Quote from: Biffa on August 15, 2014, 02:08:25 AM

Quote from: Stevbenson on August 15, 2014, 12:30:31 AM

Quote from: Biffa on August 14, 2014, 07:49:04 PM

Quote from: Stevbenson on August 13, 2014, 11:40:54 PM

Halfway through August! When will they start shipping this GB? Undecided

Surely they must have some idea by now when they can start shipping it... It was in the first August batch after all...

Are you two days ahead of the rest of us? Halfway is the 15th not the 13th Roll Eyes

Thanks for sharing your email. However it's not particularly useful as it is already the 15th and if they were to ship after the 30th it would no longer be in August... I had kind of already assumed this...

Now to address your needless sarcasm...

Let me guess you are an American?

I guess this because it is generally those from the most self obsessed nation on the planet that fail to realise that it is a different date and time at different places on the planet "Gasp!".

I'm sure that this will come as a surprise to you but I posted that at about 10AM of the 14th in my time zone. I know I was a whole 14hrs before it was halfway through the month (according to you). Seriously who fucking cares it's basically halfway through... why must you be such a fucking pedantic arsehole?

I mean do you really think people will read your post a think 'wow that guy he's seriously smart pointing out its not precisely halfway through the month, how clever!'.

The point remains it's approximately halfway through the month and they haven't stated when they will start shipping. Since there are two batches in August and this GB was in the first batch I think they should announce that by now... Also if they do wait until the 30th (as they say they might in your email) to start shipping this GB then it would mean the august batch 2 will not be on time or it got shipped out ahead of these GB orders. Neither of those things are good...

Sincerest apologies for the sarcasm :p You need to get a thicker skin if you are going to get involved in this game, truly, if a tiny bit of tongue in cheek smartarsery gets you this riled up.

Seriously though, you could at least wait till the 15th, which is when they have been telling most people who care to ask them, when the GB will ship. Its also middle of the month, which really was a day away. I only posted the email to hint that you could have just asked them yourself Cheesy

Although I can see why you might be upset if you thought that the group buy was in the first batch.

My understanding all along has been that the Roadstress GB was not in the first August batch, so depending on your order number you will be sometime between the 15th and the 30th, as will I.

And no I'm not an American or even in America, you post was at 11:40PM on August 13 in my time zone, which is only 2 hours ahead of Israel time zone. Just bear that in mind on August 15th that your about 8 hours ahead when you throw your toys out of your pram once more you bogan Wink

Lol I am a bit of a bogan aren't I... and I am riled up but I have misplaced my anger towards you, your sarcasm just tipped me over the edge. Sorry for swearing at you.

Also I have emailed Spondoolies for estimated shipping dates twice... no responses... I'm asking people here because they have ignored me.

Ok so if the GB is not part of batch one it must still be before batch two as I am positive that they did not start advertising batch two until the GB had ended.

So that means the GB must come after batch one but before batch two. I still don't see how they can be shipping your GB unit on the 30th and then still have time to ship batch two?

Now my rant...

I know this account is new but I have been at this for quite some time and have dealt with multiple ASIC manufacturers and you know what when something goes wrong it's always the customer that get's shafted.

This whole fiasco with the sp30 reminds me a lot of what happened with cointerra. They failed to deliver on their specs by a similar margin, they however did the right thing and offered refunds... unfortunately for them ALOT of people refunded and they ran out of money and it pretty much destroyed their reputation when they couldn't pay all the refunds, some had to wait many many months. But it was the right thing to do to offer a refund.

Spondoolies isn't offering a refund but rather a vague promise of a partial refund some time in October...

I'm just sick of these ASIC companies and their bullshit, if they wanted to fix their reputation they would at least be transparent about the shipping.

How many units do they ship a day?
How many units until your order number?
Equals many days until your order ships.

To work out an approximate date is not fucking rocket science Its just adding! Not replying to emails or telling you sometime between 15th-30th is unacceptable. I mean that's half the fucking month, we already know it has to be some time in august, they may as well have just told you nothing!

IF we ever get a partial refund then they might be able to say they have screwed their customers slightly less than cointerra did... Until then they are shipping greatly underspecced units with no refund and no compensation that's the reality. Nobody should be 'pleased' with this situation.

Even if we ever get the comp spondoolies have said its based on the $/Gh but what about the W/Gh? Its gone from 0.46W(still in the title of this thread) to 0.67W, ~50% increase! This greatly effects the profitable lifetime of the device because power is NOT free. I saw lots of people raise this point on the main spondoolies thread but they were all ignored.

Of course this wouldn't be a problem if they just did the right thing and offered refunds but they won't do that because they know they will have too many refunds and it will destroy their company just like cointerra.

So even though Cointerra fucked over their customers at least they did the moral thing they risked their business to offer refunds when they failed. Spondoolies won't even take this risk, it's shameful really.

To anyone who thinks the compensation will make up for the under delivered specs. YOU ARE DREAMING! If Sponds had the money to make us all whole then they would just offer refunds plain and simple. What we MIGHT get is PARTIAL compensation but we will NOT be made WHOLE.

Rant over.