14% off BFL ASIC SC Single Preorder (including free US shipping on 9 units)

[wogaut]

I'm an owner of Butterfly Labs hashing power and as many others I'm faced by the ASIC pre-order decision.
I'm more interested in preserving my current value than expanding my mining operation, and BFL honors dollar-for-dollar trade-ins up to 50% of the ASIC purchasing price.  

So I'm offering 9 BFL SC (ASIC) Singles up for pre-order (usually priced at 1299$) directly from BFL.  
With my trade-in I will be able to sell 9 units for 1120 USD each (that's a discount of 13.8%).  

If someone's interested in having all 9 available units, we will do this directly through BFL (your funds go to BFL, they will be told to send 9 units from my order directly to your address).
US Shipping is paid by me if all 9 units are bought (then they are shipped from BFL directly to you).

Actual shipping dates are at the mercy of BFL of course.

This offer will give you a serious discount if you are thinking to pre-order SC Singles!

PM if interested, buyers of the whole lot are preferred.  

Cheers!

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[crazyates]

So you have 9 BFL Singles (FPGA). You're going to trade them in for ASICs, and then sell those ASICs for a discount. I don't get it. Why not mine on the ASICs? Or sell them for a profit (rather than a discount) like i'm sure a bunch of other people are going to be doing?

[joshv06]

I PM'd you.

[sadpandatech]

So you have 9 BFL Singles (FPGA). You're going to trade them in for ASICs, and then sell those ASICs for a discount. I don't get it. Why not mine on the ASICs? Or sell them for a profit (rather than a discount) like i'm sure a bunch of other people are going to be doing?

That is how I read it, very strange indeed.

I am also fairly certain BFL will not allow you to drop ship your order to someone else. You will need to receive them and then remail them to the buyer.

[Meni Rosenfeld]

Or sell them for a profit (rather than a discount) like i'm sure a bunch of other people are going to be doing?

Because it's a pre-order. He's getting the funds now so he can use them to order the units. He's keeping his BFL exposure in check this way.

[wogaut]

Or sell them for a profit (rather than a discount) like i'm sure a bunch of other people are going to be doing?

Because it's a pre-order. He's getting the funds now so he can use them to order the units. He's keeping his BFL exposure in check this way.

This is basically true.

@ crazyates: In fact I have the processing power of 15 Singles, and I'm willing to give someone 9 (and 6 for me), as an incentive to take my offer. The total price for those 9 ASIC Singles is what BFL quoted me as a payment for 15 ASIC Singles upgrade (subtracting my trade-in).  So you basically get 9 for the price of 7.5 by paying my upgrade. I believe this is a better deal than ordering from BFLs web-page if you don't own a trade-in now.  

@ sadpandatech: BFL has shown the flexibility in the past to ship partial orders to different addresses (several posts of people selling ordered FPGA Singles before they got them). I will of course make sure that this works before finalizing any of this, and have the buy-in of everyone involved.

[crazyates]

Or sell them for a profit (rather than a discount) like i'm sure a bunch of other people are going to be doing?

Because it's a pre-order. He's getting the funds now so he can use them to order the units. He's keeping his BFL exposure in check this way.

This is basically true.

@ crazyates: In fact' I have the processing power of 15 Singles, and I'm willing to give someone 9 (and 6 for me), as an incentive to take my offer. The total price for those 9 ASIC Singles is what BFL quoted me as a payment for 15 ASIC Singles upgrade (subtracting my trade-in).  So you basically get 9 for the price of 7.5 by paying my upgrade. I believe this is a better deal than ordering from BFLs web-page if you don't own a trade-in now. 

@ sadpandatech: BFL has shown the flexibility in the past to ship partial orders to different addresses (several posts of people selling ordered FPGA Singles before they got them). I will of course make sure that this works before finalizing any of this, and have the buy-in of everyone involved.

Ah I think I see now. You want to upgrade all 15 of your FPGAs to ASICs, but don't want to spend another 10k USD in the process. So you're selling 9 ASICs to cover the cost of upgrading all 15. Thanks for the clarification.

[wogaut]

Since there were several individuals interested in less than the whole lot of 9, I have created a GLBSE listing to facilitate the sale to those that are interested:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92267.msg1016974#msg1016974

Have a look!