Quote from: BTCInvestorPro on March 12, 2014, 12:09:00 PM

Quote from: coinpharmer on March 11, 2014, 07:58:19 PM

Quote from: Gator-hex on March 11, 2014, 07:04:25 PM

You're doomed on any pre-order when difficulty is rising 50% a month. Just a 1 month manufacturer delay can really kill your ROI plans! Tongue

thank you for this NEW information! as you may have noticed from previous posts, I have never seen this...

/sigh

does anyone bother reading before posting?

I understand many companies scammed people, hashfast, bfl, and many others. My personal experience with preorders however has been good. When I first bought a asic, it was a PREORDER from KNC, I did tons of research of all companies around that time, and considered and turned down bfl, hashfast, and all others in favor of knc because they were the only onesaccording to the research I did at the time, that was likely to follow through, and they did.

What Im looking for now is companies that are doing pre-orders that are new to the bitcoin mining industry. IF you dont know of any, or you only know of scams, just dont reply because YOU HAVE ZERO INFORMATION ON THE TOPIC. thanks =)

Bitmain has hinted that a follow on to their popular Antminer S1 is coming in the next few months if I were you I'd hold out for that.

There seem to be a ton of Chinese 1Th/s clones coming out as well as some companies out of Europe that are making custom boards based on BitFury, Bitmine or Avalon chips but none of them are being sold at a price that is attractive even for immediate delivery and most of these aren't expected for another 30 days at least. ASICMiner was also soliciting interest in their next generation stuff a few weeks back but no word on when they will accept orders or pricing.

If you want to take a huge gamble you could put in an order for "second gen" Hashfast or CoinTerra equipment which is really just their first gen chips with the bugs worked out of the PCB. Hashfast is essentially a soft scam though and CoinTerra while they have been more honest in their dealings haven't exactly lived up to their predictions.

excellent post, thanks for your opinions and tips.

I agree hashfast, and cointerra are no goes, to me they struck out with the track record they have of lies. Im going to continue looking, but for now it does seem like things are in between stages. I may be able to jump to a good thing in April though =)