Although Avalon might of played it right by you, it's not very hard to see why others would not be as happy with them.
Not saying we should be happy with them, just that they are far from being the worst company out there but still they seem to have some of the most rabid haters around, they even rival BFL on that front
I just wanted to get my point across that when it comes to buying from their in stock items there isn't really much risk from my experience since they have a good track record on that side of their business that gets drowned in all the old "pre-order hate" noise.
Ok, I get what you're saying.
Avalon has moved to an in stock only model now, and Yifu isn't a part of the team any more. The people who are left are the engineers who made the magic happen back in 2013 and do NOT have money. Yifu walked away with it, yet the engineers trying to run a real business get the flak from his actions.
I'm not so sure about that, I think that was done just to save face.
Yifu owns BitSyncom, LLC. At the bottom of Avalon-asics.com (after being updated numerous times since Yifu's supposed dismissal is a copyright notice:
Copyright © 2012 - 2014 Avalon Project, BitSyncom LLC
Copyrighted for BitSyncom LLC through the year 2014. The year was updated to 2014. If BitSyncom is truly not involved with the project anymore then why is his company still listed in the Copyright?
If he had truly left and it was under different hands I would expect it to read:
Copyright © 2012 - 2014 Avalon Project, Some other company here
or
Copyright © 2012 - 2013 Avalon Project, BitSyncom LLC
Copyright © 2013 - 2014 Avalon Project, Some other company here
Again, this website has been updated numerous times since Yifu supposedly left the company.
He is on paper but he's not responded to the teams emails in months and months. As I said, the only people left (and running this company now) are the engineers, with little money. Yifu ran off to to work with the government about anonymity and took the millions with him.
He is the founder but he isn't the only owner.
He was there on purpose he has found nothing except bitcoin blogs back in 2011
That is all. The important for them is to stick to their business model and next day delivery