Quote from: BenTuras on June 05, 2014, 12:44:35 PM

Quote from: novello on June 05, 2014, 12:32:48 PM

Quote from: BenTuras on June 05, 2014, 11:45:35 AM

Quote from: novello on June 05, 2014, 11:40:56 AM

... get funding ...

You're asking for us to be investors, why not give us the benefits of investors in return ?

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your input.

Strictly speaking you're buyers, not investors. We promise you delivery of an item at a future date in return for your payment. I can see why you might think that though, your 'investment' , as it were, is to give you a commercial advantage when your item gets delivered.

As a company we will use virtually all the money we get in orders to fund system development, satisfy those orders and stay afloat while doing so. After that we have to try to solicit more orders to keep the company going and invest in R&D for new products.

My problem is this: I have done pre-orders before only to later see that the company used a big part of my payment to invest in their own mining farm, hurting me by increasing the network difficulty and lowering the amount of mBTC that I generate. So I "digged my own grave" by ordering from them and not being part of their profit rewards.

(They also promised they would never mine with their own equipment, yeah right).

Reward my order and payment by keeping me informed about the progress(no BS or lies), sending me a great product when it is ready and make me an investor with the benefits that come with that. That's how I would do a pre-order nowadays in bitcoin land.

Fair comment, and that's exactly what we would propose to deliver except that after you get you product we give you incentives to make more money in return for further production orders delivered exacty when needed. That's as close to an 'investor' reward as any company will give you. If you look at our proposal and our prediction for 'Jane', you'll see that we have absolutely no need to mine with customers machines, if every early customer took up our GSP program then we would make our margin off discounted machines/modules.

We are the only company that seems to have actually looked to the future after we get funded. Hashing farms are not on our radar, but we can see a tidal wave of the damn things approaching rapidly, so unless one of the existing manufacturers steps up to the plate and drops their prices very significantly, most miners are totally screwed.

I can only offer my sympathies for what happened to you before. Must have led a very bad taste in your mouth.