Xian01
Legendary
 Offline
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1067
Christian Antkow
|
 |
January 26, 2015, 10:13:13 AM |
|
Wow  Took less than 48 hours for them to raise their prices from $341 to $370 I hate it when my gut is right in situations like this Very disappointing to see this sort of transparently greedy behavior from Bitmain. |
|
|
|
|
sk8erskid420
Jr. Member
Offline
Activity: 46
Merit: 4
|
|
January 26, 2015, 10:19:41 AM |
|
just letting people know, Zoomhash still has the s5's selling at $325 with cc, paypal and bitcoin as a payment option. will prob change fast but thought I'd let yah know. I don't work for them, just noticed they are the cheapest I've found right now
|
|
|
|
|
sEpuLchEr
Sr. Member
Offline
Activity: 248
Merit: 250
Are we there yet?
|
|
January 26, 2015, 10:33:30 AM |
|
Ok.... I'm speechless.... removing a discount is valid... but price increase due to rising price of BTC... now that is just wrong....
|
|
|
|
Tupsu
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1218
Merit: 1003
|
|
January 26, 2015, 10:58:53 AM |
|
vote with your money - don't buy until they reduce it back.
btw maybe someone will make SP20 groupbuy?
I just did that and bought 3xSP20 Order 4400 Cheaper than 3x Antminer S5 3.954 BTC versus 4.169 BTC |
|
|
|
|
|
pekatete
|
|
January 26, 2015, 11:49:43 AM |
|
OK, so you put off your buying and now BTC has experienced a fillip and all of the sudden bitmain are greedy?
When BTC was falling, everyone with a keyboard was shouting at bitmain to tag their BTC price to USD so they could buy in fiat, and also asked for fiat outlets e.g Amazon et al, to which they obliged. They went further and offered a 15% discount for a period after setting up the fiat channels.
Still some jombas put off their buying decision. Now the discount is gone, BTC is rising against USD ..... you only have yourselves to blame!
But all we have in this thread now is mourning and whining .... guys, what do you really want? You want to see bitmain go bust?
|
|
|
|
|
aclass
|
|
January 26, 2015, 11:52:48 AM |
|
If BTC goes a little more up and the price of S5 does not go up with it, it will be all good. We will wait and see.
|
|
|
|
|
yslyung
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1500
Merit: 1002
Mine Mine Mine
|
|
January 26, 2015, 12:45:47 PM |
|
If BTC goes a little more up and the price of S5 does not go up with it, it will be all good. We will wait and see.
it's gonna go up for sure, SP's game this time round |
|
|
|
|
dcweb
Newbie
Offline
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
|
 |
January 26, 2015, 12:48:00 PM |
|
I am not happy with you BitmainTech for raising the price as I am purchasing. When I added the product to my cart it was USD$341 yet when I committed to the order it changed to USD$370. How dare you rip us customers off like that. It is just not the right thing to do if you are wanting to keep your existing customers!!! How dare you change the price as an order is going through.
Edit: It might have only been 0.1BTC at the time but that is not the point. I saved up for that and don't expect a company to trick me into paying a higher price than what was advertised.
|
|
|
|
|
jelin1984
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 2408
Merit: 1004
|
|
January 26, 2015, 12:48:38 PM |
|
Why bitmain
Put it at 370 dollars
Was 310 dollars
And now 370 dollars
Why these is awful
|
|
|
|
|
Xian01
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1067
Christian Antkow
|
|
January 26, 2015, 02:37:18 PM
Last edit: January 26, 2015, 02:57:45 PM by Xian01 |
|
<snip>
But all we have in this thread now is mourning and whining .... guys, what do you really want? You want to see bitmain go bust?
No. I don't want to see them go bust. But I also don't want to see them raising the fiat price in step with BTC fluctuations. Are you suggesting Spondoolies raise the prices of their SP20's from $479 to $529, and we should be OK with that ? This is just bad business from a consumer standpoint all around. Insulting even. I was about to purchase two at $310, communicated with Yoshi to resolve a coupon discrepancy, got distracted with real life, come back and the price was raised. Yeah.... no.  |
|
|
|
|
|
pekatete
|
|
January 26, 2015, 02:45:59 PM |
|
I was about to purchase two at $310, communicated with Yoshi to resolve a coupon discrepancy, got distracted with real life, come back and the price was raised.
So why mourn at bitmain? Mourn at real life ...... it's the one that distracted you from the bargain of the century .... Yeah.... no. |
|
|
|
Xian01
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1067
Christian Antkow
|
|
January 26, 2015, 02:51:29 PM |
|
So why mourn at bitmain? Mourn at real life ...... it's the one that distracted you from the bargain of the century .... Yeah.... no. Are you suggesting the competition raise the prices of their goods from $479 to $529, and we should be OK with that ? Psychology Question for you: If I was hesitant purchasing something at $341, why should I be less hesitant to purchase it at $370 ? Why would I have more motivation to purchase at $370 when it was just $341 earlier ? $310 a day before that. |
|
|
|
|
dogie
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1185
dogiecoin.com
|
|
January 26, 2015, 02:53:47 PM |
|
Bitmain are real scumbags they just raised the price to $370 as of this post. The can go ram it up the furthest part of there ass fuck you BITMAIN !
Tone down your language please. You don't have to buy it if you don't like the price. This isn't food or water here. |
|
|
|
philipma1957
Legendary
 Online
Activity: 4312
Merit: 8871
'The right to privacy matters'
|
|
January 26, 2015, 02:59:11 PM |
|
So why mourn at bitmain? Mourn at real life ...... it's the one that distracted you from the bargain of the century .... Yeah.... no. Are you suggesting the competition raise the prices of their goods from $479 to $529, and we should be OK with that ? Psychology Question for you: If I was hesitant purchasing something at $341, why should I be less hesitant to purchase it at $370 ? Why would I have more motivation to purchase at $370 when it was just $341 earlier ? Yeah I finally got my coupon fixed was going to buy 3 units at 310 use 3x 45 dollar coupons pay only 96 to ship. so 3 x 310 = 930 and 3 x 45 = 135 net = 795 shipping = 96 total = 891 coins were 236 at the time so 3.79 coins. I went to sleep on it woke up coins were 245 price went to 341 not 310. I grabbed 1 sp20 on ebay for 409 got 4% off = 392 I sold 5.5 coins for a 100 dollar profit. And I purchased a miner from lee here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=934581.0 this is a better deal then buying direct from bitmaintech |
|
|
|
|
pekatete
|
|
January 26, 2015, 02:59:19 PM |
|
So why mourn at bitmain? Mourn at real life ...... it's the one that distracted you from the bargain of the century .... Yeah.... no. Are you suggesting the competition raise the prices of their goods from $479 to $529, and we should be OK with that ? Psychology Question for you: If I was hesitant purchasing something at $341, why should I be less hesitant to purchase it at $370 ? Why would I have more motivation to purchase at $370 when it was just $341 earlier ? The competition do not set the price for bitmain. In any case, in a perfect market, buyers will choose the lower price (and for some reason I believe bitmain know this obscure fact), so go ahead and buy from the competition. Answer to your psycology question is simple, I wonder why you could not figure it out. (and there-in lies your answer, thing is, can you figure that out?) |
|
|
|
philipma1957
Legendary
Online
Activity: 4312
Merit: 8871
'The right to privacy matters'
|
|
January 26, 2015, 03:00:19 PM |
|
Bitmain are real scumbags they just raised the price to $370 as of this post. The can go ram it up the furthest part of there ass fuck you BITMAIN !
Tone down your language please. You don't have to buy it if you don't like the price. This isn't food or water here. and un-like total recall (older movie with arnold) it is also not air |
|
|
|
|
alienesb
|
|
January 26, 2015, 03:01:00 PM |
|
So why mourn at bitmain? Mourn at real life ...... it's the one that distracted you from the bargain of the century .... Yeah.... no. Are you suggesting the competition raise the prices of their goods from $479 to $529, and we should be OK with that ? Psychology Question for you: If I was hesitant purchasing something at $341, why should I be less hesitant to purchase it at $370 ? Why would I have more motivation to purchase at $370 when it was just $341 earlier ? The competition do not set the price for bitmain. In any case, in a perfect market, buyers will choose the lower price (and for some reason I believe bitmain know this obscure fact), so go ahead and by from the competition. Answer to your psycology question is simple, I wonder why you could not figure it out. (and there-in lies your answer, thing is, can you figure that out?) I would be surprised if Spondoolies doesn't raise prices and stop pay-pal payments again. |
|
|
|
|
Xian01
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1067
Christian Antkow
|
|
January 26, 2015, 03:06:54 PM |
|
Answer to your psycology question is simple, I wonder why you could not figure it out. (and there-in lies your answer, thing is, can you figure that out?)
Lets be clear. I'm a huge fan of Bitmain's (still don't have a t-shirt though...) and look forward to purchasing more of their products, but this price maneuvering is unpalatable. Not trying to troll and derail the thread, but if you could kindly answer my simple query, rather than dance around the issue, I would appreciate it. Help me understand the psychology here. "If I was hesitant purchasing something at $341, why should I be less hesitant to purchase it at $370 ? Why would I have more motivation to purchase at $370 when it was just $341 earlier ? $310 a day before that."Furthermore, BTC appears to be trending down. How should one feel if they purchased at $370 right now, and later today, the price is reduced to $360 ? |
|
|
|
|
|
SockPuppetAccount
|
|
January 26, 2015, 03:13:49 PM |
|
I saw the BTC prices this morning and ran to order 3-4 more from Bitmain. Then I saw the price rise.
Bitmain, just peg the price of the S5 to bitcoin already, because that's basically what you are doing anyway.
|
|
|
|
|
Biodom
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 3948
Merit: 4471
|
|
January 26, 2015, 03:15:20 PM |
|
Answer to your psycology question is simple, I wonder why you could not figure it out. (and there-in lies your answer, thing is, can you figure that out?)
Lets be clear. I'm a huge fan of Bitmain's (still don't have a t-shirt though...) and look forward to purchasing more of their products, but this price maneuvering is unpalatable. Not trying to troll and derail the thread, but if you could kindly answer my simple query, rather than dance around the issue, I would appreciate it. Help me understand the psychology here. "If I was hesitant purchasing something at $341, why should I be less hesitant to purchase it at $370 ? Why would I have more motivation to purchase at $370 when it was just $341 earlier ? $310 a day before that."and while they raised the price in response to btc 250 to 310 move, why not drop the price accordingly if btc goes from 310 to 277? i say that bitmain needs to keep a fixed $ price and stop jerking it around almost daily-it only annoys people. |
|
|
|
|
|
