Alibaba and aliexpress are very good e-commerce site.
Maybe bitmain just host their server in alibaba data centre?
if bitmain sell through alibaba/aliexpress , i believe it will be smooth as they are comparable to amazon and ebay.
If I can suggest to Bitmain, maybe they should channel the order through amazon store , ... what do you think ?
Well its a conflict of interest, as alibaba is a reseller, but they're the wolves who decide what sheep buy cheap and sell high. ( note I'm a miner, an end user )
This is clearly a conflict of interest.
There is NO doubt in my mind that all incoming orders to alibaba that were not 'pre-covered' with an alibaba voucher were /dev/nulled to the old bit bucket in the sky, aka connection dropped for being an english order.
Now ALIBABA is the largest webstore on earth, given that they're handling all orders ( shop.bitmain.com ) and fullfillment/payment ( passport.bitmain.com ), I highly doubt that ALIBABA servers were INCAPABLE of handling a few thousand geeks trying to get new miners.
It's clear as shit here that this SALE was a fraud, my browser clearly said "We cannot deliver product to CHINA using english site", that was the first message I got when I got my cart through "2+2=?" at 10:05, I never got past that problem, as my order was to THAILAND. Clearly the alibaba site was setup to block and drop all 'english site' orders.
Next time I will order from the chinese version of bitmain.com and I will make sure to set myself up as an alibaba reseller in advance and get "VOUCHER" so my order can go through.
In the meantime the question begs to be asked, "HOW LONG WILL PEOPLE PUT UP WITH THIS BLATANT DISCRIMINATION AND BULLSHIT?
Please update us on this when the next batch releases. I'm sure many of us would like to know if this turns out to be the case. And I hope it works out for you! Bitmain a bunch of bastards.