Some of the language on the Hashfast site makes me worried about when we put this order in.

Specifically from the third line of the Upgrade Kit description: "This offer is only valid while supplies last". I'm concerned that Hashfast is treating this upgrade more like an promotion, rather than an honest upgrade option for the Baby Jet Batch 1. So I think it would be good to upgrade as soon as possible, putting an order in as soon as we have enough shares bought between R1 and R2, or getting some clarification from Hashfast as to the ongoing availability of the Upgrade.

Including myself, it seems like there is a significant interest "picking up the slack" for these upgrade shares. I mean why would there not be? This is probably the cheapest $/Gh available until 2014. Along what thomas_s was saying, I think we should treat this upgrade as 40 (or 80 if we include both R1 and R2) new shares. Following the model of the original GB: Allow people to put in soft reservations, each person would be guaranteed their ability to upgrade their shares until a certain % of reservations/payments is hit, then a deadline for payment would kick in after which all unpaid shares would be made available to others in the GB. (Possibly through a bidding system or something else, can be decided upon once we get there...)

The current payments would obviously stand, but if something like 75% of the payments came in I think it is unfair to let the 25% remaining to hold back the rest of us (especially since there is good demand for their shares). You could insert whatever percentages you deem fair, but I think it's time to get the ball rolling on this.

This is all just a suggestion but having a little more structure/transparency to the upgrade process can not hurt. Any thoughts?