Just buy Bitcoin directly. I have s9 and it's almost a year and I still have not ROI yet my initial btc payment.
If this is true... you seriously need to get out of crypto... ASAP!
(reality check) I cannot fathom a situation this is true.
maybe he bought it of ebay... or maybe he paid for it right after a really big price surge... and he is considering the amount paid in crypto, not in fiat counterpart
yeah he is most likely a btc not fiat believer.
@ op check bitmain right now and every hour on the hour for all of today sometimes there are cancelations I have been able to order this way on occasion .
There is no timeline in the history since the s9 was introduced in the past 6 months that the miner has not paid for itself period.
With that said it is understood that the s9 was purchased directly from Bitmain. If he went to another source and over paid I still cannot imagine it not paying for itself in 1 year. It simply does not make sense. It does not matter if you look at it as fiat or BTC, The damn thing has made money or it is frigging broke and not hashing properly.
Phil' is on the money with his statement about restock. Bitmain (even when they are not in operational hours) resets dead orders and releases them to the public till the entire lot is sold and paid for.
Scrap'