[RUN 2 CLOSED][SIDEHACK STICK]GekkoScience Compac Official sales thread

[CrazyGuy]

To whoever put up some Compacs on Amazon and then gave my personal email address to a customer so he could spam me with "I'm an idiot, please hold my hand" help requests", from multiple email addresses, with read receipts - screw you, seriously.

Also to the person who put these down on an Amazon listing as imported from China, screw you too. Unless you're the same guy, in which case screw you forever. Don't expect any help from me next time you want anything.

What a horribly shitty thing to do... When reselling a product with a markup on Amazon, Ebay or other, you should be well aware that you will need to work to earn that markup. That work includes dealing directly with the sometimes less informed or possibly idiotic shoppers that frequent those sites. If sidehack wanted to deal with them, he would be selling there himself.

[sidehack]

Yeah, I had enough of idiot customers when I did refurb for two years. That kinda burned me out on being nice to people. The guy who left me a negative feedback because he was dissatisfied with the model he chose, and then left a positive review of it in the listing saying the specific object he bought from me was just fine - stupid. The person who left a neutral feedback for a sale which was cancelled before shipment, probably not realizing that neutral feedbacks still hurt the seller rating and it's foolish to leave feedback for a transaction which, with a bit better planning on her part, wouldn't have even happened - stupid. The guy who emailed me three years after he bought something, because it stopped working right within a couple weeks and instead of telling me about it within the warranty period, he spent a year determining the problem was not his GPU, a year sidelining it, and a year apparently with his thumb up his butt, then complained that if I didn't make things right he'd, as some kind of DJ (who also works in IT, as if telling me this would explain his technical ineptitude), slam the side of my business which hadn't existed for almost two years to his mass following of jackoff teenagers and make me rue the day - stupid. And let's not forget the minimum three customers per week who submitted below-cost single-unit offers on eBay despite the listing saying, in big letters near the top, that I was already selling at minimum margin, the single-unit price is not negotiable, and best offers will only be considered as a means of giving shipping discounts for multiple-unit orders. And then all three of those idiots counter-offering my well-justified outright denial. Idiots. But my personal favorite has to be the jerk who bought a monitor, asked me for a speaker bar as well, sent his ten bucks to the eBay internal customer communications email pseudo-address (despite PayPal giving a warning, when this happens, that "you are deliberately sending money to an account which does not exist, continue anyway?") instead of where I told him to send it, didn't say a word to me about it, and then filed a claim with eBay when he didn't receive his speaker bar (because I don't ship things that aren't paid for) that the item received was not as advertised - despite having received exactly what was in the listing and side deals aren't covered under eBay buyer protection especially when the customer botches them. That one took me most of a week to get the guy to pull his head out of his butt and figure out what he'd done wrong. So yeah, I give up. I really like the idea of getting stuff to people without a lot of middlemen and markup, but I really don't have the patience to deal with cheapskates, jackasses and the wilfully ignorant.

Turns out today's offender was buying a bitshopper stick from Amazon Germany, and somehow tracked me down (via multiple hops) through my website from that listing instead of, you know, asking the actual seller which can be done from the listing page directly. I love it when people do extra work for which the only productive aim seems to be annoying everyone involved.

[Mikestang]

Which is why Clerks continues to be one of the greatest movies ever made, and why in my career I don't have customers, I have clients.

[sidehack]

Yeah, I don't miss that. The worst days when I worked at a place that took walk-in customers was when I had to deal with walk-in customers. One day in particular, the guy up front (boss and owner of the business) was hiding upstairs with the secretary (fresh out of high school and 14 years his junior) doing who knows what so I was the only person actually working until early afternoon. Which was great since it was an unusually busy day for walk-ins, and especially great when people came in or called specifically looking for him, because I couldn't give them a good excuse and might have gotten fired if I told 'em he was too busy stickin' it to his barely-legal and fairly naive girlfriend in the back room to actually do his job. I told him the next time that happened I was just gonna lock the doors and turn the lights off so if he wanted any kind of revenue from the entire front half of his business he needed to do his job and let me do mine.

As a happy epilogue, the owner closed the doors the day after she quit, then she kicked him to the curb for being a douchebag and last year got married to a decent fellow. Boss might be dead in a ditch somewhere for all I know, which is okay. He doesn't owe me money anymore. And now I have no boss and no walk-in customers asking me stupid questions all the time, so that's pretty great. And dudes like CrazyGuy and Holyscott are eating most of the annoying customer coefficient, which is even better.

[baazju]

Yeah, by the time I'd have gotten to it was about the time it should have been delivered. The information I needed to connect the tracking number on the post office receipt to your email address is all at the shop, and I didn't get to the shop until Monday, and it should have arrived Monday or Tuesday.

Well I am out 30 compac sticks. It sucks because if I had that tracking number I would have made sure to be around to receive the package as I was pretty excited about it. Either the package was stolen or USPS delivered it to the wrong site. I talked with USPS and they basically said because there was no insurance or signature required there is nothing they can do. Not going to lie I am pretty upset about this.

[sidehack]

Yeah me too. I've had one international package that needed tracked down, but have had no problems with domestics. I don't put additional insurance on domestic deliveries unless the buyer requires it.

There's really nothing else I can do for you right now, but if you give me a bit of time and it still isn't resolved by the post office I'll see what I can do about making it up with other goods and services.

[kipper01]

Yeah, by the time I'd have gotten to it was about the time it should have been delivered. The information I needed to connect the tracking number on the post office receipt to your email address is all at the shop, and I didn't get to the shop until Monday, and it should have arrived Monday or Tuesday.

Well I am out 30 compac sticks. It sucks because if I had that tracking number I would have made sure to be around to receive the package as I was pretty excited about it. Either the package was stolen or USPS delivered it to the wrong site. I talked with USPS and they basically said because there was no insurance or signature required there is nothing they can do. Not going to lie I am pretty upset about this.

Baazu,
I'll put my s7 hosted by sidehack solo on CK pool for 24 hours.  If it hits we will split it 3 ways...myself, you and sidehack.  Hopefully his sticks find you.
http://solo.ckpool.org/workers/12k7G6BcaoNBKVEUKSaEviWqDmksSRHQLt
(running above address for 24 Hours)


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[philipma1957]

Yeah, by the time I'd have gotten to it was about the time it should have been delivered. The information I needed to connect the tracking number on the post office receipt to your email address is all at the shop, and I didn't get to the shop until Monday, and it should have arrived Monday or Tuesday.

Well I am out 30 compac sticks. It sucks because if I had that tracking number I would have made sure to be around to receive the package as I was pretty excited about it. Either the package was stolen or USPS delivered it to the wrong site. I talked with USPS and they basically said because there was no insurance or signature required there is nothing they can do. Not going to lie I am pretty upset about this.

Tell them you want to make an official complaint that it was stolen .

It is a matter of principal and that reporting the theft to them and the police whatever police handle the report is what you would like to do.
Go in person be nice be nicer be nicest.


They sticks cost you more then 500 usd. So they have to do the paper work if you insist.

Why bother you would be stunned that being really calm relaxed and super cool to them about making the report often the item turns up.

Insist that you want to know which postman worked that day and what he recalls about the shipment.

When in doubt ask for a complete set of rules and forms to report the theft.

[aarons6]

i was wondering if you got the parts needed to ship the final orders out, i think mine might have been one of those..
its been a couple weeks since you posted about it.

[sidehack]

Parts are now inbound and I'll be starting on the next bit probably middle of this week. The first order is a 100-unit for resale, so the rest of small orders won't hit until after that's ready which puts them at next week. Sorry, I've been pretty busy lately.

[aarons6]

Parts are now inbound and I'll be starting on the next bit probably middle of this week. The first order is a 100-unit for resale, so the rest of small orders won't hit until after that's ready which puts them at next week. Sorry, I've been pretty busy lately.

sweet.. thanks.

[baazju]

Yeah, by the time I'd have gotten to it was about the time it should have been delivered. The information I needed to connect the tracking number on the post office receipt to your email address is all at the shop, and I didn't get to the shop until Monday, and it should have arrived Monday or Tuesday.

Well I am out 30 compac sticks. It sucks because if I had that tracking number I would have made sure to be around to receive the package as I was pretty excited about it. Either the package was stolen or USPS delivered it to the wrong site. I talked with USPS and they basically said because there was no insurance or signature required there is nothing they can do. Not going to lie I am pretty upset about this.

Tell them you want to make an official complaint that it was stolen .

It is a matter of principal and that reporting the theft to them and the police whatever police handle the report is what you would like to do.
Go in person be nice be nicer be nicest.


They sticks cost you more then 500 usd. So they have to do the paper work if you insist.

Why bother you would be stunned that being really calm relaxed and super cool to them about making the report often the item turns up.

Insist that you want to know which postman worked that day and what he recalls about the shipment.

When in doubt ask for a complete set of rules and forms to report the theft.

I did make an official complaint with the USPS. I know the lady that delivers packages for USPS to my apartment very well. I order A LOT of packages. She double checked and she was working and delivered the package that day. She even has the GPS tracking on her scanner that shows that she physically was at my door step to deliver the package.

So it is clear that it was stolen. My apartment complex was notified and I filed a report.

Beyond calling the police, which would just result in a police report, there isn't much else I can do.

I am going to be setting up a security camera for my front door, as I get a lot of expensive packages and don't really want to deal with another stolen package.
Honestly it is not sidehack's fault in anyway, and I don't want to come off as implying that. He obviously did nothing wrong here. Even USPS delivered the package, so I can't really fault them. Just some asshole had to come and steal it.

Pretty sad as I had sold my S7 and other gear and was just planning to do small-time mining as my new job takes up most of my free time. Looks like I'll be getting out altogether now.

[aarons6]

Yeah, by the time I'd have gotten to it was about the time it should have been delivered. The information I needed to connect the tracking number on the post office receipt to your email address is all at the shop, and I didn't get to the shop until Monday, and it should have arrived Monday or Tuesday.

Well I am out 30 compac sticks. It sucks because if I had that tracking number I would have made sure to be around to receive the package as I was pretty excited about it. Either the package was stolen or USPS delivered it to the wrong site. I talked with USPS and they basically said because there was no insurance or signature required there is nothing they can do. Not going to lie I am pretty upset about this.

Tell them you want to make an official complaint that it was stolen .

It is a matter of principal and that reporting the theft to them and the police whatever police handle the report is what you would like to do.
Go in person be nice be nicer be nicest.


They sticks cost you more then 500 usd. So they have to do the paper work if you insist.

Why bother you would be stunned that being really calm relaxed and super cool to them about making the report often the item turns up.

Insist that you want to know which postman worked that day and what he recalls about the shipment.

When in doubt ask for a complete set of rules and forms to report the theft.

I did make an official complaint with the USPS. I know the lady that delivers packages for USPS to my apartment very well. I order A LOT of packages. She double checked and she was working and delivered the package that day. She even has the GPS tracking on her scanner that shows that she physically was at my door step to deliver the package.

So it is clear that it was stolen. My apartment complex was notified and I filed a report.

Beyond calling the police, which would just result in a police report, there isn't much else I can do.

I am going to be setting up a security camera for my front door, as I get a lot of expensive packages and don't really want to deal with another stolen package.
Honestly it is not sidehack's fault in anyway, and I don't want to come off as implying that. He obviously did nothing wrong here. Even USPS delivered the package, so I can't really fault them. Just some asshole had to come and steal it.

Pretty sad as I had sold my S7 and other gear and was just planning to do small-time mining as my new job takes up most of my free time. Looks like I'll be getting out altogether now.

this guy will be easy to catch.. as im 100% sure he lives close enough by to see the mail man drop off the package..

just get a camera.. or two.. and set them up.. and mail yourself a few boxes.

[sidehack]

Well, it is kinda my fault. Like you said, if you'd had tracking to know it was coming in on such and such day you could have been there to meet it.

[notlist3d]

Yeah, by the time I'd have gotten to it was about the time it should have been delivered. The information I needed to connect the tracking number on the post office receipt to your email address is all at the shop, and I didn't get to the shop until Monday, and it should have arrived Monday or Tuesday.

Well I am out 30 compac sticks. It sucks because if I had that tracking number I would have made sure to be around to receive the package as I was pretty excited about it. Either the package was stolen or USPS delivered it to the wrong site. I talked with USPS and they basically said because there was no insurance or signature required there is nothing they can do. Not going to lie I am pretty upset about this.

Tell them you want to make an official complaint that it was stolen .

It is a matter of principal and that reporting the theft to them and the police whatever police handle the report is what you would like to do.
Go in person be nice be nicer be nicest.


They sticks cost you more then 500 usd. So they have to do the paper work if you insist.

Why bother you would be stunned that being really calm relaxed and super cool to them about making the report often the item turns up.

Insist that you want to know which postman worked that day and what he recalls about the shipment.

When in doubt ask for a complete set of rules and forms to report the theft.

I did make an official complaint with the USPS. I know the lady that delivers packages for USPS to my apartment very well. I order A LOT of packages. She double checked and she was working and delivered the package that day. She even has the GPS tracking on her scanner that shows that she physically was at my door step to deliver the package.

So it is clear that it was stolen. My apartment complex was notified and I filed a report.

Beyond calling the police, which would just result in a police report, there isn't much else I can do.

I am going to be setting up a security camera for my front door, as I get a lot of expensive packages and don't really want to deal with another stolen package.
Honestly it is not sidehack's fault in anyway, and I don't want to come off as implying that. He obviously did nothing wrong here. Even USPS delivered the package, so I can't really fault them. Just some asshole had to come and steal it.

Pretty sad as I had sold my S7 and other gear and was just planning to do small-time mining as my new job takes up most of my free time. Looks like I'll be getting out altogether now.

this guy will be easy to catch.. as im 100% sure he lives close enough by to see the mail man drop off the package..

just get a camera.. or two.. and set them up.. and mail yourself a few boxes.

I love my security camera's there are a lot of good brands and the night vision is great if you go for a good quality camera.  After you set up your system aarons6 is right I would get some big amazon boxes and put them out every few day's and see if you get a bite.  Hopefully it was a sad and one time thing... but if not a big amazon box will grab interest.

Also another trick is security company signs.  I do have a security alarm system for my house and miners.  They are so effective most alarm companies have a limit you can order per year.  But if you get a lot of packages I would get a sign and put it by doorstep.  I think they are surprisingly effective.

[baazju]

Well, it is kinda my fault. Like you said, if you'd had tracking to know it was coming in on such and such day you could have been there to meet it.

Maybe. But honestly I can't fault you for something a criminal did.

[Biodom]

Sad story, but I kind of wonder what the "criminal" would do with this?
It's not that most of us are surrounded by people who mine bitcoin, but you never know.
Probably opened the box and tossed it out, unfortunately.

[sidehack]

Parts have arrived. I will start building the remainder of Compacs as soon as I get the community miner prototype board finished, probably tomorrow or Friday. Most orders should be shipped out next week.

[sidehack]

Shipping more Compacs today. The rest of individual orders should go out today or Tuesday.

I will be doing another batch. However, HOWEVER, it's a bulk batch direct to resellers. So you'll have to hit up ASICPuppy, HolyBitcoin and BitcoinWare if you're gonna want some.

[sidehack]

The last BM1384 Compacs [which aren't a big bulk order] from Run 2 are going out today (yes, I know I said they'd be shipped yesterday but I had a bunch of other stuff and forgot to go by the post office). Anyone who has not yet received their sticks yet, and who doesn't get a tracking number from me this afternoon, let me know.