All right, its not good for you. But can't you ask them to directly provide their service here, or via some website? Not everyone lives in America.

They should just use their own company name, and sell them as "s9 form factor boards" or such, with their own controller. So all they would sell is controllers and hash boards.

Honestly those franken S9s should not be called S9 at all, they have nothing from Bitmain (unless the chips themselves are the ones from the newer families, but do these each report temp? i know the inno ones did). I'm surprised they are not already selling a whole miner that way. There is market for "half a T17", for example.

The min power requirement of the latest units is getting ridiculous. The way things are going they might as well skip with the home stuff and go straight to industrial plugs...

Shells are plenty on ebay and alibaba, and if demand comes, someone would keep building them (especially in China).

Not like the S9 shell is any worth preserving... It just happens that there is a lot of them and could see some reuse.