For example I purchased my first Antminer S1 through Sushi's group buy in early February for 1.45
BTCI set it up and overclocked it to 200 GH/s and started mining on February 12th.
Using
http://retrocalc.net/ I see I've roughly made 0.8 off that 1 Antminer S1(2.24 Total BTC mined).
I don't think making nearly $500 off of one miner(out of several I bought) is just barely making ROI, do you? Another factor is I luckily have free electricity, so helps a great deal.
Now I've sold most of my Ants, but I've held onto Antminer #1, as that little guy is proof that you can ROI in this difficult environment. He'll always have a place in my
BTC heart....
