we discussed batch3 price for a long time.
personally, i do think this is a reasonable price.
batch#1: 1300USD + your trust, batch#2: 1500USD + your trust, batch#3 = ?
why batch 1 and batch2 customers will enjoy such a low USD price and extremly high profit? because they put their valuable trust on us.
last September, most of you think we have little chance to win, or could be a crappy scam, you don't buy.
this January, considerable people think we take Jeff down or just spent 400K to make a prototype, you don't buy.
now, everything on track, machines delivered to your hands are only a matter of time. you want to buy them at a same price or something like 2000USD.
OK, please tell me, what is the price of people most valuable things "trust" should be? 500USD? no, 5000USD at least.
as a core developer, i look upon all Avalons as my son. i will send them to who believe us, not the faithless or buzzard.
Heh, you just got greedy, but hey you can afford to since nobody else is shipping now. You can sell at a profit at $1500, but you can sell at $5000 so go for it.
Batch #3 at this point requires more trust than batch #2. Even at the same price, just by looking at the difficulty graph.
But it's not the same price, it's nearly 4 times as much.
I think you guys are legit but you got a bit too greedy. I will be surprised if you sell out at that price, but if you do then congratulations.
As users we are in this situation because others haven't delivered. But that's not your fault of course.