What does your gut tell you?
My gut tells me that if I was TH on the verge of a large offering of equipment, I would be ever present in this forum, providing whatever was needed to make my new potential customers comfortable with sending me their money. Yet with 2.5 hours to go until they start taking orders on devices that they do not have a working prototype on, they are absent.
Either they won't provide the proof that they ordered chips, or they will do it at the very last minute which is extremely suspicious.
20,000 chips costs a lot of money.
All we have seen to date is a single 95% populated PCB, 30 avalon chips and some pictures of an office space.
It's borderline, barely enough data to get you comfortable, so my question is why not provide enough to get everyone warm and fuzzy?
+1. You need an acknowledged member to go and document meeting them in person with a pre-determined Q&A in mind (not plugging me again, anyone can do it). You need more evidence, you
need to ascertain when exactly those chips were ordered, wallet/blockchain transaction info at least. As of yet you have had a few pics of an empty serviced office.