Obviously almost in all cases it's better to buy bitcoins directly than mining equipment. People buy miners because they can't do basic maths. Are you among them?
![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
Really? Basically you're saying that miners made a bad choice for investing in mining.
Your logic is beyond me. I've been mining for 2 months with rig C, kept all the coins it has generated. I've done the math and buying bitcoin back then (with the amount of money that I spend for the rig), would have earned me much less. While bitcoin is on the road for a tenfold increase, some coins have had much more than that.
*points at MEC, initial blocks of 500*
Can't do basic math, pf.