Quote from: megvon on August 19, 2013, 02:41:20 AM

The Scary thought is not delivering on time. We need to have the Vendors to Guarantee Delivery on Time.

My Avalon is making about 0.8 BTC per day this week, down a lot from the 5 or 6 BTC/day estimated in mid March. I am in touch with the large amount of income that it could have made in March, April, May, and June.

Almost 10 years ago, I spent a very long time laying out a computer board, making prototype runs, getting the software right. I posted photographs of operational prototypes, and I tried to collect pre-paid funds to do a cheaper production run. I did not get the money, and I did not make the run. No one was angry with me, but no one got a product, and I was effectively unemployed during my development time.

KickStarter is a thriving crowd sourced pre-paid project funding environment, and it is very, very cool.

I am convinced, if Bitsyncom / Avalon had not taken pre-orders, that the angst surrounding them would not exist. I am also sure that I would not have an Avalon, and that the Avalon units that did sell would be much more expensive.

I am gathering funds now to make another pre-order paid with bitcoin. I hope enough other people will pre-pay so that the technology growth continues.