Quote from: Xian01 on July 28, 2015, 01:55:29 PM

Quote from: notlist3d on July 28, 2015, 05:29:07 AM

Quote from: luckypyrate on July 28, 2015, 01:18:32 AM

Just unboxed a couple S5's I bought a while back and found one of them had obviously been used excessively. It has soot all over the heatsink. I have submitted a WTF email to Bitmain...I guess they really are going downhill Sad

http://i.imgur.com/HFtddQ7.jpg

Let us know how it goes! That was not the "2nd hand" unit was it?
It was still a batch that showed new right?

Bitmain has been doing this for quite some time now - Passing off obviously used and dirty units as "brand new". I've received dirty and used "brand new units" myself.

It had been a while since the last "batch" of miners so they were plugged in for quite a bit compared to earlier batches I think. The raising of prices made less sells I think and then the batch kept lasting.

And I do give them credit to mark these right now as 2nd hand. They have all been run in a data center for a while, so the status change of new was the right thing to do.

I'm not unrealistic I know they need to be running and cant sit in a box. But I like the more honest status change.