coins?

Batch #1 is shipped and Batch #2 will start soon.

lol...what? don't act like its uncommon for someone to charge a fee to hold escrow funds... you just assumed I wouldn't accept escrow.

Yea well good luck in your hunt for major players

I apologize if I came off a bit aggressive in my original post. I just assumed that someone with over 250 posts on this forum would have some understanding of the underlying fundamentals.

In my opinion, the rise from 1500 to 6000 is due more to the rise in the trading price of bitcoin, and the comparative profit potential of a machine that can make 3 btc per day (currently)

As an example, consider that for the price of 3 months mortgage payments, you could purchase a device that would essentially print enough money to pay your mortgage each month. that's the way it would work if the price were fixed and the difficulty never changed.

The problem is, that the price is not fixed, and the difficulty does change. This means that there is a great deal of risk (and possible reward) involved in mining. There is no warranty, there are no guarantees. "You pays your money and you takes your chances."

If you really want to understand the aspects behind the driving forces of bitcoin, I suggest you start here -> The Money Masters <- that's where I started.

The road is long and winding. I cannot tell you where it might lead, all I can show you is the path.

:edit: if you watch the linked video, you will see that it is the ones that are in control of issuing the money that have the power. With the advent of bitcoin, that power has been distributed into the hands of the miners (and perhaps the people that create the devices that allow such issuance of money (ASIC producers)) This will perhaps explain why such a premium is placed on acquiring these devices.

sure if you want to pay for it.

Yeap. Wait for gen 2 Avalons or get some ASICminer shares. Those are valid choices.

Ill take western union, liberty reserve or GDMP

Thanks

There is a program that will automatically keep trying for you until they have some bitcoins to sell:

https://github.com/martindale/coinbase-trader

I appreciate your opinion, but we firmly stand by our 5% fee for the time being.  Other companies like us have comparable rates, and even Bitinstant charges 3.99% fee plus the ZipZap fee, Bitcopia and Ziggap each have fees right around ours.  We have to cover our costs and feel our rate is very fair considering we pay the bank to handle our many cash deposits, we provide prepaid overnight shipping labels ($18-$30), etc.

I can respect it if/when someone disagrees, but for now, 5% is where we'll stay. 

I am seeking enough Bitfloor debt to make pursuing action against Bitfloor and Roman worthwhile.  Please see this thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159221.0

Mods, I hope you will tolerate the cross post since miners are the most likely to have been burned by Bitfloor and may not monitor the service forum.

Hahaha, this is classic. I didn't think anyone would actually fall for the old "73322363" trick.

Here: http://reface.me/status-updates/funny-facebook-status-update-profile-link/

Have you tried localbitcoins.com? No bank needed for this one.

Normally you are right, given that the inflation of the USD is 0 (which it isn't). But mining equipment is a special case, because you have to account for opportunity cost, i.e. the increase in purchasing power of the BTC.

The problem of high inflation, high deflation and the likes is that it blows your mind when trying to plan in microeconomic terms. That's one of the reasons why economies go into recession when the monetary base becomes unstable.