Direct from the Bitmain Facebook page:

Bitmain
Yesterday at 3:25am ·
Missed the morning sale of today's batch of the Antminer S9 #BitcoinCash #Bitcoin miner?
We have good news: there's another evening sale of the same batch (read: same ship-out date) coming, at 5PM today (3 January, GMT+8) here: https://[Suspicious link removed]/enGFpa
Order then while batch lasts!

That's how
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Yes but that "evening sale" lasted 3 minutes...
I am talking about the first batch that was released and not announced.