Re: [ANN] Sfards: SF100－the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner gets into mass production
Remember they are the builders of the blade which came out last year at 3000 usd and dropped and dropped and dropped until they were under 200 on eBay.
The reasons for the price dropping aside, the fact that the price dropped over time at all is a good thing, surely? There's another thread where people are complaining about gear's pricing not going down (or even going up) 
When the gridseed blades came out we had the second factor 'Josh of paycoin' So the scrypt market had so much manipulation on so many levels I can't tell you that gridseeds choice to continually and quickly drop blade prices was the single factor that crashed scrypt.
I can say price wars combined with pretend mining By Josh/paycoin/GAW crashed scrypt.
But when spondoolies and bitmaintech had the sp20 s-5 price war btc went from 400 to 180 usd. So I would say flooding the market with good cheap gear has its risks and can drop price.
@ searing yeah you are basically correct and I should just leave this thread alone. But besides my mining addiction I have a blog post addiction.
I think I made 20,000 posts on
parts-express
anandtech
macrumers
123macmini
BFL forum - I was second only to josh before they banned me
Madisound
gaw's forum
and of course here.
When I look at the list above I think I made more then 25,000 posts. I have been posting on forums for 10 plus years.
Nah at first GAW was a legit reseller and even did real hosting to whatever pool you wanted. It wasn't until the virtualized the miners that things went to shit.
Well we can argue all day but between gridseeds flooding the market and dropping price time and time again plus Josh/Gaw selling phantom gear from July on scrypt got crushed. Now as a twist sFards has sold a batch out and has 2 other companies selling the gear.
I did a lot of business with zoomhash and they list this gear at 1999 just can't see this price and iTop at 1399 is far lower but still too high.
iTop up to $1500 now.