ethical... eg. they promissed to not flood the hashrate and dont ship new machines till march/2014...
No insult to you RenHoek as I don't know you, but don't you think that is just idiotic logic?
As someone said just above, between now and March/14 we're in another black hole of who ships what and when. CoinTerra or HF ship? Trouble for Neptunes. BFL pulls one out and starts dropping Monarchs left and right? More trouble. AM delivers anything that isn't first gen crap? More trouble. Don't forget folks like BitFury who have no shame targeting another vendor (do we remember the BitFuryStrikesBack graphic?
). The only thing KNC ensures by not shipping is that people are going to point their paying power elsewhere because the mining market is both vicious and hungry for hardware, so this February HashFactoryOmega may start selling a kajillion 200GH units for a reasonable price and flooding the market, destroying any hopes of Neptunes being worth such a long-term pre-order phase.
The market moves fast - heck, look at those BitMain folks, selling stuff like hotcakes in their auctions. Nothing - nothing - is stopping someone just like them from saying whatev', let's make our retirement by totally killing the mining market and walking away. All KNC is doing is giving themselves R&D and testing time.
their protection statement has an exception clause
If other competitors dare to mess up the market, KNC reserves the right to protect its customers. And with dumping prices to protect their interests!