BFL is shipping

[huangxin]

Place an order now, when can receive？
And use BTC payment, 10 minutes is enough?

If you order now, you might receive something by early 2014. Unlikely before Christmas of this year.

Really ? I submited a ticket, asking a shipping estimate if I were to order now.
End of july was the answer.

That's like... Mmmmh.... Yeah! 2 months!

Order now after 2 months can get?

Not to say that at least 2 months, or even longer?

[Lauda]

If you order now, hope for December 2015 :DD
jk, around september/november is what they told me.

[tom_o]

If you order now, hope for December 2015 :DD
jk, around september/november is what they told me.

So four months is the official line, yet on the preorder page it says 2 still. Then again who would preorder a product almost half a year before it's released. Oh yeah; BFL customers.

[Lauda]

If you order now, hope for December 2015 :DD
jk, around september/november is what they told me.

So four months is the official line, yet on the preorder page it says 2 still. Then again who would preorder a product almost half a year before it's released. Oh yeah; BFL customers.

Last time i asked was begining of april, they said late august, so I'm assuming.

[Ten98]

They don't know themselves at the moment. They just changed the company they're using to package their chips because they were unhappy with the speed and quality.  I think they expect to get different / better service elsewhere 

Who knows how long a dodgy, lowest-bidder Chinese fab takes to get a new product off the ground, actually start making it and send the results to the US?

Yeah... 6 months if you're *lucky*  

This is what happens when complete nubs try to start doing business in China. 

[huangxin]

I am in China。

[yocko06]

after attending the bitcoin conference I have less hope in bfl than ever. AVALON ASIC  are definitely no1 in this field. I was lucky enough to party with yifu. I have nothing but respect for him.

[Kouye]

Answer is : In the past.

And yeah, I'll keep posting this until they fix this sticky post full of lies.

[nottm28]

I am in China。

And what can you tell us huangxin - I for one am interested to listen

[Craigmac]

Wow this is still going on...lol So guys when do you call a spade a spade? I'm glad i have my money in my pocket ;-)

[nottm28]

Wow this is still going on...lol So guys when do you call a spade a spade? I'm glad i have my money in my pocket ;-)

will you still be 'lolling' when people are posting 'I have my asic' and you refunded and spent your cash on crap?

[EDIT] I decided to 'gamble' on a BFL asic - I still think it's a decent gamble and I should be able to gamble my own money if I want to - I can't stand all the posters complaining - you shouldn't have 'gambled' if you couldn't afford to lose the money. If you can't afford the 'gamble' - then request a refund - afaik - nobody has been refused a refund.

[Malawi]

I'm thinking that it seems like BFL have shipped a few units, even a (very)few units to end customers.

If/when they have their final design ready, I think they can ramp up production pretty fast. There have been talk about 400 units/day, but If they have wafer/board design ready, i think they can go into more of a mass-production scenario pretty fast.

With electronics, the hard and time-consuming part is the design and development. When that is done, production is pretty straight-foreward and it does not take a lot of skill to assemble the parts.

Edit: BTW - one thing that baffles me is why they are offering to exchange the FPGA's and why they just discontinued their FPGA's instead of doing ASIC-development parallel with FPGA production.
But then again - I'm new to the scene.

[Craigmac]

Wow this is still going on...lol So guys when do you call a spade a spade? I'm glad i have my money in my pocket ;-)

will you still be 'lolling' when people are posting 'I have my asic' and you refunded and spent your cash on crap?

[EDIT] I decided to 'gamble' on a BFL asic - I still think it's a decent gamble and I should be able to gamble my own money if I want to - I can't stand all the posters complaining - you shouldn't have 'gambled' if you couldn't afford to lose the money. If you can't afford the 'gamble' - then request a refund - afaik - nobody has been refused a refund.

Sounds like justified crying to me, suck it up big boy like you said you did it to yourself. Possibly the mods could start a "Boo Hoo" thread and move this there.

[huangxin]

I am in China。

And what can you tell us huangxin - I for one am interested to listen

I am Chinese.

What do you want to hear?

[Rampion]

So... BFL started "shipping" weeks ago... How is that we are not flooded by ecstatic posts of Jalapeño users receiving their machines?

Any word about how many units are their "shipping" per day?

[Scriptiee]

Absolutely none at the moment, they shipped around 35 from which most went to devs and media for reviews. Last update on the forum was on the 6th of May stating they should have ~100 chips on the 9th and make few units then and ship, no updates since then.

I requested a refund from them, no response, gone via paypal to retrieve my money so.

Seen a post in here nicely describing the shipping they promise and what the average wait time for the units will be.

at 40000+ orders and them promising 400 units a day that makes 100 days. That makes 3+ months wait time, the thing is it does not appear that they will be able to ship in such quantities for at least another 2-3 months. you'd be better buying bitcoins

[btc6000]

Absolutely none at the moment, they shipped around 35 from which most went to devs and media for reviews.

Most, but not all went to devs & media

http://imgur.com/U5Rlrl5

Took around 11 months to arrive.

[jaywaka2713]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89685.msg2223905#msg2223905

#1776 for 2 jalapenos have a shipment confirmation. They're powering through the Jalapenos.

[Lauda]

http://bfl.ptz.ro/
1 guy has it delivered, unless he's some sort of employee.

[ThatDGuy]

http://bfl.ptz.ro/
1 guy has it delivered, unless he's some sort of employee.

Am I missing something simple about that site and how someone would confirm their order as shipped? Creating one seems easy enough.