Totally agree. Only started mining ETH end of last year. Then the difficulty spiked up drastically. Now have to fork out money every month for the electricity. Will continue until all the GPUs die.
Why would you keep mining at a loss when you could just sell your GPUs and buy in at market price? When you're mining at a loss, you're essentially buying coins above market level and it makes better sense to just pull the plug and buy in whatever coin you're mining (ETH in this case) and just hold until you want to sell, and you won't be left with dead, useless cards on your hands.
Unfortunately, in my country I couldn't sell GPUs [may be 1 or 2]. I still dont hit the bottom with my GPUs, just about to if the situation becomes further chaotic. It is still profitable but not much. If I need to trade like you suggested then I should have myself some $3000 daily.
I see. If you're willing to sell your cards online shipped, it is possible to go to the
Computer Hardware section and make a listing for your cards (only accept buyers willing to make an escrowed transaction in this case). If you do things right, there's little risk and you can select what methods of payment you want in exchange for your cards, and you'll get good amounts of site traffic to your listing. Just a suggestion, I myself have sold lots of hardware through the forums and I've never gotten burned like if I had sold through eBay or any other online marketplace.
Noted, will look into it. Hope that situation never comes.