I only see people hanging on for a long stretched out hope that they will get a miner sometime soon. I don't think the current status of BFL indicates this is likely. If they lose their money, they won't be putting it in elsewhere. Usually I am a pessimist. So you will have to take that into account when reading my texts.

People are free to stay with BFL and hang on for as long as they want. In either scenario, I have thought of a winning strategy. The only people who eventually will lose out are those that may overstay in a bad situation due to mis-placed hope.

If the orders go out too slowly then BFL will fuck with peoples minds...just like they did a few weeks ago. Making it appear as if people were suddenly getting their orders. Instead a bunch of reviewers and BFL Shills got hardware. In many cases hardware they didn't even order.

If you don't know this, then you should read BFL forums.

To keep the smoke screen up, they had jody seemingly post that orders were going out. They had everyone agree that they wanted their order or a refund. Then they kept people in the dark about how many orders were going out each day. This is what is called blowing smoke up a customers ass.

Josh was forced to acknowledge that the [total] stream of 35 prototype orders came to a grinding halt no sooner than it started.

Now they tell people (new false hope) that they have an incredible 100 chips coming in "soon". Followed by unspecified "hundreds" "next week".

OMG, how people can be strung along with hope...

Truly, a machiavellian is at the head of BFL, in my opinion, LOL. I'll put my money on BFL if there is no better option afforded to me. Otherwise I will look for Avalon Clones or real Avalons.

When BFL ships in quantity and they can keep the production levels nice and high and run through their order queue at a decent speed...then I will put money down. Not before. Right now, BFL is a time bomb where everything that can go wrong, has. In light of that reality I am letting common sense take helm and not misplaced hope.

If every BFL customer did that, they would probably be better position to handle the situation. Right now, BFL has them by the nads (gripped tightly). (In my opinion)

I am a wait and see spectator at this point. I will just keep pointing out the obvious. People can take heed or get squashed by the situation they should have noticed.