The 3rd Round Auction for the AntMiner S1 Dual Blades, 120 units, 24 hours

[conv3rsion]

wow, it's amazing more units were available and even higher prices.
you think a real manufacturer who wanted a real long term business would seriously do this?  I'm not going to answer this, and I can see where the USB prices are heading.

oh wait another week. oh we have problem.  just another couple days. and on and on and on...

Just pure GREED.

if you had 120 units what would you do? sell them all to a single reseller for 2BTC each, or pull an avalon and ask for 5.5BTC each? or would you do this, and let people decide what they will willingly pay for it?

last i checked thats not greed, its good business

Depends on how many more I was going to make and how quickly I was going to make them. Long term relationship building can trump short term maximizations.  

[r7970]

1@4.75

[Keefe]

2 @ 4.5 

Sorry elasticband, but you were 14 seconds too late. Whew, auction over at 4.25.

[Xer0]

c c c c combo breaker

[Ridicuss]

wow, it's amazing more units were available and even higher prices.
you think a real manufacturer who wanted a real long term business would seriously do this?  I'm not going to answer this, and I can see where the USB prices are heading.

oh wait another week. oh we have problem.  just another couple days. and on and on and on...

Just pure GREED.

if you had 120 units what would you do? sell them all to a single reseller for 2BTC each, or pull an avalon and ask for 5.5BTC each? or would you do this, and let people decide what they will willingly pay for it?

last i checked thats not greed, its good business

Depends on how many more I was going to make and how quickly I was going to make them. Long term relationship building can trump short term maximizations.  

I agree with both philosophies.  The problem with Long term and trying to gain customer loyalty is  the question of: What is long term in the BTC world?
Seems Like 1 day in the BTC world equals 1 to 3 months in the real world.

[arorts]

2 @ 4.5 

OMG, you could have done that 20 mins ago, dude!  The units at 4.25 aren't going anywhere in 20 mins. You shd send us a few mBTC for the extra coffee/ red bull ;-)

[conv3rsion]

2 @ 4.5 

This bid missed the cut off. The auction is over.

[bitterdog]

3 Minutes to Go....

2 @ 4.5  

He clearly made it in time!! 20 more mins please!!

[sushi]

20 more minutes...
Thanks guys...

Username	Quantity		Bidding Price		Units left		Amount	Payment address	Amount Before Discount
HorseRider	1		6.00		119		6		3
geoloudon	2		4.75		117		9.5		6
Airwhale	1		4.75		116		4.75		3
r7970	1		4.75		115		4.75		3
smartbrain	1		4.50		114		4.5		3
nairb131	3		4.50		111		13.5		9
keefe	2		4.50		109		9		6
pmagid	1		4.50		108		4.5		3
Goxed	2		4.50		106		9		6
resningpocdi	12		4.50		94		54		36
torusJKL	3		4.50		91		13.5		9
greaterninja	3		4.50		88		13.5		9
AndiDC	2		4.50		86		9		6
arorts	10		4.50		76		45		30
bones	2		4.50		74		9		6
canford	1		4.50		73		4.5		3
fizboz	1		4.50		72		4.5		3
conv3rsion	3		4.50		69		13.5		9
Ridicuss	1		4.50		68		4.5		3
yuancraft	1		4.50		67		4.5		3
spiccioli	2		4.50		65		9		6
gravito	3		4.50		62		13.5		9
semaster	3		4.50		59		13.5		9
xwr213	1		4.50		58		4.5		3
elasticband	2		4.50		56		9		6
dentldir	1		4.25		55		4.25		3
erem	5		4.25		50		21.25		15
djjacket	1		4.25		49		4.25		3
slastar	10		4.25		39		42.5		30
ouwe	15		4.25		24		63.75		45
xstr8guy	1		4.25		23		4.25		3
bitwhizz	9		4.25		14		38.25		27
lubah	1		4.25		13		4.25		3
miter_myles	1		4.25		12		4.25		3
resort	1		4.25		11		4.25		3
joemde	11		4.25		0		46.75		33

[elasticband]

2 @ 4.5 

3 Minutes to Go....

[elasticband]

sorry guys, i don't really want to be here either but a friend asked me to grab him 2 and just upped his stake.

end!!

[conv3rsion]

Check the timestamps. The auction is over.

[Keefe]

1@4.5

2 @ 4.5 

Auction ended 20 minutes after xwr213's bid, 14 seconds before elasticband's post.

[arorts]

2 @ 4.5 

3 Minutes to Go....

Nope. The last actual bid was more than 20 mins ago.. Sorry dude ;-)

[joemde]

13 @ 4.5

[klondike_bar]

wow, it's amazing more units were available and even higher prices.
you think a real manufacturer who wanted a real long term business would seriously do this?  I'm not going to answer this, and I can see where the USB prices are heading.

oh wait another week. oh we have problem.  just another couple days. and on and on and on...

Just pure GREED.

if you had 120 units what would you do? sell them all to a single reseller for 2BTC each, or pull an avalon and ask for 5.5BTC each? or would you do this, and let people decide what they will willingly pay for it?

last i checked thats not greed, its good business

Depends on how many more I was going to make and how quickly I was going to make them. Long term relationship building can trump short term maximizations.  

right now they seem to be capable of 30-40 units per day, and there is a lot of demand for them at >4.25BTC. I like that they are doing it his way, my only qualm is that they should limit the auction to 2 units/person to help get noobies mining rather then medium-sized miners

[sushi]

extended the auction, but the list remain the same...

[merv77]

wow, it's amazing more units were available and even higher prices.
you think a real manufacturer who wanted a real long term business would seriously do this?  I'm not going to answer this, and I can see where the USB prices are heading.

oh wait another week. oh we have problem.  just another couple days. and on and on and on...

Just pure GREED.

if you had 120 units what would you do? sell them all to a single reseller for 2BTC each, or pull an avalon and ask for 5.5BTC each? or would you do this, and let people decide what they will willingly pay for it?

last i checked thats not greed, its good business

good business & good economics.

what comes to my mind when I see this... is 'car salesman', you what most people think of car salesmen.

[elasticband]

2 @ 4.5 

3 Minutes to Go....

Nope. The last actual bid was more than 20 mins ago.. Sorry dude ;-)

In all fairness to these guys, they are right, i had not looked at the last bid. this auction is sadly over and i missed the cut off.

right thing to do is end it....

[miter_myles]

WTF, the last bid was @ Today at 12:54:45 PM by xwr213

Auction ended at 01:14:45

Elastic's bid was at Today at 01:14:59 PM