Avalon batch [2] countdown!

[Bowjob]

Aye! Ten more days till shipping time. Let's add more pillars to the BTC network... and get rewarded in doing so. I leave you with this pic, gentlemen.

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[drakness]

Indeed, reason to celebrate, good sir.

Is anyone else waiting to get confirmation from Avalon for a Batch2 purchase? 

Tried to confirm my order by messaging him here, at his request, 6 weeks ago... and created a support ticket 2 weeks ago... both have gone unanswered.

The units were paid for 2 months ago... and besides WalletBit confirming the purchase, via email, at my request... nothing.

Anyone?

[Tehfiend]

WalletBit confirming the purchase

You are good. They have repeatedly said if you got Walletbit confirmation then you are good to go. Hopefully they hire some help soon so their ticket system is no longer a black hole...

[goxed]

Dear Bitsyncom,

Can you please please please just tip us with a one line post when the Batch#2 Avalons leave the factory?? We want to be on top of the situation when they are shipping.

Thanks a lot in Advance,

[Tehfiend]

Has anybody seen any info on when they expect the LAST batch #2 unit will ship? With my luck I assume mine will be last

[creativex]

WalletBit confirming the purchase

You are good. They have repeatedly said if you got Walletbit confirmation then you are good to go. Hopefully they hire some help soon so their ticket system is no longer a black hole...

Yep that's what I got from Yifu, so I stopped bugging him. Trusting them not to ship my batch 2 to Afghanistan.

[GenTarkin]

um he stated in a news update a few weeks ago batch 2 will ship mid / late april and mostly early may.

[Tehfiend]

um he stated in a news update a few weeks ago batch 2 will ship mid / late april and mostly early may.

That news-letter stated "We plan to start shipping majority of batch two orders starting on 15th of April". I'm curious when they plan to FINISH shipping batch #2 i.e. will it take 2 weeks or 4 weeks to finish shipping the entire batch.

[darkip]

I'm wondering whether batch #2 shipping will start on time given there's been no notification to trade-in customers to send their FPGAs and batch #1 shipments are still being finished off.

[Tehfiend]

I'm wondering whether batch #2 shipping will start on time given there's been no notification to trade-in customers to send their FPGAs...

Hmm that is a good point. I guess the trade-in notification will be the first sign of progress on batch #2 and with only 10 days to go, sounds like we might be in for another delay since I would assume they'd need a decent amount of lead time to received all the trade-ins before shipping. Part of the fun with bitcoin is having no idea what your actual position is since everything is constantly up in the air

...batch #1 shipments are still being finished off.

People keep saying this but it's been made clear that the outstanding batch #1 units experienced shipping problems and are being RE-shipped. Batch #1 shipping was completed awhile ago.

[creativex]

um he stated in a news update a few weeks ago batch 2 will ship mid / late april and mostly early may.

Okay captain buzzkill...you may go!

[GenTarkin]

Im fine w/ a delay as long as BFL proportionally is delayed that much longer =P

[creativex]

Im fine w/ a delay as long as BFL proportionally is delayed that much longer =P

I dunno, there's a small skeeeery spike in ASICMiner's hashrate graph today.

BFL? pffft...whatev, bunch of monkeys fvcking footballs over there. My postal worker is scarier.

[Tehfiend]

I dunno, there's a small skeeeery spike in ASICMiner's hashrate graph today.

Could you point to me where you can see ASICMiner's hashrate? I've heard they plan to have 1000Thash/sec by the end of the year :O

[creativex]

I dunno, there's a small skeeeery spike in ASICMiner's hashrate graph today.

Could you point to me where you can see ASICMiner's hashrate? I've heard they plan to have 1000Thash/sec by the end of the year :O

I heard 400000000000000000000000000000Th.

Actually they're hoping to add another 256Th last I heard. 7Th online now another 5Th in chips on hand, 50ish coming this month/early May and 200Th of chips on order, but they're also planning to auction hardware. It was unclear if those chips would come from their most recent 200Th chip order. Anyway some of the guys put up a googledoc here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkPdXsQFT-vIdHRVUjQ5Ql9BQWR6OENLMkhyUktUblE#gid=7

[vvic]

whoa, whoa people! I don't want to ruin your party here, but still not everyone got their avalons in batch 1. So it took them nearly 2 months to ship most of them. You hope batch 2 will be faster? Please state why (no trolling implied, honest)

[Rampion]

whoa, whoa people! I don't want to ruin your party here, but still not everyone got their avalons in batch 1. So it took them nearly 2 months to ship most of them. You hope batch 2 will be faster? Please state why (no trolling implied, honest)

There's no Chinese New Year in the middle

And experience improves operations

[creativex]

whoa, whoa people! I don't want to ruin your party here, but still not everyone got their avalons in batch 1. So it took them nearly 2 months to ship most of them. You hope batch 2 will be faster? Please state why (no trolling implied, honest)

There's no Chinese New Year in the middle

And experience improves operations

+1

...and because:

We plan to start shipping majority of batch two orders starting on 15th of April. Not all the news is bad news however, originally around this period we are suppose to take this time to organize, make some changes and install a brand new SMT line in our facility. This upgrade will effectively double our production capacity, it enable us to put Avalon into the hands of our customer even faster. The new line is currently scheduled to come online during the last week of April. We expect batch two and three to ship much faster than batch one mainly there is no Chinese New Year and we have overcome the problems encountered in shipping batch one.

http://imgur.com/a/KPBTl

Time will tell I guess, but these guys are the only ones to deliver thus far.

[Tehfiend]

I dunno, there's a small skeeeery spike in ASICMiner's hashrate graph today.

Could you point to me where you can see ASICMiner's hashrate? I've heard they plan to have 1000Thash/sec by the end of the year :O

I heard 400000000000000000000000000000Th.

Actually they're hoping to add another 256Th last I heard. 7Th online now another 5Th in chips on hand, 50ish coming this month/early May and 200Th of chips on order, but they're also planning to auction hardware. It was unclear if those chips would come from their most recent 200Th chip order. Anyway some of the guys put up a googledoc here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkPdXsQFT-vIdHRVUjQ5Ql9BQWR6OENLMkhyUktUblE#gid=7

Thanks!

[Bogart]

I'm wondering whether batch #2 shipping will start on time given there's been no notification to trade-in customers to send their FPGAs...

Hmm that is a good point. I guess the trade-in notification will be the first sign of progress on batch #2 and with only 10 days to go...

Speaking of this, what do you suppose would be a good way to ship one rapidly into China?  I know DHL is good for shipping *from* China *into* the US...Do you suppose they are an equally good choice going in the other direction?