Quote from: kibblesnbits on June 24, 2012, 04:50:13 AM

Quote from: crazyates on June 24, 2012, 04:30:42 AM

Quote from: 1l1l11ll1l on June 24, 2012, 04:05:17 AM

Quote from: duukat on June 24, 2012, 03:52:25 AM

I understand what BFL is saying when they want to give Bit-Pay the first round of pre-orders. But why would they also accept bank wire transfers? Are they doing it just because those are the two non-reversible payment options? They can obviously take Pay-Pal because they take it on there other products. Seems really sketchy to me. I can't believe this many people are willing to throw money at BFL without even so much as a picture of what they are buying.

Seriously. I mean, have they even shipped any real products yet? And if they did, they probably only shipped those products to gain people's confidence so they'd make a huge haul and then disappear.

Where's my tinfoil hat.

If they were gonna drop hat and run, why would they ship 60k worth of Mini-Rigs days before opening the Preorders? And yes, I did just answer both of your questions at once.

I'll field that one. If I sell out of all my FPGA inventory and plan on skipping town, what better way than to promise a game-changing product that won't be shipped until October (at best). Right now they have over 150 orders, each of them at least $150. Some are probably in the thousands of dollars.

I'm still stunned that I paid $1299 for a product that does almost the same Ghash as a $30k product that shipped less than a month ago

A worst case scenario -

That's actually the most plausible con speculation. I'd be bizarrely impressed with that one.