Thanks guys. I'll keep looking for good retail prices. I found one last week (R9 280, 3 Gb) at 232$ CAD.
Just to know, how late am I to the party ? 2 weeks ?
Quite many Months. Depending on how you see it anyways. Eth was profitable for a long time, with the price rise, it just went insanely profitable. So the people that held and mined since then are quite rich right now.
It just wasnt profitable quite enough to get a lot of attention because of how difficult large deployment is versus say, a bank of ASICs. The software was much worse than now at first too.