i didn't make it up, but you're totally right.. people don't seem to complain when they've bought inefficient old chips, as new. but you're absolutely right, people seem happy with buying AM's old stock 'as new'.
Please show me a single person who complained about receiving used hardware.
I've seen people in these forums praising AM to the stars for shipping 'excellent' products that consumed for some reason significantly more power than any other system available by a large margin, and calling them rock solid and fantastic systems. even those that consumed multiple watts per gigahash.
How many asics were less than 10w/gh before june?
Do the specs really matter when every single person who bought from AM turned a profit in USD and many even in BTC?
(promised to be 0.35 watts/GH in the spec, and ended up consuming a lot more).
Please stop saying it was promised because that's just not true. It was an estimation and as we all know estimations are wrong.