Really? I hope you are not correct.
A person at BitmainWarranty, less than 2 weeks ago, offered to sell me 29, a few month old, S9 miners - I offered him a price over twice what you are saying Bitmain sells them for ...
He accepted the price, then reneged on it the next day saying he wanted more ...
If you are correct, then I would not suggest anyone ever go near BitmainWarranty ever again ...
They are insanely high on Ebay, maybe they thought they could get more? I dunno. I might have been looking at the wrong item. I just checked the site and it says:
Antminer S9-13.5TH/s
Shipping: March 1-10,2018
2320 USD ( 0.16888080 BTC; 0.94561364 BCH; 9.88517011 LTC; )
So yeah, $1000 over old prices. But still, it's half what they want for the Avalon on that site. Crypto is always higher than Minerwarez, so I will wait and see what they offer them for. I might just stay at my hash rate if they are (in my mind) too costly and 4000 is too costly for my tastes.
I am all about supporting Canaan but these prices have to come down some. 4k for a miner? Wonder what they are for the pallet purchase direct and how much of this is a markup by cryptouniverse.