No I never said that they should sell anything with zero profit. You are saying it makes sense to remove all those parts forcing some unlucky buyer to pay for nonbulk replacements.
Forcing who to do what exactly? I'm not forcing anyone to buy or do anything, it would entirely up to them to buy or not.
$8/kg MOQ of 100 units and absolutely no information regarding it's thermal dissipation characteristics. Good choice.
You can't use arbitrary/unrealistic numbers to make a point.
Absolutely I can, it's obvious now that you either a) missed the point entirely; or b) you're trying to prove some other point. I'm going to go with the latter.
My numbers are based on something at least. Hashratios bulky inefficient miners costs less than $0.8/gh to produce using chips that cost $0.35/gh.
Well they're not, and even if they were it is absolutely irrelevant to my point.
I estimate bitmain would save ~$40 per S3 by recycling S1 parts. (being optimistic. It's probably much less)
ribbon cables: $1
heatsink: $20
fan: $5
40 screws:$5
case: $10
Again, who cares what BITMAIN saves or doesn't. If the the numbers are such that it makes more financial sense to upgrade the S1's than to buy new S3's then it makes financial sense to do so. Pulling numbers out of your ass and arguing what you
think BITMAIN's costs are or arent' is moot.
And you would be forcing whoever buys your hardware to pay ~$75 to replace the $40 worth of parts you recycled.
Again, not my problem and I'm not forcing anyone to do anything. I'm guessing if I sell them at $0.25GH/s they're going to sell instantly regardless of what whomever has to buy them must do.
So in this case you could either sell a complete S1 for ~$150 or 2 blades for ~$75 (assuming anyone actually wants to buy and reassemble them)
Did you even read my earlier comments? I don't think you did, so I'm not even going to waste any more effort painting this picture for you. You're hung up on a lot bullshit non-issue points that are irrelevant to my original comment. I see now that the people who were talking about having you on ignore in the KnC thread wised up to you long ago, and for good reason. I think I'll follow their lead on this one.