Can't help but laugh at bfl still trying to put on a brave face. Really once you've used avalon I'm not really sure why anyone would bother with bfl. Whether they can be trusted to produce is not really a question of interest when they can't produce when they say they will. Until they have that trust they will always be in the shadows of avalon.
A) the number of Avalon's released is a small fraction of the number shipped from BFL. People ordered BFL because Avalon didn't have product to ship.
proof at all? ...or is this just re-hashing BFL's COO's fairy dust nonsense? As BFL refuses to issue numbers I'd be very interested in seeing your detailed breakdown upon which you made the above statement.
B) their prices are far more price-competitive than Avalon's.
Unless of course you factor in lead time. Then BFL's prices flat out suck and you'd likely have made much more by ordering from Avalon than BFL. You don't see many batch 1 or batch 2 pre-order customers complaining do you? Why do you suppose that is?
Not saying that people that went the Avalon route did bad. Indeed, they did great. But both routes were untested, the outcomes unknown in 2012. As for today? What can you order from Avalon? Anything besides raw chips? And aren't those having difficulty reaching their destination (not FUD, trully sounds like that's been the case).
Both outcomes were unknown in 2012, though both companies had FPGA products in the wild and one of those companies already had a history of deceit. If you sent equal funds to both companies in 2012 which do you suppose made you the highest ROI? How about 2013?