did anyone buy one today?

if so did you pay with btc?

if you give me the tx id in a pm.  I am willing to trace and figure sale for the day.

I have done it on this thread  just too lazy to read back 50 pages of posts.

I am going back to my purchase of one to se if I can pick up the trail.  I purchased 1 in jan

It is for the same reason we mine ~ greed ~ plain and simple. What else would you expect from a company who is out to make a profit? Bitmain is the only game in town now so they will bend us over as much as they can.

Some days I feel like I'm the only one in the bitcoin economy not motivated by pure greed. It's too bad there aren't more people actually working to support and diversify the network and overall economy rather than focus on short-term profitability at the cost of basically everyone and everything else.

If paying by CC

Just the unit: US $445.03

To Canada: $505.57 US. Includes shipping. http://www.dhgate.com/product/bitmain-antminer-s5-1155gh-s-0-51j-g-batch/216320560.html

Same price for batch 5 & 6

Going by your anology, everyone in bitcoin mining is mad, as there is simply no better chance of ROI'ng at $320 (if you factor in the diff increase had bitmain's competitors taped out) than at $419, but I am happy to leave that in your mind. Simple fact is that you'd still face the same overheads at whichever price point you acquire the batch 5 or 6 S5.

PS. if the market is reasonably perfect and bitmain are right about their calculations to the effect of their competitor not taping out, then BTC should rise to ~$364 and above in the next few days ........ you can then get your S5 for BTC1.13

again i'm going to post this . . .

price of miner = usd 419 (as of 292 usd/btc @ BMT)
shipping = usd 50 (depending on location)
tax = usd 50 (depending on location)
psu = usd 50 (depending on user)
other additional costs such as upgraded/additional fans, lan cable, port switches, rental/hosting, racks/space, etc

so at bare minimum a s5 would cost usd 469 EXCLUDING tax & psu if applicable

@ current diff & price of btc @ usd 292.2/btc hashing @ advertised 1155ghs = 3.579/day * 12.8 days = usd 45.8 and so on with diff changes.
* btw, buyers WILL definitely mine @ a higher difficulty, note the shipping dates, soonest is a little over 2 weeks away & by the time it reaches buyer so lets say 3 weeks & i wont even bring up the june batch.

that is again EXCLUDING electricity costs & diff jump in the next 12.8 days or so.

if price & diff remains constant ( GL to that) it'll take at least 6 months to ROI ? in 6 months time i am very confident next gen miners will be available to the market & these overpriced s5's can be listed on the scrap metal list pretty soon.

if the buying stops the killing stops. i'd also advise miners to pull out from antpool to even out the overall network hashrate. needless to mention the p2pool that was not a real p2pool. less support = more pressure.

imo, BMT wants to clear it's stocks & taking an opportunity to make as much $ as possible within the shortest amount of time since SPT has stopped SP20 production & want to promote hashnest sales as much as possible or pressure buyers to buy the older stocks so that they can clear old stocks before next gen miners comes out ?

forget about what BMT is giving or doing anything for the community or making any profits or not, they (same goes to all manufacturer's, miners & traders) are all out to make $, $ talks & the BS can go walking !

just my very own opinion though. take it with a grain of salt or as an adivse. nothing against nobody. no one can stop buyers from buying or stopping BMT to raise their prices as every party has their own rights to do so but do it wisely.

That is a potent statement there! SPT have insinuated (even overtly stated) their main customers are not home miners, thus it would make sense that they did not put orders in for current generation chips, simply because their large customers would not be interested in that soon to be superceded tech. Surely, that makes bitmain saints in the eyes of the home miner, price rise or not. Question is, why would you begrudge a saint a dollar?

My first prototype was running to bizarre issues and required a complete redesign. Novak and I spent some time going over a bit different (more flexible) concept, which I finally found to breadboard an initial prototype today and I'll keep working on it tomorrow. We're way behind on R&D for just about everything these days. If I can get the regulator working how I like, it'll actually be a first step in a couple other projects you'd probably be interested in.

Very disappointed.  I bought two for ~$790 shipped and two months later I'm looking at significantly more for something received two months earlier.  My cost of power is painful, but the cost of two new S5s is more!  I'm seeing little reason to buy before availability of the S7(?), my S3s are holding the fort!  Thanks Bitmain, but appears you're joining the established supplier community and appear to despise your international customers!  Guess I just have to wait!