Interested
How many people do you have working on this?
If you're moving 1500 units you'll need a certain amount of security and physical infrastructure to handle all the orders. Do you have pictures of the facility you'll use to process everything without things getting stolen?
Do you have an actual address? (Not just a PO box)
What happens if you don't get enough actual orders during preorder?
How does the ROI using your FPGA compare to using an Amazon EC2 F1 instance?
Not to jump in, but Im handling the physical side. This volume of goods is cheap in the big world tbh. Also kind of funny to imply physical security is a risk and then ask for the address of the warehouse holding the cards in a public forum.
I wasn't asking where are you storing the items, but are you an actual company, with an office somewhere? I'm sure you've seen cases where people start multi million dollar ICOs and the only address they can provide is a studio apartment above someone's pizza shop.
You write "this volume of goods is cheap in the big world". What does that even mean? Any way you look at it this not a "cheap" group buy considering you're asking for several million dollars of funding on an internet forum and apparently have no other presence than that?
It's a little insulting to say that questions about security are "funny" and if that's how you treat customers on very first contact then I guess I'm not so interested. I would not want to have to deal with someone's snooty attitude if there is some kind of problem with the hardware.
Good luck to you.
ps. You might want to select a better company name. "All Mine" sounds like
"you gave me your money and now it's 'All Mine'"Thanks for the laugh. In seriousness though, It's strange for you to react in this way while using a strawman in the same breath. He never implied that your questions were funny, but that the prospect of asking for pictures of the warehouse and knowing it's physical location was; as answering your question would do the precise thing you voiced concerned for. It wasn't clear at the time, it did sound like that is what you were asking.
Our side doesn't have a physical location and this is why gpuhoarder is handling the physical side. Our engineers are spread all over the world. For me at least, this is just SOP. In many ways, working online is better than working at a physical location as there's always a record of all conversations. No confusion, no "oh i thought so and so..."... Do you have any idea how much I'd need to charge if I wanted a physical office? I'd need 2 offices in europe, an office in asia, an office in australia, and at least 2 offices in the USA. All of these offices with the exception of 1 would only have 1 person it. One of the EU locations would have 3 (assuming those people wanted to waste 2 hours of their lives daily commuting). To me, that just seems like an incredible waste of time and money. So, if you want me to have a physical office, let me know, and you can pay for it when you buy your cards. If you want cheap cards with a very low margin then you'll have to live with cost cutting measures that have been applied. Also, I'm curious, do you use poloniex?
I will be on-site when the cards are being S&H, tested, etc. If GPUHoarder wants to give out information on his offices it's up to him.
I've personally already handled millions of $ worth of hardware (from customers) and haven't had any problems. In the one case where things went bad, I covered losses and customers were made whole. If you want someone who does business another way, go talk to one of the plethora of amazing and transparent mining companies out there..... Oh wait, right, there are none... Feel free to go through my 7+ years of post history..