So a little update. Our distributor upped the price of Asus cards due to the high demand, so I dropped them and put in an order for 80 Gigabyte R9 280X cards.
So... you mean that ... you did not actually have a deal set up when you told investors about your plans?
I'm fairly certain they came up with this entire idea overnight because it shows. However the bigger problem is who wants 280x's? And did they really just claim to have ordered 80 of them? Now, it sounds like to me they just suckered people into buying them 80 GPU's that they will sell back to you for whatever your coins are worth. This could get worse...