Thoughts on this guy? Or alternatives? Regarding FPGAs

[mokahless]

https://www.bitmit.net/en/item/19659-x6500-bitcoin-miners-working-100-400mh-s-for-less-than-20w

So this is the last guy on bitmit selling an x6500 and willing to ship to Canada. He has no feedback but does escrow, so there shouldn't be a problem, right? Thoughts?

Does anyone have any alternative ideas?

I am interested in purchasing a spartan 6 based FPGA as inexpensively as possible. I don't expect to make money back.
I started mining after the summer of 2011 with GPUs and never got into FPGAs. I did dabble with CPUs though. I'm just interested in getting an FPGA and running it because I don't want to have missed some experience with a generation of Bitcoin hardware, now that I am a more dedicated miner. I enjoy the whole hardware mining process.

So if anyone has any feedback and thinks this guy is worth a shot or if anyone on the forums is willing to sell me an FPGA like icarus or an x6500, please let me know. I'm not looking to spend huge so I am hoping for a board with only one or two chips. Hopefully for less than 4BTC but that might be optimistic.

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[mjester93]

Have you messaged the guy? If you use escrow and delivery confirmation (idk what it's called in Canada) you should be fine.

[Bogart]

Too bad it's almost 1 BTC for shipping outside of Germany.

[mokahless]

Yeah it brings it to ~300CAD after shipping. I haven't messaged him because I can't seem to find a way to on the bitmit site.

I stand at: I don't trust him, but if it is painless to get my money back if he doesn't deliver, then I will want to try anyway.

[mjester93]

Yeah it brings it to ~300CAD after shipping. I haven't messaged him because I can't seem to find a way to on the bitmit site.

I stand at: I don't trust him, but if it is painless to get my money back if he doesn't deliver, then I will want to try anyway.

Have you tried to create a WTB thread? That's how I got my X6500.

[mokahless]

Yeah. Actually just today. Hoping for something in Canada to save on shipping. I've been looking at all the WTS threads and they all seem old or already sold.