why would the malaysia ones be more expensive? and 200 more than the china sourced ones? I guess what I am asking is what did you pay for them? the advertised 1750? what warrants such a huge markup? At bitmains price and free electricity - if difficulty and price hold, these would be over 12 months roi and that is with FREE electricity. and that is before shipping and tariffs - which would push it out another few months. And we all know diff will go up, it always does. so maybe now 2 years to make roi? which wont happen because in 10-12 months BM will release new miners making it even more impossible for these to make ROI.
I guess my point is that even BM price makes it hard to ROI with free electricity - add in the tariffs and markups and its a pipe dream.
and this is by no means directed at you per se - all the resellers are doing the same thing --- buying all the stock before the actual miners can -- and then reselling it for huge markups.
would seem like it would be better if there were no resellers and miners could actually buy from manufacturer - but i also know that some places cannot buy direct so need resellers and are thus forced to pay the increased prices.
and this is the reason I only ever buy from resellers for new gear. I cannot justify the lack of roi or huge premiums to buy from resellers.
We've seen this movie before. These "resellers" inevitably always get crushed. Bitmain entices them with back door volume discounts. Then makes them, pay up front. Then while these idiots are holding the bag, Bitmain shoves it up their ass by continuing to release "sold out" gear intermittently. Pretty soon the profit metrics become untenable, like now, and the whole house of cards crumbles. These assclowns get caught with a bunch of gear they paid $1700.00 a unit for and can't sell for even $1,000.00. Be patient. It's coming very soon. I guess my point is that even BM price makes it hard to ROI with free electricity - add in the tariffs and markups and its a pipe dream.
and this is by no means directed at you per se - all the resellers are doing the same thing --- buying all the stock before the actual miners can -- and then reselling it for huge markups.
would seem like it would be better if there were no resellers and miners could actually buy from manufacturer - but i also know that some places cannot buy direct so need resellers and are thus forced to pay the increased prices.
and this is the reason I only ever buy from resellers for new gear. I cannot justify the lack of roi or huge premiums to buy from resellers.
