Anyone who has had X3 running for a month has easily made atleast half of the cost back, with 20$ per day its 50 days the get the other half. Its not bad at all.
that's for batch 3 or 4? or batch 1? Looking at the OP the initial price was $12k

Did Bitmain refund those buyers?
See page 9, refund of 9000$ or 3 extra miners.
No- one in the world has paid 12000$ for a single X3, despite haters still seem to tell that every day.