Quote from: Tailgunner on August 31, 2018, 09:49:55 PM

It's shady because of perceived value pricing.

IMHO this doesn't even start qualifying as 'shady' as per Bitmain standards. They're selling units advertised at 10KSol/s - which can be overclocked by a minimum of 45% and a maximum of 60%. Period. 14.5 KSol/s is a great overclock over specs - whichever way you look at it. My batch 1 only achieves 15.5 KSol/s vs. the 16.5 - 17 KSol/s others are getting - there's some variation in batch 1 as well. Also, I've not heard of any Batch 2 machines which are getting less than 14.5 KSol/s.

"Shady practises" would include some of the following:

Selling the first batch at $1999 and then dropping them down to $1500 and $850 within a month's time.
Issuing coupons to people who paid full price for it - that's like saying - come on suckers - buy more from us if you want to make up for the drop in price.
Advertising as "limited to one unit per customer" and then changing that to 50 units per customer in a weeks time, and then making it unlimited after that.
Rebranding and releasing old models as new with some miniscule adjustments to dump old stock. S9, S9i, S9j - all basically the same machines. L3+, L3++ - same story.

And the list could go on and on.