GAW Miners / OneMiner Fury Deal: Zenminer First Impression Review (not good)

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Disclaimer: Even though I’m a GAWminers affiliate and GAW wholesale reseller ? I can only recommend what’s great. I’m expressing personal opinions in this article. If something ROCKS? I will write that. If it Sucks (and needs serious improvement)? I will write that too.

Introduction: GAW Miners / OneMiner

One of GAW miners latest projects to allow the commoner to buy ASIC Mining equipment at wholesale rates? Is liason with http://www.oneminer.com

Fury Deal

A few weeks ago I purchased a 1.3MH/s Fury (OEM version of ZeusMiner Blizzard) with 1 year free zen hosting for $89.

Sounded like a good deal. But is it?

Zenminer First Impression Review

Just finished setting up my ZenPortal account.

Which BTW looks extremely pretty, easy to navigate, fully responsive design; beautiful! But …

If this is what I’ve been waiting for, for 2 long weeks? Then “OH O!”. Those rates cannot be right!

If I would purchase the Fury / ZeusMiner Blizzard myself: I would make 1.3 * 0.83 mBTC = 1.08mBTC according to PoolPicker.eu Don’t believe their API? Okay cool … visit CleverMining.com directly to see the rates confirmed!

Not good!

0.474mBTC vs. 1.08 mBTC … that’s not just a little difference, it’s more than half at 44% !!!

Even if I would have to pay for my own energy costs? I would make more profit!

But that’s maybe because ZenMiner.com according to their FAQ? Is still in Beta …

I’m praying for improvements!

Summary

Do you understand now why my own minershop (ASICminerShop.eu) is against hosted miners? They rip you off

Read my article here with alternatives.

Updates

Some troubleshooting updates.

2014-07-15

got a suggestion from the Altcoin communities I’m involved in to wait another day for the hashrate to stabilise. So let’s do that. To be continued!
6 hours later … not seeing an increase in profits. Opened a GAW miners support ticket. Let’s see what they can do about it.
And wrote a ‘testimonial’ here: https://hashtrader.com/t/zenminer-first-impression-review-not-so-good/2833
Got me response pretty fast!

We’re working on that now. We found a better way to provide you the estimated payouts, you should see an update by tomorrow.

Yay! Let’s confirm tomorrow. To be continued … part 2! (-;

2014-07-16

Looking good now:

But want to see those amounts in my BTC (and even better LTC payout) accounts too! But so-far? Am impressed with both ZenMiner and GAW miner aftersales staff, suppor, programmers … and their willingness to truly deliver.
Also got response back from GAW miners support (Forementioned was from ZenMiner):

Please let me assure you that this is because your miner was activated about 60% through the payout so you only got 40% of that payout. The next payout should yield better values