[ANN] US/North American Bitfury sales NEW STOCK ***NOW SHIPPING***

[jspielberg]

07/19/2013
Big News About BitFury Coming Soon!
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As a feature of security, BitFury has agreed to "lock-in" my place in line without delivering funds until a working prototype is presented. This is to ensure that no funds are allocated irresponsibly.

I assume now that tytus has presented a 400 GH hand assembled prototype model running, it is pay up or ... It sounds like the deal may have been with bitfury and not dave.

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[buzzdave]

Guys, let me describe how my sales are structured and maybe it will clear things up.  First - I have three sales channels, not all of which are run through the online store:

Retail: online eCommerce - megabigpower.com, affiliates and partner sites (pool ops for example)
Wholesale: private mines, large hosted placements, investor/customers & various flavors of mining bond/share based mining
OEM: bulk chip sales for manufacture

The Retail channel was opened up first to give the best opportunity to the community.  The starter kits were also discounted for this reason.  The Wholesale channel was opened up for October delivery and has a minimum $250k commitment with a demonstrated potential for larger purchases and re-buys.  OEM is chips by the reel or participatory investment in chip orders, i.e. Metabank.

Lab_Rat controls a potential hardware buy of up to $1m with rebuys.  These guys don't operate through a website to make these kinds of purchases.  Usually there's negotiation, pro-forma sales terms, proof (usually in person), deposits, delivery, final payment. 

Lab_Rat isn't even in the Retail queue - he's in the Wholesale side, though he mis-characterized that in his comments.  I have a completely different Test & Ship Team for Retail & Wholesale channels.  For now, bulk chips are sold as drop ship from Europe, but that may change too.

Understand that if you are in this half of the world and you want to buy BitFury, you have to buy it from me at the moment.  There is a lot of money coming into Bitcoin mining and each type of customer requires a different structure.

[ErebusBat]

Guys, let me describe how my sales are structured and maybe it will clear things up.  First - I have three sales channels, not all of which are run through the online store:

Retail: online eCommerce - megabigpower.com, affiliates and partner sites (pool ops for example)
Wholesale: private mines, large hosted placements, investor/customers & various flavors of mining bond/share based mining
OEM: bulk chip sales for manufacture

The Retail channel was opened up first to give the best opportunity to the community.  The starter kits were also discounted for this reason.  The Wholesale channel was opened up for October delivery and has a minimum $250k commitment with a demonstrated potential for larger purchases and re-buys.  OEM is chips by the reel or participatory investment in chip orders, i.e. Metabank.

Lab_Rat controls a potential hardware buy of up to $1m with rebuys.  These guys don't operate through a website to make these kinds of purchases.  Usually there's negotiation, pro-forma sales terms, proof (usually in person), deposits, delivery, final payment. 

Lab_Rat isn't even in the Retail queue - he's in the Wholesale side, though he mis-characterized that in his comments.  I have a completely different Test & Ship Team for Retail & Wholesale channels.  For now, bulk chips are sold as drop ship from Europe, but that may change too.

Understand that if you are in this half of the world and you want to buy BitFury, you have to buy it from me at the moment.  There is a lot of money coming into Bitcoin mining and each type of customer requires a different structure.

I would also like to state to all those who have sour grapes:  This kind of structuring is very very common in the 'real world'.  Take a look at WalMart as a good example.

[-Redacted-]

Makes sense Dave, thanks for claifying !

[zurg]

Dave has avoided pitchforks once again. lol j.k.

[aspeer]

very nicely put! thanks for the update!

Guys, let me describe how my sales are structured and maybe it will clear things up.  First - I have three sales channels, not all of which are run through the online store:

Retail: online eCommerce - megabigpower.com, affiliates and partner sites (pool ops for example)
Wholesale: private mines, large hosted placements, investor/customers & various flavors of mining bond/share based mining
OEM: bulk chip sales for manufacture

The Retail channel was opened up first to give the best opportunity to the community.  The starter kits were also discounted for this reason.  The Wholesale channel was opened up for October delivery and has a minimum $250k commitment with a demonstrated potential for larger purchases and re-buys.  OEM is chips by the reel or participatory investment in chip orders, i.e. Metabank.

Lab_Rat controls a potential hardware buy of up to $1m with rebuys.  These guys don't operate through a website to make these kinds of purchases.  Usually there's negotiation, pro-forma sales terms, proof (usually in person), deposits, delivery, final payment. 

Lab_Rat isn't even in the Retail queue - he's in the Wholesale side, though he mis-characterized that in his comments.  I have a completely different Test & Ship Team for Retail & Wholesale channels.  For now, bulk chips are sold as drop ship from Europe, but that may change too.

Understand that if you are in this half of the world and you want to buy BitFury, you have to buy it from me at the moment.  There is a lot of money coming into Bitcoin mining and each type of customer requires a different structure.

[Todamont]

The 1% is taking over the mining game and allowing the fiat governments to feed off of bitcoin. Don't support these guys.

[bkpduke]

The 1% is taking over the mining game and allowing the fiat governments to feed off of bitcoin. Don't support these guys.

Go back to your tin foil house.

[buzzdave]

A few new things:

-I pulled down the bulk and 10pc chip sales in advance of a new tiered pricing structure. 
-I also disabled August product, so those won't show up anymore.

There's a new M-board design for retail boards!  It has two Molex connectors for power (still retains original Keystone terminals too), 3 Minifit-Jr fan connectors and has been reorganized a bit.  It provides 4 SPI channels rather than one long one.  This design is not tested yet, though prototypes are coming this week.

Niko will have pictures when they come in.  *If* they test well and I can ship these for August without incurring a delay, this is what you will get.  Otherwise, you will get the first version M-board, which has a Keystone Terminal http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/8197/8197K-ND/316833 for power. 

I'll get you clarification on this asap, so you can prepare your PSU setup...

[buzzdave]

Anybody that tried using Square for credit card processing got auto-refunded.  Since there are fees and possibly exchange rate losses associated with this, I will credit your order with compensation for this.  We have all the transactions on the Square side, so no need to contact me.  I'll have Kat start working on this.

Thanks Square!

Dave

[nexus99]

Anybody that tried using Square for credit card processing got auto-refunded.  Since there are fees and possibly exchange rate losses associated with this, I will credit your order with compensation for this.  We have all the transactions on the Square side, so no need to contact me.  I'll have Kat start working on this.

Thanks Square!

Dave

Not all of us got refunded... if the transaction went through ok is that going to change or is it a done deal at this point?

[int03h]

Guys, let me describe how my sales are structured and maybe it will clear things up.  First - I have three sales channels, not all of which are run through the online store:

Retail: online eCommerce - megabigpower.com, affiliates and partner sites (pool ops for example)
Wholesale: private mines, large hosted placements, investor/customers & various flavors of mining bond/share based mining
OEM: bulk chip sales for manufacture

The Retail channel was opened up first to give the best opportunity to the community.  The starter kits were also discounted for this reason.  The Wholesale channel was opened up for October delivery and has a minimum $250k commitment with a demonstrated potential for larger purchases and re-buys.  OEM is chips by the reel or participatory investment in chip orders, i.e. Metabank.

Lab_Rat controls a potential hardware buy of up to $1m with rebuys.  These guys don't operate through a website to make these kinds of purchases.  Usually there's negotiation, pro-forma sales terms, proof (usually in person), deposits, delivery, final payment. 

Lab_Rat isn't even in the Retail queue - he's in the Wholesale side, though he mis-characterized that in his comments.  I have a completely different Test & Ship Team for Retail & Wholesale channels.  For now, bulk chips are sold as drop ship from Europe, but that may change too.

Understand that if you are in this half of the world and you want to buy BitFury, you have to buy it from me at the moment.  There is a lot of money coming into Bitcoin mining and each type of customer requires a different structure.

I would also like to state to all those who have sour grapes:  This kind of structuring is very very common in the 'real world'.  Take a look at WalMart as a good example.

Terrible example. All the product available at Walmart are sold off the shelf.

[Foofighter]

A few new things:

-I pulled down the bulk and 10pc chip sales in advance of a new tiered pricing structure. 
-I also disabled August product, so those won't show up anymore.

There's a new M-board design for retail boards!  It has two Molex connectors for power (still retains original Keystone terminals too), 3 Minifit-Jr fan connectors and has been reorganized a bit.  It provides 4 SPI channels rather than one long one.  This design is not tested yet, though prototypes are coming this week.

Niko will have pictures when they come in.  *If* they test well and I can ship these for August without incurring a delay, this is what you will get.  Otherwise, you will get the first version M-board, which has a Keystone Terminal http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/8197/8197K-ND/316833 for power. 

I'll get you clarification on this asap, so you can prepare your PSU setup...

Hey dave,

Does the mboard mounting hole alignment stay the same?

[-Redacted-]

Ther's some info over on the EU thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=250249.msg2878418#msg2878418

[Tsukene]

Do you still accept credit cards for new orders?

[Stack]

So as for the credit card situation. I had placed a wire transfer order noting CC payment and have been awaiting an e-mail or something.
Do I continue to wait to be contacted, or do I now cancel it and just put through a new order with CC on the website?

[erk]

How come the 25GH/s starter kit is still at the old price and not similar $ per GH/s to the new 400GH/s unit price?

It's like $52 per GH/s vs $20 per GH/s  which is a crazy difference.
 

NVM. I just noticed the starter kit includes the motherboard price too.

[Stack]

How come the 25GH/s starter kit is still at the old price and not similar $ per GH/s to the new 400GH/s unit price?

It's like $52 per GH/s vs $20 per GH/s  which is a crazy difference.
 

That's not true.

Full Kit = $8000
Starter Kit +15 Boards = $8800

Only a 10% difference

[tom99]

How come the 25GH/s starter kit is still at the old price and not similar $ per GH/s to the new 400GH/s unit price?

It's like $52 per GH/s vs $20 per GH/s  which is a crazy difference.
 

  we got good price than Europe site.

[nexus99]

I am very much looking forward to getting my starter set so I can start filling it up with boards...