Yes you did misunderstand their plans. The reels being talked about come from existing orders placed at different times in the past by different people.
But no longer shipped to those people and offered openly for sale to anyone, aren't they? In which case I still think everyone else in the queue ought to be moved up and these reels sold at the end of the queue. But at least they aren't 'new' hashing power, so that's making me feel a bit better about it.
No way, these are unrelated batches. Why should people who have to pay more have to wait longer as well?
Huh? How should price matter given that they were already asking new orders to pay more per chip? And how are they unrelated batches? Are they not the same chip?
This sounds very customer unfriendly to me and I hope Barntech is talking to them about it because of that. They should have either moved our reel up, or have offered to move us up for an additional fee based on the difference to what our reel cost vs what the vacated spot in production was being charged.