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by w-ll 4801 days ago
I ordered the 60gh/s SC Single the night preorderes opened like a year ago. I think there are maybe ~7 orders before me. I hope I get it soon. I paid 220 btc@5.45 usd for it, let's see if its worth it.
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I ordered a Jalepeno almost immediately. I chose to pay by wire, and the email i received included "Your order position won't be penalized for any time it takes to send you this payment information. Please send me an email with a copy of the wire confirmation form. Once payment has been received, I'll respond with final confirmation of your order."

I still haven't paid and am going to now. I wonder if they will honor it or not.

"time it takes to send you this payment information. "

I don't see where it says you won't be penalized for the time it takes for you to make a payment. With that said - I'm curious, did people pay in advance of shipping?

oh no! i read that wrong everytime. In my said it said "it takes you to send this payment".

but yes, they have been taking pre-orders for like 9 months and people have been paying.

> 220 btc

Holy moly: $27K.

If he paid with Bitcoin, it was probably handled through BitPay, which might have in turn converted it to USD before paying it out to the company. I'm not sure the company could have foreseen the spike in BTC and held off the USD for that long.

I wonder who reaped the most out of this.