http://www.innosilicon.com/html/news/26.html$10k price with a MOQ of 100 units:\
People complain about bitmain controlling the markets, but its because other companies make their asics for big companies and don't offer to the everyday miner that the situation is what it is.
After the way Inno handled the D9 and seeing how they destroyed that network - there's absolutely NO way i'd be throwing 10k at this miner.
Within 90 days it'll make $20-30 per day, the Z9 mini will make $4-5. The cost of the A9 will go from $10,000 to $6500 to $3000 within a matter of 4-6 months. Equihash is being mined behind the scenes with these ASIC's just like Decred and Sia - the only difference is that Decred was openly ASIC friendly.
Let's take it a step further and be super optimistic about the state of the market.
Day 1-45 - Let's say by the time you receive your A9 it's making $100 per day for the first 45 days (which it wont.) You've now made back $4,500 not including your cost of operations. So, realistically - you've made about 4k.
Day 45-60 - Your A9 is running, but Inno and Bitmain are steadily pumping out other batches of your ASIC so your at $60 per day now. Not a bad profit - but you're now making $900 over this time frame and your cost of ownership really makes that about $750. At this point you're at a 52% ROI.
Day 60-90 - Your A9 is now one of 3 batches, across 3 companies (Inno, Bitmain, ASICminer) + GPU. It's had some ups and downs, but if you average it out you'll be around $20-30 per day. You've made another $750, but it's really $500 after cost of ownership.
Within 90 days you're at about 5.4k or 54% of your initial investment and it's only going down lower and lower.
Your cost of ownership remains a fixed cost. You don't know how long this thing will last before it dies. At this rate you'll be mining for at least 1.5 years to break even. If you ever break even.
This is the "real" experience of mining.