If this goes on another 24 hrs I'm going to go on the offensive, personally. It appears someone with a large pro-BFL bet has gotten coinjedi's ear on this matter, and he is still "debating" in the face of overwhelming evidence for the correct decision:
The BFL ASIC never left the BFL Lab therefor it was never "shipped".

Avalons where photographed being unpacked from their shipping containers.
BFL doesn't have a working device.
Have you actually received any correspondence from BFL backers claiming to have won the bet? That would be sad and pathetic.
I guess you have two options.
1. pay the obvious winners
2. pay the losers or cancel the bet, thus destroying the credibility your business relies upon
What a dilemma.
What can be seen in the OP is NOT a finished product, nothing that will be shipped to customers.
When Avalon shipped the first two devices, those were the FINISHED products. The same products which were later received by "ordinary" customers.
This "shipping" by BFL is NOT comparable to what was shipped by Avalon.
People saying BFL has shipped should as well request to remove Matthew's scammer tag then.
sorry a prototype is NOT shipped.
If I produce 10 boards with crap hanging off them and screws holding them to a table , then supply them to developers that does not count as shipping.
totally done with betsofbitco.in. This is very damaging for their business, and it pisses me off to see one of the more respected, older btc gambling sites making decisions (or indecision) that are so clearly influenced by the obvious losing side of the statement.