ANTMINER S7 is available at bitmaintech.com with 4.86TH/s, 0.25J/GH

[Biodom]

Guess it's time for some Black Label and try to forget about the $$$ sitting at a chinese company.  

I am a red wine guy, but if it is time for something stronger, then good vodka would be my first choice  .

[thedreamer]

Guess it's time for some Black Label and try to forget about the $$$ sitting at a chinese company.  

I am a red wine guy, but if it is time for something stronger, then good vodka would be my first choice  .

In.. muuthurrr rahhssha, voodkaah driinks yooo..

[grn]

Guess it's time for some Black Label and try to forget about the $$$ sitting at a chinese company.  

I am a red wine guy, but if it is time for something stronger, then good vodka would be my first choice  .

mmmmmm Vino Rosso

[UfoRia]

This might just be me projecting, but it sure feels like they baked the national holiday into their shipping schedule. They just didn't tell anyone about it up front.

It was only right before the golden week holiday that they indicated that there would be a company shut down, guaranteeing that those whose orders had not yet shipped would be delayed to the maximum period.

None of us knew that the actual possible shipping window was effectively a week shorter than the indicated dates. They did a terrible job of setting customer expectations in this regard.

Further, there's a bunch of us that feel screwed by what process they use to prioritize shipping. They say it's in the order of payment, but there's anecdotal evidence that they prefer bitcoin transactions over wire transfers and they prefer big customers like data centers over individuals. In the end, shipping order feels arbitrary and greed driven rather than consistent, reasonable, or fair.

I really miss Spondoolies. That's a company that knows how to communicate. I wish I kept that note that came with my SP20E. They made more of an effort to connect with me than Bitmain ever did. Unfortunately there's no real competition for Bitmain this time around...

What's really too bad is that S7 product seems very good on balance. The real problem here is process and communication. All they had to do was schedule things so that people didn't feel screwed by their holidays. Instead they padded their schedule and smugly tell us that they're not officially late yet. Wow.

I guess I need to stop bitching and find some whiskey. That was probably be best suggestion so far for dealing with this nonsense...

Heh, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Not a chance in hell they are going to hit their ship dates for batch one. Based on the thread I don't think they even made it to September orders yet, but large orders were filled ahead of individual orders.

My email thread about compensation....
   
5:27 PM (3 hours ago)

to info@bitmaintech.com

You have a National Holiday all the way through the 8th, so if you don't ship it by the 10th how will we be compensated?


On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:34 AM, info <info@bitmaintech.com> wrote:
Hi,
Our announced shipment date is as below, we'll be sure to arrange it ASAP once available.

Shipping may start between Sept. 21 ~ 30 (if shipped out 10 days later than it, it won't be considered as delay ).

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 30, 2015, at 10:00 PM, "ME" wrote:

Will we be compensated since it will be outside of the delay window before a good portion of us receive our miners?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:35 AM, info <info@bitmaintech.com> wrote:
Hi,
Sorry, we're having holiday now and miners will be shipped out after we're back to work around Oct. 9.
Please wait for update.
Thanks

Sent from my iPad

[UfoRia]

I believe I am going to have a beer and try and stop forum refreshing...

[UfoRia]

I wish we had that kind of holiday schedule in the US....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(China)

On December 16, 2007, China’s official news agency said the Chinese population is to have a further three national holidays and lose only one of its golden weeks, the May Day holiday, according to the calendar reform that the Government has approved. May Day itself has now become a one-day holiday. Three traditional festivals—Tomb-Sweeping Day (Qingming Festival), Dragon-boat Festival and Mid Autumn Festival—are added to the list of public holidays. With this revision of the labour calendar, the Chinese government aims to recover the customs associated with traditional festivals and balance tourist demand during the weeks of holidays, according to the Xinhua News Agency. In practice, the new calendar, which came into force on January 1, 2008, will increase national holidays from 10 to 11 days. A spokesperson for the National Commission for Development and Reform said that the new plan would ratify Chinese traditions, better distribute holidays and prevent the “overcrowding” of the “golden weeks” when more people travel during the new holidays and during the periods of paid holidays.

What an interesting culture from thousands of years of history.


Ufo

[Mr.paul]

It is out of order on main site?

Batch 1 is but you can get batch 2 or 3 for sale

Or you can buy my Batch 1 for what I paid as I am not sure I want it anymore.

I am starting to get that same feeling. We paid a premium for a product that has missed its original shipping window (not considering their additional 10 day window) just to have the company go on vacation and not respond to support tickets but yet they have the time to post two additional batches for sale at a lesser price...

Yup.. agree with that. i think all don't brother the batch 2 and 3 until the batch 1 is shipment.

[aurel57]

It is out of order on main site?

Batch 1 is but you can get batch 2 or 3 for sale

Or you can buy my Batch 1 for what I paid as I am not sure I want it anymore.

I am starting to get that same feeling. We paid a premium for a product that has missed its original shipping window (not considering their additional 10 day window) just to have the company go on vacation and not respond to support tickets but yet they have the time to post two additional batches for sale at a lesser price...

Agree...we will see what happens after Oct 10th now.

[ATCkit]

Did anyone who order on the 3rd day of sales (or later) and paid in BTC get their miners?

[UfoRia]

Did anyone who order on the 3rd day of sales (or later) and paid in BTC get their miners?

I don't remember seeing anyone in September getting their orders, but some large orders from data centers got their September orders filled first. Several people got there August orders, which stopped right around the last day of August. No one that got theirs mentioned if they wired or btc'ed,


Ufo

[UfoRia]

Yup.. agree with that. i think all don't brother the batch 2 and 3 until the batch 1 is shipment.

Screw that, they should price adjust batch 1 for screwing us up against a one week holiday!!

[VirosaGITS]

Yup.. agree with that. i think all don't brother the batch 2 and 3 until the batch 1 is shipment.

Screw that, they should price adjust batch 1 for screwing us up against a one week holiday!!

They will most likely address this issue with coupon or a small refund to cover the delay. Bitmain always has respected their written engagement and i don't think its necessary to doubt them at the moment. Still i understand the frustration, i personally experienced not so fast delay before what i bought was shipped as well.

[biejo01]

have orders starting Sept 3 and then sprinkled through Sept
No miners yet
Guy on nicehash westhash running nine s7's, look smooth. He is at 120Ths now. Good job.

[padrino]

have orders starting Sept 3 and then sprinkled through Sept
No miners yet
Guy on nicehash westhash running nine s7's, look smooth. He is at 120Ths now. Good job.

That 120Th must be augmented with other hardware?

[Dr Charles]

have orders starting Sept 3 and then sprinkled through Sept
No miners yet
Guy on nicehash westhash running nine s7's, look smooth. He is at 120Ths now. Good job.

That 120Th must be augmented with other hardware?

must be, at least ~76 Th worth of other hardware I would assume

[wolfen]

I see it.

https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=miners&a=1&addr=3M2NFXfJ75UqB4pka17gyJfG9zztKBKNFt&l=1

Looks like hashrate is tapering off.
Number 8 is down (towards the bottom)
Appears to be a mix of s4 and s5 miners as well.

[wolfen]

Will be using 3 RM1000 PSU's for two s7's.
Each board is 400 watts, so each PSU will supply 800 watts providing power for two boards each.
Have a pair of s3's in my basement running with one RM1000, each s3 pulls 400 watts.
800 watts is enough to spin the RM1000 fan slowly. Nice and quiet.
Also have a few Bitmain 1600 watt PSU's to test with.
Will be nice to get some s7's when they decide to ship.

Interesting to watch someone else's s7's running on nicehash USA
Get a good feel for poolside hashrate.
I'm sure they will not be as stable as s5's with the amount of chips
on the s7 and the larger amount of power and cables.
A bit of variance to be expected.

Half the power for the same hashrate.
One quarter the space.

[philipma1957]

I was going to order a third unit but when I shipped off one of the two I had I started to underhash.

So after figuring out my under hash issue and posting the fix for it here :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1196671.0

BTW the fix has helped more then a few people.
I went back to my order and it had expired and bitmaintech stripped me of the coupon.
So I now can't use the coupon. To do an order for a third machine.
So I spent a few days fixing the problem was nice enough to post how to fix it.
And I don't have use of my third coupon to donate it or to order.

Would be nice of them to give me  a replacement coupon. as their under hash issue caused me grief.  Which I fixed for them.


Screen shot here.  I did send a request but with holidays no reply

[AriesIV10]

I was going to order a third unit but when I shipped off one of the two I had I started to underhash.

So after figuring out my under hash issue and posting the fix for it here :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1196671.0

BTW the fix has helped more then a few people.
I went back to my order and it had expired and bitmaintech stripped me of the coupon.
So I now can't use the coupon. To do an order for a third machine.
So I spent a few days fixing the problem was nice enough to post how to fix it.
And I don't have use of my third coupon to donate it or to order.

Would be nice of them to give me  a replacement coupon. as their under hash issue caused me grief.  Which I fixed for them.


Screen shot here.  I did send a request but with holidays no reply

Thank you so much for posting this information!  Although this is still providing many people a solution, for me it did not cure my situation.  I am hoping that after the holiday I will be able to resolve my low hash rate. 

Thanks Again for your sharing!!!!

[philipma1957]

I was going to order a third unit but when I shipped off one of the two I had I started to underhash.

So after figuring out my under hash issue and posting the fix for it here :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1196671.0

BTW the fix has helped more then a few people.
I went back to my order and it had expired and bitmaintech stripped me of the coupon.
So I now can't use the coupon. To do an order for a third machine.
So I spent a few days fixing the problem was nice enough to post how to fix it.
And I don't have use of my third coupon to donate it or to order.

Would be nice of them to give me  a replacement coupon. as their under hash issue caused me grief.  Which I fixed for them.


Screen shot here.  I did send a request but with holidays no reply

Thank you so much for posting this information!  Although this is still providing many people a solution, for me it did not cure my situation.  I am hoping that after the holiday I will be able to resolve my low hash rate. 

Thanks Again for your sharing!!!!

yeah the problem fix works for some of us not all.  I sometimes had issue with my s-3's

Annoying as it delayed my order for the third unit so long I am now short the coupon.

Maybe they will send me a coupon after the holiday.