I think Avalon B1 owners made a killing. Rest all struggling to recover back investment.
This. Even the people who made money from mining would have made more buying BTC directly and holding it. Only Avalon B1 has been profitable in terms of BTC in and BTC out.
B2 has barely ROI'd for many. Remember some ordered B2 for 54 BTC, and those rigs arrived with less than a quarter of the current diff...
So in that sense yes, the real answer is only first day or batch orders really made anything.
Its too bad BFL is inept, and Avalon let all the chips walk out the back door...
Thanks to their efforts to "maintain early investor ROI".
To all those people buying chips today that haven't even "taped out" yet, in two months they will be re-living the BFL/Avalon fun of the past year...