Quote from: Jutarul on July 16, 2013, 11:18:47 PM

Quote from: freedomno1 on July 16, 2013, 10:36:44 PM

In other competitor news

THIS IS THE OTHER AM

AM Launches The Worlds Fastest Bitcoin Mining Machine At 24.576 TH/s

SPRINGFIELD, MO, - July 16, 2013 - Active Mining (AM) and Virtual Mining Corporation (VMC) are announcing today the launch of the "World's Fastest Bitcoin Mining Machine". The Fast-Hash-One configured with 6 expansion cases and 96-256 GH/s bitcoin hashing cards makes it the Worlds fastest bitcoin mining machines hands-down. The machines use the "World's Fastest Bitcoin Mining Chip" the Fast-Hash-One 28nm 16 GH/s chip. The Fast-Hash-One machines starts at 256 GH/s with a retail price of $3,999 or $15.62 per GH/s also making it the price leader in the market place. The Fast-Hash-One series of bitcoin mining machines are "The Gold Standard Of Bitcoin Mining Machines"

The Fast-Hash-One is available at:

http://www.virtualminingcorp.com

I don't understand the strategy of various companies right now to provide pre-orders for products deliverable in 4 months at huge discounts when compared to CURRENT difficulty. Why don't they just wait until they have a product to sell and sell it at premium prices?

The uncertainty the miners have to go through when placing such an order is mind staggering. I cannot escape the conclusion that either these offers are of the same kind as from butterfly labs (dishonest, offloading delay risk) or their pricing is such, that they expect more return on their product when asking for the money now (dishonest, charging too high).

Of course there is also the slight chance that they haven't figured out proper pricing yet. Buyer beware.

The fact that the operator is outbidding HIMSELF by BTC5 for ads to sell more pre-orders should not induce confidence in those who have put faith in that operation.