FWIW, I paid 114 BTC for a batch 1 unit, and 75 BTC for batch 2.
you paid $1,299 + 120 for batch one and $1500 for batch 2. You sold your coins for that value at the time of the sale.
Those were the terms. Applying bitcoin value retroactively doesn't apply.
Oh, but it does. The whole purpose of buying Avalon unit is to generate bitcoins. So, we should think and calculate ROI for this project in BTC, not USD terms. It does not matter if the manufacturer price is expressed in BTC or USD.
I invested 114btc back in October and if it arrives tomorrow, I can expect it to produce 4.42btc per day (post diff adjustment), consuming about 0.06btc of electricity per day. That gives me a 26 days to break even on my initial high-risk investment, after waiting for 6 months for the delivery. That is, 26 days if difficulty stays the same. But it won't stay the same, it will skyrocket down the road. Given the uncertainty of initial investment, I do not think that the rates of return for 1st batch Avalon pre-orders are unreasonable.
2nd batch Avalon dropped the price considerably in btc terms, and it was absolutely the BEST deal in terms of ROI. No wonder the demand was crazy.
With the 3rd batch, Avalon is still cheaper than the 1st batch customers paid, with much more certainty about the outcome.
Batch 2 had crazy demand for one
MAIN reason. The first two Batch 1 deliveries,
PROVED Avalon ASIC was legit. Only at that point, did the light-bulb come on collectively. The day of the Batch #2 pre-sale was a animal-house, like Black Friday with the $100 60-inch LCD TV at Walmart
