A pre-order is an order placed for an item which has not yet been released. Everything since is an order and won't be shipped until the pre-orders are taken care of. The only way YOUR version makes sense is if I word it "wont be shipped until the pre-order BACKLOG is taken care of" No need to "change the rules" you already stated it above, which I highlighted. Placed to order = not pre-ordered. Feel free to contradict yourself.
Simple solution. Don't post in the thread titled "BF Labs Inc. WILL process ALL backlogs by September 30, 2013!" where this whole conversation got started. If you only want to talk about orders before April 5th...
Before you get all high and mighty, maybe you need to check this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276692.msg3008867#msg3008867 *YOU* brought backlog into it.
*NOW* moved to backlog.
Now, by using YOUR DEFINITION, I could place an order on Sept 29th, and when they did not ship it on Sept 30 I could scream and yell and holler that they did not meet their stated aim of shipping their backlog. Sorry, it does not hold water. To estimate clearing ANYTHING you have to have a set figure. If you are constantly adding to this figure, the time will therefore increase as well. You are now claiming BFL can see into the future to know what orders will be placed and KNOW they can satisfy it. Typical troll.
New orders would not change the fact that they cleared their backlog, it would just create a second backlog. If at any time they shipped all outstanding orders, the backlog is cleared. Plus they would ship your order Sept. 30 if they had cleared their backlog. They would actually have inventory of assembled units. They could have same day turnaround just as real companies such as Newegg.com.
You just contradicted yourself. "The backlog includes every order up to the current minute." Thanks and quoted for posterity.
Whoa, I need wikipedia here.... The twenty-foot equivalent unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals. There is a lack of standardisation in regards to height, ranging between 4 feet 3 inches (1.30 m) and 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m), with the most common height being 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m)... AMAZING! 20' long, 8' wide and 4'3" to 9'6" tall. 680 to 1520 CUBIC FEET. Quite a range there bud. That'd hold 1360 to 3040 of the large .5 cubic foot USPS flat rate packages measureing 12 by 12 by 5 1/2. Yea, I see a HUGE need for those TEUs.
A TEU is just a unit of shipping. Also, if you have 300 boxes, you need to put them on pallets otherwise they would roll around inside the truck and they couldn't efficiently move them around. The point is, they would need a large truck instead of the normal little USPS trucks you see arriving in the pics. Maybe they only took pictures on small shipping days. However, they were bragging about how big the piles were. Also, the guy who posted the pics left the company and there haven't been any pictures posted since.
Ah, obviously things would never change. Never need a bigger truck, the boxes would just roll around. Hate to burst your bubble, they'd roll around even worse in something the size of a TEU unless BFL was shipping like 750 or more boxes a day.
When were these pictures taken? For 2 months only Jalapenos left the building, would really need that container for those! And gee, the post office would NEVER think to change the vehicle size they pick up with if the orders started ramping up, that'd be silly! Let's make 10 trips! And of course EVERYTHING is shipped by USPS as well! Why use Fed-Ex and UPS and DHL like the customers want for their expedited shipping? That'd make WAY too much sense.
Not my fault BFL uses USPS. Jalapenos are the smallest boxes. Obviously, 300 singles would take up more space and require even more space in trucks.
Not BFL's fault either. The customer chose. I see you ignored the fact that USPS is not the only shipper they use. Typical.
You are looking a bad data and making assupmtions. That 15.5 Jalapenos a day average could be well over 100-150, we'll never know. The lowet Jan. Jala order is 15742 and the highest is 18379. 83 Jalapenos from 68 orders. All told, 182 orders spread over 2600 order numbers. Using the minimum they shipped 21 a day since Jan was cleared in 4 days.
My point was to use how fast BFL claims they can ship to demonstrate we can estimate the size of their backlog.
Yep, we KNOW about 1400 devices so that is ALL they can do.
I'd bet my next paycheck against your next paycheck they are closer to 7000 devices shipped than your piddly estimate.
Keep chanting your mantra, <Oooom... long con... Ooooom>. You refuse to acknowledge anything but your limited point of view, even though you are wrong.
I have acknowledged everything almost you have posted (some of the more vapid stuff I just reply with a PSA).
It seems that you are just here to derail threads for your lord and master Inaba. Exhibit A, you didn't even post this response in the thread it belongs in:
BF Labs Inc. WILL process ALL backlogs by September 30, 2013!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=268055.0Did you get lost? Derailing so many threads you can't keep track anymore?
See above... *I* did not get lost, YOU did.
