Currently, 350USD is more in BTC than what i paid last month for a S5 from Bitmain so i find it pretty worrisome to make this purchase. However if the BTC price become more sensical, i might be interested in picking up one or two, depending, sometime during next month.
Shipping to Canada should be much less prohibitive than when we considered the S3s.
understood BTC price is currently down since bitmain closed sales of his second hand batches, but at this point he has not hardware for sale and I expect there wont be anything listed for at least 1-2 months
That is quite likely. BTC went even further down, making almost any ASIC purchase an uncertain venture now. People locally even started to list their stuff on local private adds. When people start dumping their ASICs, hmm. It will be time to buy soon.
If you mine and hold BTC with those S5s, it might be possible to get their full value if the price go up afterward but thats a bit too speculative for me.
But for now i'm watching this thread for price