At this time, ROI is about 2-3 weeks. So what are you talking about?
So far there is no third batch anounced for January as far as i know.
I paid more than 0.3
BTC each. Just waiting for them was 3 months. Enlighten me how to go back in time and make 2-3 weeks ROI?
No idea what the exchange rate of BTC was when you was ordering them. Did you buy from a reseller?
That is the first fault much people are doing. NEVER, and i really mean NEVER, buy ASIC‘s from a reseller. If you missed a miner from manufacturer, dont buy it. Resellers often take three time higher prices if not even more. They dont have any risk... It is just unbelievable and stupid, what some people are paying for these miners to resellers. But as long as there are such stupid people, that pays 3 or 4 time higher prices then manufacturer price, the resellers will do that.
Considering the manufacturer price of batch two (1399 $) the ROI at the moment is about 2-3 weeks, like i said above. Together with the fact, that the miner is multialgo, there will be 2 more algos added and baikal is not flooding the market like Bitmain for example, this is the best miner out there at this time...
Probably a pretty good "rule of thumb", but let me share my experience... I purchased mine through a reseller. The markup was not even 2X when I got it. Still very good considering how much it is minting for me every day. It also looked (by comparison here) that I got my miner a little earlier than those who were waiting to get it directly from Baikal. Maybe that was just luck...
Yes. This is the best miner out there right now, barre none. Even my purchase from a reseller is paying off. I haven't calculated if getting in a week earlier than the majority of people was worth the markup I paid. I tend to think it was because for the first week I was mining I made almost twice what I'm bringing in now in terms of coin volume (which is still very good).
So yeah... 3rd party vendor is working out just fine for me. To each their own. Just do your math and see if it makes sense, then cross your fingers.