If you have paid hundreds of dollars extra on a miner so you get it early, now your looking at brown away money... Scam or not that is not ok!
Same for me, but I remember at the time of D3 purchase there was option to buy either October batch for high price (about $3k) or at lowere price from Nov batch. Unfortunately I decided to buy more expensive batch hoping to earn more money. This was my fault, but I can't blame GW for this.
another thing is that high price for earlier batch was caused by Bitmain, not GW. It was Bitmain who asked very high price for the first batch, and then decreased it in next batches significantly.