Guys, the basic ROI calculation used by these online calculators is very shortsighted way of looking at this. If you were buying machinery for a factory, you'd typically be spreading the cost over a number of years. Also you're forgetting the residual value. After 2 years I sold my A2 mini's for more than 50% of what I paid for them :-). So try your ROI using the cost minus a reasonable residual.
Then, forget about LTC as the way to generate income. If you look at poolpicker.eu you'll see that Nicehash and LTCRabbit have been paying out an average of 0.000075
BTC/MHS per day for the last 60 days (I track it), and Zpool has been paying out 0.00009
BTC/MHS over the same time. With BTC at $600, that's $12.60 and $15.12 per day respectively.
Now if you take the $2150 and use a conservative 1 yr residual of 50% (value if sold after 1 year) your ROI is (50% x 2150)/12.60 =
85 days, or (50% x 2150)/$15.12 =
71 days if you mine on Zpool.
As for the shipping, Inno said 'starts August with max delay of 1 month'. We're still in that 1 month delay period so they haven't defaulted yet, but I'm also very disappointed in the lack of communication from them.
I thought they quoted shipping end of Sept with max delay of 1 month so that would put them end of Oct before they are late. I am holding off judging them until more details about the A4 come out. Holding my breath waiting for this video. I do find it odd that we have to get second hand info from forum members who are communicating with Chloe. For all we know this is not even her real name.