The flaw in your questioning is assuming what BFL tells you is true. I would put money on the fact that the Monarch works fine and has been sold in great quantities to large, under the radar, clients. The retail business is not a priority for BFL, just as it's not priority for BitFury.
EDIT - like most other miner manufacturers, they will sell us their scraps when it makes economic sense for them and not before. Bitmain being the only exception I have seen.
Sorry, it's and was intended to be a loaded question. I agree entirely with your sentiments, the question I asked doesn't have an answer short of "We're incompetent/don't know what we're doing/lying".
