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.
Did you not read what Cowboy said?
"The good news is, this batch will cost slightly more, but arrive at an earlier date. This batch of chips goes for 67500 for 3000 and ships September 20th. Should put chips around $30-$35? I'm hopeful the boards will be priced nicely and let us get hashing a bit earlier for a bit more money. A compromise I'll certainly make on my next four boards"
Early batches cost more than later ones as a rule, that's just how paying of the mask and dev costs goes. What's more the first batch came from the US distributor, and this one looks like it's from the EU distributor, either that or the US have suddenly started quoting in Euros.