So the surprise that Black Arrow was holding back is the fact that they won't price match their competitors and they can't offer any more compensation? Was this really any surprise or just expected?
it doesn't surprise me at all.
they've been delaying further info on the compensation until ship time with the explanation that it made no sense to talk about it until that point. stringing people along.
it's what they've been doing since January and probably even before that, when they knew there was a problem with the initial date and waited until shortly before delivery to disclose that fact.
let's recap. this is all from memory, as I'm not going back through this whole thread to reconstruct their bullshit, so this may be a little off. I'll leave that to the lawyers and anyone else that would like to correct any of this.
1. February was a conservative ship date.
2. they would meet competitor pricing at ship time or offer equivalent compensation, or some such thing. it's been such a long strange trip even I've forgotten what they've promised, but I know this ain't it
3. They were two weeks ahead "last I heard" until shortly before delivery, at which point they had essentially nothing, hadn't hashed a hash or even taped out their ASIC. They offered some cloud hashing BS as compensation. Could not do anything more. No way. Too Broke (but we're working on a scrypt miner)
4. Then it was May 1 delivery and an additional Th/s unit (but no power supply) and they continued to promise to keep the above promises with respect to $/Gh at shipping and there would be some surprise.
5. Then oops our backplane doesn't work, but don't worry we're working day and night on this and will still meet our other promises.
6. And here we are, a delay of ~4.5 months, which is longer than the time from when most people ordered to expected delivery and they have reneged on their other promises and, again, screwed people on compensation after telling them they were simply waiting to ship to update that portion of things. Again, there's just nothing they can do (you should believe us this time, although we were clearly full of crap last time)
but no, no lies here. as far as I'm concerned this has been an obvious and concerted effort to string people along the entire time and they are now selling a unit that's worth about 3k to people for 6K, tossing in a minimal bone and calling it even. that's utter bullshit. fraud? I dunno, you'll have to make your own judgements I suppose on whether or not this was an orchestrated attempt to keep the suckers onboard. I know I'm filing complaints with every government agency I can find.
and for the couple/few nuthugging fools that were on here defending these people this entire time and berating those of us that were pointing this out all along as if we were paranoid tinfoil hat wearing assholes. you are the biggest morons of them all.
