Like I suspected, you could not figure out your own conundrum, so I'll bow to your request and get you out of that misery.
1. You should be less hesitant to purchase at the current higher price because it can go higher. But you have options right now, as you pointed out earlier, in the shape of the SP20, till they re-instate their price in sympathy with bitmain, then the proverbial crap will have hit the fan for you.
2. It's your call whether to purchase now at $370 or hedge your bets in anticipation of a price drop later today to $360. But be prepared to live with your call should you choose not to buy now and the price later today staggers to $371. Oh, I nearly forgot, you should feel as you please whatever call you make and refrain from blaming bitmain (or real life as you prefer to call it) for your decision.

Forgive the verbosity, just in response to your cry for help.

But they show the BTC price right along side the fiat price anyway.  If that was the reasoning, you would think they would do like spondoolies and just show the fiat price.  The S1 and S3 were always just pegged to a BTC price.

I guess I'll buy 3 more SP-20's or wait til the next BTC price spike and race in to place an order before they jack the price up.

I have to agree, have bought Bitmain in the past but this unfortunately shows their growth has taken them straight down the path of "Corporate Greed". What is sad is without all of our support they would have never been able to grow to the point they are. I am all about making a profit but don't balance your books by gouging the very people that brought you to success.

I see what you are saying but compare them to the rest of the industry and they don't seem so greedy.  Bitmain, Spondoolies, and ASICminer (who has a lot of work to do to regain trust after the prisma debacle) are about the only manufacturers left who haven't told the small time miner to fuck off.  No, they are certainly not perfect but I feel for them as well.  It's easy to turn a profit and make everyone happy when BTC is 750$ and they can move thousands of S1s all day, but when investment starts to dry up, ROI gets tougher and tougher for the miner AND the ASIC manufacturer.  They have at least shown a commitment to continue offering something for the little guy. 

Will they ROI?  Unless you have cheap or free electricity, most likely not.  I stopped counting on ROI from ASICs a long time ago anyway.  The way you make money on ASICs as a home miner is through well timed purchases and resale on the 2nd hand market.  We can have the same discussion on the economics of the situation a thousand times, but at the end of the day Bitmain is still a business and it makes zero sense for a business to sell a money printing machine for $500 when they can keep it and print $600 with it themselves.

I'm not trying to throw bitcoin away buying insanely overpriced mining gear, but I won't bitch and moan too much as I don't want my only option to be a cloud mining contract that can be switched off on a whim.

Like many others i was about to purchase more units this morning, but saw the price increase, about 60$ more per units, so Hell no, no more business from me, going to

to buy some SP 20s, instead, it`s the princible of things that matters.

Bitmain: Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

Nothing wrong with making money in your business, but when you start to get greedy is when you will find that your business fails to grow and fizzles out. Customers don't want to buy from a company that only cares about getting rich, they want to buy from a company that cares about it's customers.

This is not what Bitcoin needs.

For what it's worth, ZoomHash is still at $325 + shipping. They accept PayPal and Credit Cards. They claim 5 days shipping in the USA.

I'm not surprised at all at the rise in price.  I would have raised the price if I were in Bitmain's situation as well.  Most everyone is in the business of bitcoin to make a profit; not to make donations.  This goes for Bitmaintech as well.  The price of these rigs are pegged pretty much with the average miner meeting ROI in 5 months time on average.  It depends on your power costs.  That's why I said, "...on average."

Look at the price of the S1 when it first came out and what the price of bitcoin was at the time it came out.  You will notice then as well that the price was set pretty much for ROI at 5 months on average for most people.

Bitmain did lower the price at least 3 times since the introduction of the S5.  They had the customer in mind when they discounted it as the price of bitcoin dropped.  It is times like this when one needs to buy.  However, it looks like many here did not have the funds available to purchase at the time or may have been unsure about the price of bitcoin and weather to continue mining.  For whatever reason one did not buy, it is not Bitmaintech's fault for people not taking advantage of the price when it was lower.  We had our chance and those who missed it should not blame Bitmaintech or label them as greedy.

We are fortunate enough to have a manufacturer who will sell to the small timer.  We should actually be grateful!!!  They have the most power efficient model on the planet and it's still at an affordable price.  They have a right to raise or lower their price as they wish because they are in a position to do so.  They did not get into this business to make donations.  They got into this business to make as much profit as possible.  Hell, if I were Bitmaintech, I would have done the same thing more than likely.  

Those who want to hold grudges and create labels can do so.  Are those grudges and labels going to hurt bitmaintech?  Probably very little.  Miners will still continue to buy their S5 as long as no other manufacturer offers a rig with the same price per GH and same .51 J/GH power efficiency at the wall.  Those who make the decision to buy a less efficient rig for the same price will ultimately pay more over the long run because of paying more in power costs.  They will also be unable to increase their total hash rate because the less efficient rigs are sucking up more power to keep them from increasing their hash rate by adding more rigs.

This is the beauty of "competition."  I know I will buy bitmaintech units if their price and efficiency is better than the competition.  Otherwise, I'm only hurting myself; not bitmaintech.  So, those of you spouting off about no longer buying bitmaintech.  Be careful about what you say.  You just might eat your words later OR you just might pay more later and hurt yourself.  I would be grateful to have these units made available to me instead of biting the hand of the person that provides me with the most efficient rig on the planet at what is still a fair price.

I missed buying at the lower price because I'm waiting to save enough money for a bulk purchase of 52 units.  Will I have to wait a little longer now?  Sure, it appears I may have to wait a bit longer since the price of the bulk package has risen.  I will not be ready to purchase a bulk package until March/April anyway.  It may be that SPT has a rig out similar in efficiency and maybe also in price.  Only time will tell.

By the way, have you noticed the S4 is not up on the site anymore?  I believe an S6 is just around the corner with the same form factor as the S4.  So, this may very well be a blessing in disguise for those who want a very power efficient rig that will save them more costs in the long run and allow them to increase their total hash rate with what little power they may be limited to.

Be patient and let competition make it's course.  Bitmaintech has every right to raise or lower the price as they wish.  Be grateful you have a manufacturer to provide you with an outstanding rig and good customer service compared to most.

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Very pleased so far, Thanks philipma1957 for the link and your recommendation was an influence in my decision.