Quote from: Bicknellski on September 16, 2013, 12:51:14 AM

Quote from: JackRabiit on September 15, 2013, 05:55:04 PM

Quote from: Bicknellski on September 15, 2013, 07:47:20 AM

Quote from: scooter on September 15, 2013, 06:43:29 AM

If I had the money I would buy some and quickly sell them for double on ebay.
It seemed to work well for people when the BE's came out.

Notice we are not selling them on Ebay?

Is that your way of saying "buy a bunch in a batch so you can resell and flip them for profit instead of mine on them like they are desinged for"

My way of saying we came to a knowledgeable part of the community, offered our wares at our price and have accepted our fate up or down on sales as opposed to "fleecing" people who might not have the same level of understanding or access to this forum. Reselling is fine, ebay is fine, just not how we have gone about it and no my statement merely points to the fact the we are trying whenever possible to be ethical in business practices. We are also trying to open up a positive dialogue with the community for future products. We want to do more to provide products that are available and meet the needs of this community.

It's your way of saying ... you made a mistake and want to pass that mistake off completely to the buyers and turn it into a profit for you.
(with a hidden - 'suckers')

Until ASIC, the needs of the community was hardware that mined more BTC than it cost.
People other than very late BTC miners, did this with GPUs and FPGAs.

Since ASIC, the standard for some ASIC chip and board manufacturers has been to sell hardware at a BTC price above what it will return and then pretend to be an idiot and not know that you are ripping people off ... or worse ... make up copious amounts of bullshit arguing that you aren't ripping people off but instead doing right by them.
The most common of these of late is: "Why sell hardware when you could make more mining with it - better to make EVEN more by selling it - and thus making the buyers lose BTC"

Of course this can be described as a ponzi if you realise that the only positive exit strategy is passing the loss on to the next buyer ... even if sometimes there is only one step - the first sale of the devices