Bitmain was requiring me to send the whole miner to China and other people claim it takes at least 8 weeks to get it back, plus the chip is bad because of my own fault and really shouldn't be under warranty.
Like I said before, I would be more than happy to pay you $100 for a working chip if you want to scrap your board so I don't have to. Its not gouging when people are willing to pay it happily.
bitmain has an option to send the board to a repair place in ca for in warranty repairs. even if you have to send ur whole miner in its far less than $100 if ur inside the us. as for people being happily willing to pay it...im not so sure about that one lol. bitmain warranty will repair a board for $200 or so shipped. they will charge $200 even if the chip is provided. i can remove chips from the boards if needed but i rather not price gouge the hell outta people for $100 per chip. its not right and the markup is insane especially since theres no way to guarantee that the chips removed will function properly.