I believe that it was Xian01 who instead of buying a S7 bought BTC with fiat for the amount that the S7 cost when it first came out. I think he's probably pretty happy about his choice now but I could be wrong since the price had dropped a bit.
I think it was the other way around. He bought BTC at the yearly highs of around $475 on Coinbase instead of buying an S7. There is a photo of his transaction somewhere on this thread. So its shows how doing either can go either way.
I think you might be right. I didn't spend too much time trying to find that post and I couldn't recall BTC prices around that time. I guess we'd have to compare his BTC vs the amount of profit mined from the batch 1 S7 plus the potential resale value of the S7.