DRILLBIT SYSTEM Miners - Avalon range available - Now $104.99!

[Micky25]

Customs could be a challenge with such bigger shipments.

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[milkbottlec]

Yea...I won't do it for one large shipment. I would rather send it to my work address (UK). That usually speeds up. :p

[vulgartrendkill]

I must admit due to my one lonely board (although now with added usb sticks) it may not be worth me going in with folks, but I'm waiting on the info from Barntech to make a decision either way...

[monkeynutts]

Customs could be a challenge with such bigger shipments.

Ah yes good thought. Like I said this is just me thinking out loud really, whatever i can do to help with this awesome group buy.


Somebody else said the UK folk are already talking about this ? UK people who are you and what conclusions did you come to ?


cheers guys

monkey

[davmp]

Somebody else said the UK folk are already talking about this ? UK people who are you and what conclusions did you come to ?

Yeah, we had a PM going between 5 people earlier about doing this.   One guy already pulled out.  My own take was that it might make sense, especially since I imagine the per-board cost goes down if you ship more of them together, but any delays in getting your board would be bad.   Thus, I suggested waiting until Barntech posted actual shipping costs to decide for sure.  There may be other PMs between the other 3 or 4 that I didn't receive after making that statement. :-)

[vulgartrendkill]

Agreed.  I'm still interested in the potential of a group UK shipment once Barntech firms up some figures  

[monkeynutts]

well cool. lets see what barntech says about shipping

but im willing to do this, if it helps

cheers

[vulgartrendkill]

well cool. lets see what barntech says about shipping

but im willing to do this, if it helps

cheers

Marvellous

[hasher87]

that board looks sweet!! might go for two if you have it ready

payment will be with paypal 

[vulgartrendkill]

that board looks sweet!! might go for two if you have it ready

payment will be with paypal 

I'm afraid you are a little late with the boards. There may be some usbs left

[Stinky_Pete]

Somebody else said the UK folk are already talking about this ? UK people who are you and what conclusions did you come to ?

Yeah, we had a PM going between 5 people earlier about doing this.   One guy already pulled out.  My own take was that it might make sense, especially since I imagine the per-board cost goes down if you ship more of them together, but any delays in getting your board would be bad.   Thus, I suggested waiting until Barntech posted actual shipping costs to decide for sure.  There may be other PMs between the other 3 or 4 that I didn't receive after making that statement. :-)

I'm the guy who dropped out. Nothing sinister, I found I didn't have the funds available to buy the boards. I wish that wasn't the case as this looks like the most interesting project going on at the moment. I'm still trying to get some coins together in case a couple of boards become available.

[DyslexicZombei]

Just bought a couple USB thumbs for fun. Thanks Barntech!

Haven't plumbed the depths of this thread yet but can someone tell me what's the latest on ETA for boards & USB thumbs?

[milkbottlec]

Just bought a couple USB thumbs for fun. Thanks Barntech!

Haven't plumbed the depths of this thread yet but can someone tell me what's the latest on ETA for boards & USB thumbs?

DZ, seems everything going well, they just uploaded the photos of the sample PCB. 

[DyslexicZombei]

Just bought a couple USB thumbs for fun. Thanks Barntech!

Haven't plumbed the depths of this thread yet but can someone tell me what's the latest on ETA for boards & USB thumbs?

DZ, seems everything going well, they just uploaded the photos of the sample PCB. 

Hey milkbottlec,

Nice! Now I wish I had bought a Drillbit board before they ran out. Dang good price esp. considering the shipping window.
Guess I'll keep an eye out for board restocks.

[bitcoinsucker1]

I would like to purchase 3 boards.

[hasher87]

that board looks sweet!! might go for two if you have it ready

payment will be with paypal 

I'm afraid you are a little late with the boards. There may be some usbs left

i know its out of stock atm, but hey it doesnt hurt to keep that hopes up 

[voxelot]

that board looks sweet!! might go for two if you have it ready

payment will be with paypal 

I'm afraid you are a little late with the boards. There may be some usbs left

i know its out of stock atm, but hey it doesnt hurt to keep that hopes up 

People can be quite unforgiving here.  Barntech also mentioned he would sell more boards if he can get a fair price on chips or the demand is high enough.

He could also do well just selling the boards as a sort of extreme DIY kit with solder masks and a BOM. If Bitfury releases reels of chips at competitive prices.

[Barntech]

Hey guys.

Totally happy to ship in batches if people want that. I guess ultimately it will be up to you guys to coordinate. I can post up all the people in each given country to assist you guys in sorting that side of it out. It will probably be cheaper that way, but as pointed out may result in the process taking a bit longer.

I'm sorry i haven't got proper shipping details up yet. Trust me, it is on my list. Basically it will come down to weight and choice of things like expedited delivery, tracking (i imagine we will all want this) etc. I WILL get that sorted soon. In the meantime, pplease feel free to form groups for bundled postage if you like.

Updates on possible second chip batch aren't looking good. I can see that there is a lot of demand, and trust me, we would love to make more of these things, but i still haven't heard anything back about potential price changes. Currently new batch boards would sit somewhere around the $650 mark, which i don't really feel comfortable offering. That said, if 500 people are all happy to pay this, then we can do. Let me know if that does interest any of you.

We will also be putting up the purchase option for blank boards soon for anyone who has access to chips any other way and is interested in fabricating them themselves. All our stuff we will be open sourced once we have done our manufacture run.

On other news, the boards are slowly coming to life!

 

[Barntech]

..... and Bam! They're all gone.

Thanks everyone for making this happen. I'm gonna do the final tallies soon and we may have a final release of a few more thumbs, maybe even a few more boards. Stay tuned.

Barntech.

[MRKLYE]

Still holding onto a USB thumb for me?

Banker may have burned me on sparklecoin.. still waiting for payment from that.

Got 0.25 saved up so far.