[CLOSED >:( ] >BitMain U2 Group Buy - Ship to US/Canada/Intl (.03/.029 BTC/ea)

[miroman86]

reactor. I need the units I told you. I am little concerned myself too, to send BTC. How can we make this happen and still be very safe. just that you don't have much feedback here, although you have been here for long which I see. What do you guys say? Guys, if you have been here for long, please vouch for him.

Looking at his former posts, nothing seems to be shady, doesn't seem like a spammer or somebody that is just here in the forums haggling people.

I already paid, but would love for somebody to still vouch for reactor just for everybody's peace of mind...

[stex2009]

reactor. I need the units I told you. I am little concerned myself too, to send BTC. How can we make this happen and still be very safe. just that you don't have much feedback here, although you have been here for long which I see. What do you guys say? Guys, if you have been here for long, please vouch for him.

Looking at his former posts, nothing seems to be shady, doesn't seem like a spammer or somebody that is just here in the forums haggling people.

I already paid, but would love for somebody to still vouch for reactor just for everybody's peace of mind...

I completely agree. He looks genuine.

[reactor]

reactor. I need the units I told you. I am little concerned myself too, to send BTC. How can we make this happen and still be very safe. just that you don't have much feedback here, although you have been here for long which I see. What do you guys say? Guys, if you have been here for long, please vouch for him.

Looking at his former posts, nothing seems to be shady, doesn't seem like a spammer or somebody that is just here in the forums haggling people.

I already paid, but would love for somebody to still vouch for reactor just for everybody's peace of mind...

I completely agree. He looks genuine.

I think I'm pretty legit.

Here's my eBay seller account:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=serrinoch

You'll find that my sales activity on there closely corresponds to when I was on group buys with Canary and SSB for the AM sticks.  I've got an Amazon account too, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to find my public feedback page.  Getting too old.

Not sure anything else that would help give folks the warm fuzzies.  I'm a hobbyist like most on here, and if not for the unending delays in withdrawing from Gox I *would* have enough to cover the group buy and have people buy outta that, however things unfolded differently and half my current spendable holdings are in the group buy wallet right now for hardware, so if folks really need escrow the funds just won't be there for paying Bitmain.  I mentioned that in the OP so folks would understand this is just a straight-up group buy.  I've dealt with Canary, SSB, and KosmoKramer for purchases in the past as well as buying hardware off of BTCGuild, so I've been around the block.

[reactor]

So bitwizz and iluvpcs look to either have their units or tracking on their units from China, hopefully Bitmain starts responding to PM's and emails regarding the status of the U2 devices.  Not responding to customers about the product isn't up to their normal level of customer service so not sure what the problem is, but I'll keep folks updated.  Right now we're almost at 4btc in the shared wallet for this purchase, 2.117 of which being mine for my portion of the hardware.

[praeluceo]

So bitwizz and iluvpcs look to either have their units or tracking on their units from China, hopefully Bitmain starts responding to PM's and emails regarding the status of the U2 devices.  Not responding to customers about the product isn't up to their normal level of customer service so not sure what the problem is, but I'll keep folks updated.  Right now we're almost at 4btc in the shared wallet for this purchase, 2.117 of which being mine for my portion of the hardware.

Are you getting the U2+ or the U2s? Because the U2+ wasn't supposed to ship until the 31st, so that may account for the delay.

[reactor]

So bitwizz and iluvpcs look to either have their units or tracking on their units from China, hopefully Bitmain starts responding to PM's and emails regarding the status of the U2 devices.  Not responding to customers about the product isn't up to their normal level of customer service so not sure what the problem is, but I'll keep folks updated.  Right now we're almost at 4btc in the shared wallet for this purchase, 2.117 of which being mine for my portion of the hardware.

Are you getting the U2+ or the U2s? Because the U2+ wasn't supposed to ship until the 31st, so that may account for the delay.

Only Bitmain can answer that question, and Bitmain isn't responding very well.  Even if there are technical delays, other folks who are charging more either have units in hand or tracking for their units, so obviously something is in production, however right now we're seemingly back to the early days of Bitmain customer service where updates are few and far in-between.   But that may mean technical delay, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because they make awesome hardware, just gotta let the folks who want to throw money their way know what's going on.

[stex2009]

Are you getting the U2+ or the U2s? Because the U2+ wasn't supposed to ship until the 31st, so that may account for the delay.

what's U2+ now? (as compared to U2)

[r1senfa17h]

Are you getting the U2+ or the U2s? Because the U2+ wasn't supposed to ship until the 31st, so that may account for the delay.

what's U2+ now? (as compared to U2)

The U2s were what Bitmain shipped on March 5th and are identical to the U2+s with the exception that they are under-clocked to 1.6GH/s by default.

For shipping reference, I purchased another batch of 500 U2+s on March 15th and they have already shipped and will arrive tomorrow. Bitmain closed the sale soon after the 15th (not sure exactly when), so I'm not sure how reactor plans to get on the March 31st shipment wave.

[reactor]

Are you getting the U2+ or the U2s? Because the U2+ wasn't supposed to ship until the 31st, so that may account for the delay.

what's U2+ now? (as compared to U2)

The U2s were what Bitmain shipped on March 5th and are identical to the U2+s with the exception that they are under-clocked to 1.6GH/s by default.

For shipping reference, I purchased another batch of 500 U2+s on March 15th and they have already shipped and will arrive tomorrow. Bitmain closed the sale soon after the 15th (not sure exactly when), so I'm not sure how reactor plans to get on the March 31st shipment wave.

I originally emailed Bitmain when I was musing over the idea of starting a group buy, they responded to let them know when we were prepared for ordering and they could provide details at that point in time, nothing regarding ending of orders.  I contacted Bitmain several days ago to let them know we were going to start collecting funds and to provide further info, since then I have heard nothing back.  That is where I stand with Bitmain. 

Had they mentioned an expiry date on the batch, etc., I obviously wouldn't have started a group buy, kept it going, emailed them to let them know we were going to start pooling funds, and actually started to pool funds.   Believe me, not looking to do extra work for no end result, but for now I can't quite knock on their door overseas, so I'll have to wait until they respond.

[r1senfa17h]

Are you getting the U2+ or the U2s? Because the U2+ wasn't supposed to ship until the 31st, so that may account for the delay.

what's U2+ now? (as compared to U2)

The U2s were what Bitmain shipped on March 5th and are identical to the U2+s with the exception that they are under-clocked to 1.6GH/s by default.

For shipping reference, I purchased another batch of 500 U2+s on March 15th and they have already shipped and will arrive tomorrow. Bitmain closed the sale soon after the 15th (not sure exactly when), so I'm not sure how reactor plans to get on the March 31st shipment wave.

I originally emailed Bitmain when I was musing over the idea of starting a group buy, they responded to let them know when we were prepared for ordering and they could provide details at that point in time, nothing regarding ending of orders.  I contacted Bitmain several days ago to let them know we were going to start collecting funds and to provide further info, since then I have heard nothing back.  That is where I stand with Bitmain. 

Had they mentioned an expiry date on the batch, etc., I obviously wouldn't have started a group buy, kept it going, emailed them to let them know we were going to start pooling funds, and actually started to pool funds.   Believe me, not looking to do extra work for no end result, but for now I can't quite knock on their door overseas, so I'll have to wait until they respond.

I've found them to be honorable in their dealings and you'll probably be fine. They usually take a couple days to get back to my emails too.

[stex2009]

I have never orderd with them, but, Last time I missed the order for 500 USBs  by just a few hours. It's a hit or miss when trying to contact them.

[reactor]

I have never orderd with them, but, Last time I missed the order for 500 USBs  by just a few hours. It's a hit or miss when trying to contact them.

Not sure their issue, I've now contacted them on the 29th, 31st, and again today to follow-up on ordering.  If they're seriously not going to respond I'm open to  looking into other options, for example into the Nanofury buy listed here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=545507.0

If Bitmain doesn't respond/doesn't want our money that's my next spot.  In fact, going to PM them now...

[jonnybravo0311]

Reactor,

I contacted Bitmain by email yesterday regarding placing an order for U2.  The following is the response from them:

Hi,
U2 is out of stock now, please follow our website store for open sales news.

Best Regards

BITMAIN

This e-mail and its attachments contain confidential information from BITMAIN TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, which is intended only for the person or entity whose address is listed above. Any use of the information contained herein in any way (including, but not limited to, total or partial disclosure, reproduction, or dissemination) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by phone or email immediately and delete it! Thank you.

Hopefully because you previously contacted them about placing an order they might have set some inventory aside for you, but I don't hold out much hope.

[reactor]

Reactor,

I contacted Bitmain by email yesterday regarding placing an order for U2.  The following is the response from them:

Hi,
U2 is out of stock now, please follow our website store for open sales news.

Best Regards

BITMAIN

This e-mail and its attachments contain confidential information from BITMAIN TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, which is intended only for the person or entity whose address is listed above. Any use of the information contained herein in any way (including, but not limited to, total or partial disclosure, reproduction, or dissemination) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by phone or email immediately and delete it! Thank you.

Hopefully because you previously contacted them about placing an order they might have set some inventory aside for you, but I don't hold out much hope.

I don't even know at this point.  To be perfectly honest, if Bitmain hasn't responded back by the end of the day Friday I'm going to refund people and call this off.  I don't like holding other people's money and getting people's hopes up, I did my part by contacting them before the group buy and doing what they said to do, if they don't plan on responding to me at this point there isn't much else I can do. 

Again, holding out hope because they've previously gotten bad at communication when there were technical issues, but after I've followed-up three times I just get irritated. 

[jonnybravo0311]

Not a problem.  Hopefully they'll get back to you and say, "Oh yes, we've been expecting your order!"

If this doesn't happen, I'll probably pick up one or two of those gridseed miners to play with.  I've got an RPi, a few USB hubs and a power supply hanging around that could be put to use mining scrypt.

[reactor]

Not a problem.  Hopefully they'll get back to you and say, "Oh yes, we've been expecting your order!"

If this doesn't happen, I'll probably pick up one or two of those gridseed miners to play with.  I've got an RPi, a few USB hubs and a power supply hanging around that could be put to use mining scrypt.

In which case I'd recommend Zoomhash.  I'm actually on the fence between getting more of those or just sitting happy that I picked up a few BTC @ $450.  But Zoomhash was quick to deliver and have good prices for domestic US, especially considering Gridseed direct requires both MOQ of 500 units and the ability to handle the hardware in mainland China.

[jonnybravo0311]

Exactly the reseller I've been looking at.  They've got the best price I've seen (at least among legitimate ones).  Also you gave them a pretty good review in an earlier post, so they'll likely get my business.  As I wrote, this would be more an experiment than anything else.  I don't currently have any kind of scrypt hashing power (my rMBP will only put out about 125k when using both the GPU and CPU).  Getting about triple the rate while also a) not potentially turning my laptop into a very expensive paperweight and b) consuming less than 10 watts at the wall for it?  Yes please.

[reactor]

Exactly the reseller I've been looking at.  They've got the best price I've seen (at least among legitimate ones).  Also you gave them a pretty good review in an earlier post, so they'll likely get my business.  As I wrote, this would be more an experiment than anything else.  I don't currently have any kind of scrypt hashing power (my rMBP will only put out about 125k when using both the GPU and CPU).  Getting about triple the rate while also a) not potentially turning my laptop into a very expensive paperweight and b) consuming less than 10 watts at the wall for it?  Yes please.

Yeah, I mean Gridseeds won't really ROI so they're more on the fun side of hardware, but you really never know where the sha/scrypt markets will go if people start pumping money into them again.  Just look at stuff like TRC and PPC, at once point I was up 180% on my investment on both of those, right now I'm floating around 25% (buying and selling on BTC-e).  Now they're worth dirt, but much like with AsicMiner shares I'm being stubborn and holding.  Otherwise the Gridseed miner has worked great pointed at BTCGuild for BTC and their scrypt alternative ScryptGuild without issue, collecting about eight different coins for minimal power usage.  Actually just got my first electric bill since turning off the GPU rigs and switching entirely to my old BFL unit, some AM sticks, and my Gridseed, and saved over $250 this month alone.  Was hoping to add some Ants to that lineup, but, well... we'll see.

[jonnybravo0311]

That $250 savings is exactly the reason I'm looking into it.  The S1 is pretty efficient, drawing less than 400 watts running at 200GH/s.  My interest here in the U2 was just to see how they'd perform compared to the S1.  The hardware would cost a bunch more at the outset to get 100 U2s (3BTC give or take) vs the <1BTC paid for the S1; however, the U2 farm would consume about half the power of the S1.  Would I make up the difference?  Eventually.  Like the gridseed, the U2 is pretty much a "fun" piece of hardware.  I'll probably end up giving them out to coworkers/friends as gifts to get them into BTC, once I've had my fun playing with them

[reactor]

That $250 savings is exactly the reason I'm looking into it.  The S1 is pretty efficient, drawing less than 400 watts running at 200GH/s.  My interest here in the U2 was just to see how they'd perform compared to the S1.  The hardware would cost a bunch more at the outset to get 100 U2s (3BTC give or take) vs the <1BTC paid for the S1; however, the U2 farm would consume about half the power of the S1.  Would I make up the difference?  Eventually.  Like the gridseed, the U2 is pretty much a "fun" piece of hardware.  I'll probably end up giving them out to coworkers/friends as gifts to get them into BTC, once I've had my fun playing with them

I'm not talking about giving anything away, you're a nice person.

I just wanted to get rid of all of my high heat generating hardware before it gets warm again.  That's why Ants are ideal, I know they won't ROI but they're a way that I can flip on mining for any sha coin that I want to and can still be "in the game" because I'm a hardware geek at heart.