Last time I looked one could buy an S5 and at checkout you could choose to have it shipped to the HashNet mine for hosting. Today that option is gone and checkout cart only offers shipping to my home. If I go to HashNet it says I can buy an S5 for $390 instead of $340.  That S5 has to hash for a month to recoup that extra $50.  I doubt you'd ever turn a profit at $390 plus hosting fees.

Is there any way to time the purchase of their mining contracts?  The enigmatic PACMiC seems so confusing.  Expecially when the profit is in idiotic "satoshis" that are not even a unit of measure.