Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[ASIC-K]

Guys, I will have 1 module for sale once it arrives. I just realized that I I can only fit 2 more, not 3.

wanna sell it to me, since knc fucked me over?

Mate how did you get screwed over when x amount more had the ability to purchase beyond what was allocated and we couldn't even get back into the system to stop it for an entire 2 minutes?

he didn't have enough btcs at the moment, if I understood correctly from his previous posts

there were two issues, the bit pay button fucked up didn't work for me, and i didn't have the btc for the first 5-10 mins, i figured i got my order in so i went into my account hoping the bit pay issue was resolved and it never was. so i called and got the all sold out answer.

[DPoS]

should have only allocated 200 order spots, not this who pays first bullcrap. also, when an order system screws up, the company usually makes good on it. its nothing personal orama, but i know a bunch of people feel the same way as me here. just poorly handled, that all. upgrades were even visible for longer than 20 minutes.

You failed ok?

Once you get the bitpay window up it give you like 15mins to dick around.. so of course as soon as you had it in your cart you click pay to get to bitpay screen as fast as possible then you can relax and send your bitcoins (and no you dont need to use the bitpay button, just send coins to the address)

If you didn't get a pay button in your cart then you were slow.. maybe your clock is off, were you logged in and refreshing every half second like the rest of us?

[ASIC-K]

should have only allocated 200 order spots, not this who pays first bullcrap. also, when an order system screws up, the company usually makes good on it. its nothing personal orama, but i know a bunch of people feel the same way as me here. just poorly handled, that all. upgrades were even visible for longer than 20 minutes.

You failed ok?

Once you get the bitpay window up it give you like 15mins to dick around.. so of course as soon as you had it in your cart you click pay to get to bitpay screen as fast as possible then you can relax and send your bitcoins

If you didn't get a pay button in your cart then you were slow.. maybe your clock is off, were you logged in and refreshing every half second like the rest of us?

man, i placed my order literally at 8am as it popped up, i was refreshing every 5 seconds from 755am. the bit pay button brought up a pop up window that 404 errored on me but i still had my order, so i waited the 10 mins for my btc to come in and went back to pay.....how is this my fault.

[opentoe]

O'rama, when do these ship??

They are expected to ship end of this week.

I wonder why they inflated the shipping charge. It couldn't of been to squeeze as much money out of us as they could, no? These are thin PCB's...weigh ounces. No heatsink fan and just a couple of cables everything will be under 1LB. I thought companies weren't allowed to over inflate shipping charges anymore. No regulation here.

[monsieur]

should have only allocated 200 order spots, not this who pays first bullcrap. also, when an order system screws up, the company usually makes good on it. its nothing personal orama, but i know a bunch of people feel the same way as me here. just poorly handled, that all. upgrades were even visible for longer than 20 minutes.

You failed ok?

Once you get the bitpay window up it give you like 15mins to dick around.. so of course as soon as you had it in your cart you click pay to get to bitpay screen as fast as possible then you can relax and send your bitcoins

If you didn't get a pay button in your cart then you were slow.. maybe your clock is off, were you logged in and refreshing every half second like the rest of us?

man, i placed my order literally at 8am as it popped up, i was refreshing every 5 seconds from 755am. the bit pay button brought up a pop up window that 404 errored on me but i still had my order, so i waited the 10 mins for my btc to come in and went back to pay.....how is this my fault.

Don't worry about it too much. It's not like these boards will make people rich. Maybe it will mine slightly over it's cost, but just marginally.

[markm]

Since it has been admitted they can make more of the boards, maybe it would be useful to follow up with all the people who bought Mercurys and Saturns and didn't buy upgrade units yet whether they think they will be someday and if so some general idea as to when, so that if it turns out there are a whole lot of Mercury and Saturn owners out there who were planning on eventually upgrading the making of some more boards could be scheduled in line with the kind of timeframes they are thinking of?

It seems likely that when making their initial purchase decision whether to buy a Jupiter right away or buy a Mercury or Saturn and upgrade later different people probably had quite different kinds of timeframes in mind as to when they would upgrade and even in how many upgrade steps they would do their upgrades.

Maybe something like do some "bespoke" runs later, give Mercury and Saturn owners a couple more chances to upgrade, not as rush things like this but bespoke, like we are planning a run of upgrades for such and such a date, anyone who wants one place an order, the next such run won't be until such and such a date. Maybe allow three such runs since people with Mercury units might very well have bought them planning to do three separate upgrades to them, one module at a time... Though one could maybe at least hope they had planned to do all of those before 20 or 16 nano tech made this 28 nm stuff totally obsolete.

-MarkM-

[Micky25]

whew - this whole thing starts to feel like a pool filled with piranhas

[opentoe]

And now Arctic I30 are gone from NewEgg  

lol.

Still plenty more in stock at Amazon UK and Amazon US


Arctic Cooling Freezer i30 CPU Cooler (Amazon UK)

Arctic Cooling Freezer i30 CPU Cooler (Amazon US)

Superbiiz has them for $32.99 USD. That's where I bought mine originally.

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=FAN-I30&title=ARCTIC-Freezer-I30-120mm-CPU-Fan-For-Intel-Socket-2011-1155-1156

[opentoe]

I will ask again, how do you fasten these without the metal bar?

You have to use the metal bar. These are being custom installed so all the mounting hardware that comes with it is useless.

[ASIC-K]

I will ask again, how do you fasten these without the metal bar?

You have to use the metal bar. These are being custom installed so all the mounting hardware that comes with it is useless.

+1, the mounting stuff won't be used. use the metal bar knc will ship with the module. very simple but effective.

[DPoS]

man, i placed my order literally at 8am as it popped up, i was refreshing every 5 seconds from 755am. the bit pay button brought up a pop up window that 404 errored on me but i still had my order, so i waited the 10 mins for my btc to come in and went back to pay.....how is this my fault.

You didn't have your BTC ready?

Main reason I bought 2 was to pry myself from trading non-stop on BTCe..  if my order didn't go through I would just be happy trading that $2000 back and forth

Just go to plan B... I hear LTC is going to the Moon, jump in while you can

[augustocroppo]

There's no need for that, I can understand the frustration, and he's been cool, he's wound up, and trolls like Croppo are egging him on.

Trolls like me?

This is common sense and I am surprised that instead to you offer him apologies, you are trying to produce excuse after excuse to not blame KnCminer for their own incompetence to manages the sales of mere 200 electronic boards.

[WastedLTC]

Can someone please cancel one of your upgrade units so they can attach it back to my hosted miner?   Unit went down around the time of the sale.

[markm]

man, i placed my order literally at 8am as it popped up, i was refreshing every 5 seconds from 755am. the bit pay button brought up a pop up window that 404 errored on me but i still had my order, so i waited the 10 mins for my btc to come in and went back to pay.....how is this my fault.

You didn't have your BTC ready?

Main reason I bought 2 was to pry myself from trading non-stop on BTCe..  if my order didn't go through I would just be happy trading that $2000 back and forth

Just go to plan B

Just holding bitcoins is a pretty good plan B. I had pretty much planned not to buy a November order and wasn't even all that sure I even wanted to upgrade quite so soon until all the hype - the people all so eager to get an upgrade - excitement infected me. Before all that I had thought I was pretty sure I should resist so now I just have to find that mindset again and be glad that fate helped me resist.

-MarkM-

[Bogart]

I agree that the shipping charge is too high.  I paid $206.30 to ship 3 modules to the US.  Modules whose heatsinks are not included "to save on shipping."

In contrast, I only paid $136.80 for shipping on my November Jupiter.  That's 4 modules with heatsinks, the case, and everything else.

I paid it, of course, not wanting to miss out.

Still I hope they offer to refund some of that.  If they wanted to charge more they should have just priced the modules higher rather than calling it a shipping charge, when it obviously will not cost them anywhere near that amount.

I can believe it was an honest mistake.  They may have meant to charge $68.77 per order, and ended up charging $68.77 per board or something.

(This sale surely went more smoothly than any of the Avalon sale launches.  I had to sit trying for 30+ minutes each time ordering those, hoping the orders went through as the site and payment processor continued to fall over.)

[ASIC-K]

I agree that the shipping charge is too high.  I paid $206.30 to ship 3 modules to the US.  Modules whose heatsinks are not included "to save on shipping."

In contrast, I only paid $136.80 for shipping on my November Jupiter.  That's 4 modules with heatsinks, the case, and everything else.

I paid it, of course, not wanting to miss out.

Still I hope they offer to refund some of that.  If they wanted to charge more they should have just priced the modules higher rather than calling it a shipping charge, when it obviously will not cost them anywhere near that amount.

I can believe it was an honest mistake.  They may have meant to charge $68.77 per order, and ended up charging $68.77 per board or something.

(This sale surely went more smoothly than any of the Avalon sale launches.  I had to sit trying for 30+ minutes each time ordering those, hoping the orders went through as the site and payment processor continued to fall over.)

yeah the shipping cost was reaaaallly high for such a small package....not sure how that happened. it must have been an error. you're right, a full mercury unit cost me like 130 bucks. lol

[the-skeptic]

So no news about those of us who successfully completed transactions for modules but weren't given shipping options?
Here's my payment for $1900:

https://blockchain.info/address/4a3f12727fc67aa040a47c0b1e2d39fc1fb63bfc

I will gladly arrange for pickup if I can have and address and pickup date for FedEx.

-Dana

[CYPER]

I agree with ASIC-K that this sale was poorly organized and definitely not in the best interest of KNC customers.

Any ticket selling website that I've used works in the following way: there is a stock availability of n units. A customer puts x units in his cart, so the unit availability changes to n-x and that customer has a set number of minutes to complete the transaction. If he doesn't then the units get added back to the total availability.

But no, they used first paid, first served, which creates an unnecessary influx of customers, thus bandwidth to the Payment processor that can bring any website to its knees.

[Bargraphics]

[xyzzy099]

+1 ROFL