Yes, he wrote that he will offer bare pcb, but since i was in the shop nearly right after the start and it was "sold out" i think he wont will sell them from the start.
But then why list them at the launch under the label "Sold Out".
I think you might be underestimating the buying power of a few select members of this forum. There were a few people on here that purchased full 10,000 chip orders before zefir purchased his first batch, which have already shipped out. They need a lot of PCBs for their chips and I can see even just one of these buyers taking 1,000 boards or more in one order. Paid for in bitcoins of course. Im sure burnin himself will let us know what happened to the PCBs soon.
Yes, i know that those buyers exist. You know the address where avalon collect the chip batch payments? It has to be many private buyers with deep pockets.
I doubt that there were many people able to finalize their orders at all because of the basket problems. When i think about it... the pcb's are bare, without any parts (at least thats what burnin told me for my dev-list (sig)). That means a buyer of bare pcb's cant do anything with it without knowing the parts used. And those parts arent public yet am i wrong? So a buyer only could start with assembly once burnin opened his design. And this can take long, which means a risk. Then those buyers need to order the parts and so on. Its too much risk and waiting time involved.
The big buyers i know targetted for avalon clones from the start because they didnt want to risk anything. Big order and so... the other part is targetting klondikes. There are good offers for wholesale buyers for klondike assembly out there, though not public. So i doubt a bit that one of these buyers bought the bare pcb's and now wait. Of course only if the parts arent known already. But that has to be part of the open source design. Otherwise it would only the software thats missing and thats not the worst part. Too risky for burnin i think.