As much as I like to see some discussion, you're spreading a lot of wrong information. I'm not sure if it's because of your past experiences with pre-orders.

So right now they are taking pre-orders for a miner that doesn't even have dedicated team behind it.

They've already hired a company called Custom Silicon Solutions and designing is underway. This company has a 20 year history and had already delivered bitcoin ASICs.

June 2018 is the current estimated delivery date. So if everything in the development and technical process goes PERFECTLY... you will get a miner in June of 2018.

The team has repeatedly stated on reddit and slack that June 2018 is a very, very conservative estimate. The internal expectation is Feb 2018. They've mentioned this in the FAQ of their pre-sale website (http://obelisk.tech) too.