The sales price of chips stay a relatively high margin because our option of building our own devices and sell/deploy is always wide open.
Basing your assumptions on a rumor from a competing company's CEO who has been wrong countless times and almost never right is simply idiotic.
FC has outright denied the rumors started by Guy that AM is selling at cost and FC's word can be taken at face value unlike Guys.
Guy has never been a reliable source and he has proven he will say anything that could garner a few more preorders.
Then it's a matter of who we trust. You trust FC. I trust Guy. I am sure that he doesn't want to build a career in bitcoin mining based on lies and on false rumors just like others. He plans to be in this business for a long time and his actions towards his customers prove my point. Don't mistake him with scammer Josh Zerlan or with redbull boy Joshua Zipkin who has no problem stealing money from old army veterans. Care to elaborate the countless times when he was wrong? And don't give me the SP30 specs.
Guess we will have to wait to see how will this unfold, but the reason that I don't believe FC is because he also stated that the self mining started mid-july, but there is no evidence for that except that they have 200Th/s on BTCGuild. No dividends, no official speed, nothing.
So you are just advertising and earning money for every sale you are responsible for correct? I'm not sure how that isn't a form of selling.
Again, why not sell advertise hardware for BFL?
First of all I wasn't aware that BFL had an affiliate program. Second of all I don't intend to support hardware that is being shipped 13 months later and that is bad quality. I think that being fair and trying to recommend good products/services has more returns than trying to make a quick buck while screwing people.
I see no problem in earning some money by supporting a good product. You are earning money too in form of dividends when you are supporting AM's products so it's the same thing. Except that people can see that I am affiliated to a company, while you don't seem to be affiliated to any company to a newbie when in fact you are an AM shareholder so from my point of view I am being more fair than you. When your signature will be "AM shareholder" then we will be equals regarding products/companies affiliation.