Don't forget the iBelink miners that are showing up in peoples hands today, and the shipment that will be going out in Oct.  Also the Innosilicon A5's that will ship in October, and now pre-order for Nov is about to open up with the A5.  Add that all to the hash that Bitmain will add in Sept, Oct, Nov...

And nobody knows the number of miners in each of these batches.  And there are very few coins that are X11 that are profitable to mine so most of that hash will be pointed at Dash.  So it is a perfect storm and going to be a nightmare.

i have ordered two from the october batch. my bitmain account says that the order has been paid but also expired is this normal? thx

for me its still:

Paid
Unshipped
Expired

we will see 

Yeah their system is clunky but a big part of this nonsense is due to BTC network congestion. And on top of the usual mess during this last batch there was a 40+ minute block. One of my payments took more than an hour to confirm even though I put the recommended "1 block" fees.

I do remember Bitmain being much faster with order validation in the past. Maybe they're not in a hurry since this is a 3-month preorder, it's not like this is holding up shipping.

If it says "Paying" make sure you have paid the correct amount. "Paying" typically means "we have received a partial payment and are waiting for more".

September has two batches.

LOL, put a miner under your tree for Christmas!

Let me tell you what my opinion is and for this lets take a look in the recent history no more than a year ago. So we have these S9's which at the time of arrival were making 10$/day, now with the rise of BTC-USD they still make 10$day.
When L3+ came out they were calculated at approx 35-40$day, rise of difficulty is present now and they still make the same ammount of money now as calculated in march.
So if the D3 is profitable now to a ridiculus levels i think that it still will be when we get our hands on them but 10$day is some dark dark stuff...

Also order was updated showing VALID now ... i can breath

Happy mining!

Guys do you think that split of two orders will be possible?
I have ordered one D3 and one PSU in two orders. Both are in October batch. I am thinking about spliting of these two orders to be shipped together in one package.