Being a BA customer is like renting the downstairs apartment in an outhouse.
^This
With the broken promises and delays, this sums up exactly how i feel. I am finally at the point where i am one more delay away from pulling out completely. Granted i am only in for 2 X-1's, but we are almost halfway through april and BA don't even have a working prototype... Come on BA, this is getting ridiculous.
I have said many times that I am warning people to go the refund route. This debacle will probably get worse as you pointed out there is no working prototype and they are 3 weeks away from delivery time. They are betting that the chip will be absolutely perfect and to their specifications, which as far as I am concerned, has only happened maybe once in bitcoinland. Every manufacturer has had to go back and tweak things. IF there is another delay, there will essentially be a bank run on getting refunds and I doubt BA will be able to afford to pay all refunds, leaving some holding the ball of worthless products. Get yours before its too late! That is my warning!
Another question. It seems that AsisMiner has gotten sample chips on a bullet run in order to test the chip before ordering a mass production run. Did BA not run a bullet run? Are they betting everything on these chips to work and have paid and run the entire first two batches on a chip that hasn't passed all tests? That seems pretty scary to me.