"Avalon" ASIC, announcement & pre-order. pre-order over. project started.

[Bogart]

Can you tell us what kind of shipping service will be used?  For $60 I certainly hope we would get DHL Express or something similarly fast.  Or should we ask Yifu this?

[luffy]

EMS is just fine. quick and reliable
but i don't know how the local customs treat each courrier company!

[cedivad]

Do we have to contact him to send the wire payment or will we be contacted?

[Unacceptable]

I couldn't find a button or anything to place an order on that site either  

Guess I'll have to wait for the next "wave",that sucks

Edit: OH,two different sites:

Purchase here:
http://shop.avalon-asic.com/

Timer here:
http://avalon-asic.com/
no link to shop page 

Hmmm,ok.....................................

there is a red and striking " buy it now" button at http://avalon-asic.com/ home page... 

Its there now,but at the time it said contact & the other button said subscribe as it still does.

Oh well,I'll see if I can in on the next batch 

[libertybuck]

We europeans are used to have to get up at strange hours during these kind of events and we never said a word

Bible. 

[ragingazn628]

Hello,

What is the payment method? I hope it's with BTC and paypal?

[randomguy7]

EMS is just fine. quick and reliable
but i don't know how the local customs treat each courrier company!

EMS sucks for German customers, their contracted courier service which handles delivery within Germany charges a second fee from the receivers (after the sender already paid for shipping to the door step).
I'd prefer shipping with UPS (and would pay a premium for it [within reasonable limits]).

[fcmatt]

It appears the website, http://shop.avalon-asic.com, one cannot change their shipping address and have it
show up throughout the my account area as a whole.

For example, if you change your shipping address from YYY to ZZZ.. and delete the old address...
you then goto "My Orders" it still shows the old information when you dig down into your order.

It makes me wonder if a person changed the information and did not follow up with you guys.. where
would it ship to exactly?

[Carlton Banks]

People with less money (less than $40, 000) have been unfairly treated by this policy of allowing bulk customers to buy first. Irrefutably.


I would still like to hear what ngzhang has to say about this. He has had ample opportunity to explain thus far. No explanations forthcoming thus far.

[arklan]

as always in financial terms, might makes right, in this case. fair shamair. who said business is fair?

[allinvain]

Ngzhang, any chance of allowing Icarus/Lancelot owners to trade in multiple (old) mining boards per 60/gs ring?

[Inaba]

Maybe Inaba can lend a hand and tell you what a prolapsing douchetard you are for feeling entitled to first grab at something that most of the people on the forum can't even afford.  Then he'll offer to return your money.

And by Inaba, I mean the world.

Sir, I am offended.  OFFENDED. I would never use the term prolapsing douchetard.  I just simply would not. 

On another note, welcome to the world of not being able to please people no matter what you do, ngzhang.  It does not get better.

[crazyates]

Maybe Inaba can lend a hand and tell you what a prolapsing douchetard you are for feeling entitled to first grab at something that most of the people on the forum can't even afford.  Then he'll offer to return your money.

And by Inaba, I mean the world.

Sir, I am offended.  OFFENDED. I would never use the term prolapsing douchetard.  I just simply would not. 

On another note, welcome to the world of not being able to please people no matter what you do, ngzhang.  It does not get better.

Sir Warwick Harrow: I know him, and I think he's a psychotic lowlife.
Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0579537/quotes?qt=qt0461817

[JMAHH]

Stay focused ngzhang - unlike your competitors.

[loshia]

Ngzang,
When you do start to accept wire payments please drop a note here also. If some mails are lost or whatever we will contact Guo,Yifu. I do not see a reason to start spamming him right now as long order mail says

you'll receive an email with instructions following your orders confirmation regarding the payment.

Thank You!

[Carlton Banks]

People with less money (less than $40, 000) have been unfairly treated by this policy of allowing bulk customers to buy first. Irrefutably.


I would still like to hear what ngzhang has to say about this. He has had ample opportunity to explain thus far. No explanations forthcoming thus far.

Maybe Inaba can lend a hand and tell you what a prolapsing douchetard you are for feeling entitled to first grab at something that most of the people on the forum can't even afford.  Then he'll offer to return your money.

And by Inaba, I mean the world.

Hmmm. I do feel entitled, you're right. To fair treatment.

If the bulk orders hadn't taken precedence, and I was still empty handed, I suppose I would still have been claiming that bulk buyers jumped the queue? I guess in the minds of all those trying to antagonise me in this thread, that I would find something else to complain about. There's no pleasing some trolls I suppose.

[disclaimer201]

People with less money (less than $40, 000) have been unfairly treated by this policy of allowing bulk customers to buy first. Irrefutably.


I would still like to hear what ngzhang has to say about this. He has had ample opportunity to explain thus far. No explanations forthcoming thus far.

Maybe Inaba can lend a hand and tell you what a prolapsing douchetard you are for feeling entitled to first grab at something that most of the people on the forum can't even afford.  Then he'll offer to return your money.

And by Inaba, I mean the world.

Hmmm. I do feel entitled, you're right. To fair treatment.

If the bulk orders hadn't taken precedence, and I was still empty handed, I suppose I would still have been claiming that bulk buyers jumped the queue? I guess in the minds of all those trying to antagonise me in this thread, that I would find something else to complain about. There's no pleasing some trolls I suppose.

Fair treatment would have been nice, but it doesn't work that way. Let bitcoin be mined by the rich(er) for the rich, and everyone else will switch to an altcoin they can afford to mine and that isn't technically inferior. Really love to see how bitcoin will do in the future with losing a broader user base to ltc. I predict single digits for 2013. Good luck and farewell, so called community.

[cedivad]

I hope the 90% of people who where reading these last posts to completely disagree with what was written (bitcoin is for rich, rich will become richer, skipping the queue with large orders was unfair, etc).

[ngzhang]

some information updates:

4, outside China payment inquire, please contact :

 yifu.guo@avalon-asic.com  (notice the mail address is changed)
  
5, we need some time (approx. a few days) to deal with present orders. some necessary formalities also need some time. the wire-payment confirm mail will send a few days later.

6, the second wave is planned around this weekend. the exact time be given later.

about the inrush order mails (to me or to Yifu ), we will notify you when we fixed the secondary wave date. we promise.

[Dhomochevsky]

So, do I need to mail you guys if I'm interested in a couple of units and I'll get notified? Or being subscribed to the newsletter is sufficient to be notified?