Quote from: Collider on June 19, 2014, 05:33:44 PM

however, it should be hard to find a buyer for used immersion cooling miners.

I have read that a couple of times now. How would reselling a SP30 work in real life? When would that happen? How much would it cost to get it shipped from the DC to the new buyer? Or would you sell it 'with your hosting contract'? But who would buy it then?

I would really like to see a practical example would people have in mind when they speak about reselling? Say...

- Buy for August or September shipment for $xxxx
- Use for mining for x months
- Pay hosting bill for x months (plus setup fee if any)
- Find new buyer for $yyyy
- Pay DC + UPS to ship to new buyer for $zzz?

Does this even make real sense? With Spondoolies Tech possibly shipping tens of thousands of these, wouldn't there be thousands of people trying to do the same?

If you have a few dozen of these units at a DC, or god forbid a few hundreds, would your DC even be able to start a pack and pack shipping operation for you? It's a bit different than sending an occasional server to some client. I just watched Softlayer unpacking and plugging in servers over months here at our location (one of my former colleagues works for Softlayer), doing the same things inverse (packing them up) is probably a small headache if they didn't keep boxes around.

And if you are a large miner, wouldn't it be better to spend the $zzz to just let it run for another month or so?

An if you are a large miner looking to buy, wouldn't any money be better spent on new mining gear at that time (assuming we are talking about 20nm at that time or competing faster/newer hardware?)

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