The 'sale' is actually a very fair price to medium-level and larger buyers.
You can use 1 coupon ($400) per 16-pack. That makes the final price (shipping included) $12,688 - or $397/TH. Thats cheaper than 16 units purchased individually with coupons, particularly considering that the price includes about $2000 discount on shipping costs you would otherwise pay. Thats about 1BTC/TH WITH PSUs DELIVERED.
in contrast, the SP20 deal works out to around $415/TH and does not include power supplies (another $40-70/TH) and do not rack-mount.
noone includes the custom fees in their price - every customer pays different fees depending on country and personal/business use.
IMO, would love to see a 4-pack/$3400 (shipping included) option for the smaller miners.
A much better deal is 15x SP20
Cyber Monday Special Price: SP20 Mini Farm Batch 1 $10,425.00 +free shipping.
$695 per miner.
You can easily underclock/undervolt SP20 to 0.55w/GH to extend the lifespan and you are still 1200GH/s miner.
You will not be able to do this with Antminer S4, S3 or even C1
SP20 be more expensive, but much longer lifetime for mining.
The most important. If you buy the SP20, then get a new miner, not "2 months tested" miner.Also you know they aren't going to build an SP20 mining farm, like bitmain already did with their S2's, to compete with their retails sales to us. How long till we see an S4 bitmain farm. Not a "testing farm" that is.