It's shady because of perceived value pricing.
"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.
Exactly, it's not like this is Bitmain's first sin. This just happens to be the one that finally pushed me over the edge.
Also, how are batch 2s getting 14.5k sols/s? I haven't gotten mine yet but from what I've read if I understand correctly they locked them down so no more OC.