With an amazon storecard you can get e.g. 12 month interest free financing. I took advantage of this when I first got into mining, buying thousands of dollars worth of gpus and other hardware without paying a cent, mining for six months or so and holding until the value of the crypto hits a good peak, then cashing out and paying off the hardware. Really wish I had my cash right now instead of these paperweights, but if I had waited for them to be on Amazon at least I could have the paperweights AND cash for a while. I think they're legit and facing actual issues slowing them down, not conning, but it's frustrating to take more of a risk and actually get less of a reward versus someone who waited around longer.
There are so many others out there in a similar situation. Credit stretched and expecting a return, within 365 days at the least. If they had known a more realistic timeframe on this project they would have never bought into it. Or simply waited. It was misleading at the least. Perhaps me using the word "con" was a bit strong. But this software delay is really inexcusable. Giving unrealistic software release dates that basically guide peoples buying decisions into purchasing is borderline outright lying to your customers.
If not for selling the hardware upfront, the delays would be acceptable.
But with no software yet still, and hardware selling in apparent unlimited quantities, it makes for a bad look indeed.