As a thank you to our customers for being patient with us as we move towards fulfilling our shipping we are instituting a chip credit program for all pre-orders prior to April 1st, 2013 (Including orders already delivered). This program will allocate a $25 discount per chip up to the number of chips you currently have on order. For example, if you have a Single SC on order, you will receive a $25 credit per chip for 16 chips (Meaning 16 chips can be purchased for $50 each). The chip count for each unit is as follows:
5 GH/s / Jalapeno: 2 chips
25/30 GH/s Miner: 8 chips
50/60 GH/s Miner: 16 chips
500 GH/s Miner: 128 chips
1.5 TH Minirig: 384 chips
Every customer with a current pre-order dated prior to April 1st, 2013 will receive a chip credit for the number of chips/units they have pre-ordered. What this means is that you will be able to purchase raw chips from us for $50 instead of $75 per chip, up to the number of chips you have credit for. We realize that not all of our customers are interested in or have the desire to make use of the chips themselves. To that end, you will be able to sell your chip credit to other people who may be interested in or have the ability to make use of the chips directly.
Jokingly Translated: Please, god oh please! Accept our offer to send you chips instead, it is fooking unprofitable for us to meet our 60Gh/s miner goals. We'd rather lower the bar and send you just the chips. We promise we aren't hiding any facts from you which would make this situation a different kind of plea. I promise....let us off the hook.
Take your chips and go find someone to put it together. Here, a 25$ discount. We need to really shirk this responsibility. We would be in a hole financially if went sent these all out. So take your dirty chips and GO! Don't ever come back. (ok, a little over dramatic...but that is what crossed my mind)
Joking Caption: "We will even put it in a doggie bag for you...."For our very earliest customers, the first three months of orders (June 23rd to September 23rd orders) will receive 2x the value of the chip credits. For example, a 60 GH/s miner will be worth 32 chips in credit, a Jalapeno will give a 4 chip credit.
Jokingly Translated: My god! Take our bloody 4$ chips! (for eh, 50$?)
I beg you! Take our damn offer, we need to cut our liability by getting you to agree ASAP! Right here, right now! We don't want you to sue our asses for our huge delay! Seriously!
We need to get this monkey off our back immediately. Please, please let us send you a "Bag o' BFL chips"®? Pretty please?!
We promise that you will find someone else to put it together!? Someone far more competent than we..."probably"?
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</Invoke Inaba Escape Clause>You should see your chip credit code(s) in your account shortly, and you may do with them as you wish at that time.
Jokingly Translated: Take it and go, you dirty apes!
There is a 100 chip minimum purchase, so if you are acquiring codes, please be sure to understand that you will need to order a minimum of 100 chips.
Jokingly Translated: We still want/need to make money off you, you know!
Terms: While we do not have the facilities or the ability to facilitate chip transfers directly, the chip credit codes are transferable from one person to another and we do not limit the resale or transfer of the chip credit codes. The customer is responsible for doing their due diligence when buying, selling or trading the codes, so please be sure to only trade with trusted, verified individuals. Codes can not be refunded, returned or canceled once they have been used or transferred. Butterfly Labs will not be responsible for what a user does with their codes and we are only providing the discount to verified, paid pre-existing pre-orders. Once codes have been redeemed and the payment process has begun, if you do not complete the payment, the codes will be invalid and can not be refunded or returned.
Jokingly Translated: Trade amongst yourselves, but if anyone scams ye'...it ain't our problem.
We just give out coupons and shirk responsibility...11 months...later?
Source:
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3272-customer-appreciation-chip-credit-program.html
