if BFL ever delivers you'll be shit out of luck cause they'll pump out 200-300 units a day.
I lose a little more faith in humanity each time I hear someone still believing in these absurd tales.
Even if there's no more other competitors releasing any asic product to the market, the ROI of batch#3 would be around half a year from the time you pay for it.
Let's compare this with GPU mining. Let's say we buy a second hand 6990 for $350 USD (current market price).
Based on the calculation at
http://www.dustcoin.com with the current difficulty, the ROI of one 6990 is 2.5 months. Since the difficult is increasing, we may need 4 months to mine $350 USD from now.
But the ROI time is still less than or comparable to the batch#3 asic.
Plus, you can sell your 6990 for $200-300USD 4 months later in case BTC price drops or the difficulty is too high.
So the question is why people invest $6000 in batch#3 with high risk while even investing in GPU(not to say FPGA) mining is more/equal profitable with no risk?