Butterfly labs; scam or not

[kjakman]

I first regretted not ordering a BFL mini-rig in July 2012 when I meant to, and now I don't. Having lost 96 BTC to BitLC.com (Jim Nelin, step up!), I don't want to be screwed again. That said; to all of you who claim that BFL must be a scam because "why would they sell a machine when they could mine for themselves", look at Yifu Guo and Avalon: That's for real. And he's not the only one who wants Bitcoins to survive. MtGox could also just steal everybody's money, but they didn't (yet?). I don't think they will; there's a lot of us out there who'd rather see Bitcoin make it,than get rich quick. And in the long run, we'll all be fine anyway. So heads up BFL customers, you'll probably be fine. I was worried Intersango would screw me, and they didn't (thank you Patrick Strateman and Amir Taki)

Another lousy 2 cents from a non-rookie trying to get posting status on this forum.

  -- kjakman

[Minerthreat]

I think it is a gamble worth taking.  Mining is a competition and the chance that BFL ASICS are legit is a better bet than many. 
I also think that they have not behaved as though they were a scam.  They have had a lot of opportunities to tell people all kinds of BS to get more orders if they weren't intending on filling them.  For that matter they raised their prices.  Doubling down like that is a pretty bold move if they aren't planning to back it up.  At this point with samples being sent out and whatnot, I am pretty confidant.