Hi everyone,
I am investigating into buying a large quantity of PCI-E to USB hubs for users looking to upgrade/modify their Bitcoin rigs. More or less, the PCI-E to USB hub turns your former GPU slot into a USB hub for K1/ASICMiner Block Erupters.
There are a few makes and models that I can purchase from the factory, but are generally similar, between a few styles.
I'd like to see if there's interest in this from Bitcointalk members. Given the price drops on the USBs, I imagine a lot of people want/need hubs and handlers for them.
I'm (also) working on a large order of the "Juiced" 10-port hubs. The dirty secret is that there are generally two or three manufacturers of these type of 10-port, USB 3.0 hubs that are powerful enough to handle 10 USBs. They aren't cheap, but everyone is seemingly sold out, which means a direct buy from the factory may yield cheaper prices, if not a guarantee that they're at least available.
So here's what I'm looking at:
These are also available in a vertical configuration, but cost about $2 more at wholesale. Group buy price on these would be about
$12.50 USD + shipping if I can get enough orders (MOQ is 200, but I can absorb probably half of that myself)
For the loved Juiced" brand hubs (which I believe are actually re-branded Orico's), I have the following pictures of em:
The price on these is (sadly) not very cheap at wholesale, so these could be sold at
$45 + shipping in a group buy (I'm getting ready to order 50 of them, with 25 already accounted for). Would there be any interest from anyone here for these models? There are a few companies that sell these models at a slight discount at very high volumes. The price could probably be dropped to $44 or $43/ea if enough were purchased via a pre-order.
If you're interested, feel free to comment. I need to check shipping prices, but I usually deal with USPS on these.. I would imagine that a significant number could be fit into either a Regional A box, or a Medium Flat Rate box (so up to $12 shipping).
