Seriously, what is it with all the vitriol? Avalon so far has a lot of happy customers so far, they aren't anything like BFL. I get some people are mad but so far the vast majority of Avalon customers have gotten what they paid for, and Batch 3 orders are shipping if you check the thread.
Avalon haven't shipped "vast majority", he's just shipped 1 of 100's of batches of chips. Avalon batch #1 + #2 + #3 miners are financially a joke comparing to value of the chip batches. Just to remind you one batch is priced 782.1 BTC, worth of all batches is estimated over 10 mil US$, so shipping few batches of miners puts Avalon just a bit in front of BFL regrading per-orders taken from their customers. At least BFL has excuse that they have manufacturing problems, Avalon just has to forward the money, they do not even manufacture those chips, so no excuse for them. That's why all the vitriol.