At least Tom has the decency to refund his customers instead of stringing his customer along like BFL is doing now. What's worse is BFL taking on even more pre-orders... except for mini-rig, which is now out of stock.. How does something that was never in stock in the first place becomes out of stock? I guess even in the fantasy-dream-world that is BFL, they ran out of fairy-dust to conjure up magical mini-rigs.
if they didn't have these "ship dates" then tom might not have given up and we might've been able to get a good product from him.
I don't think so. I finally received my refund, but the way Tom handled this project I doubt that we would have seen a working miner anytime soon.