Is that the finished board or prototype? Seems like a heavy premium for a 2 week head start over the licensed partners ship date @ $1100.
These are finished boards from what we can tell (we are not board experts of course, but hey, they hash).
And when have "official ship dates" ever been accurate in the mining world?

There's also the benefit in knowing that these boards work vs. having to deal with dead board/RMA issues.