Genesis mining is awesome.

That said:

(1) to be honest, your best bet with Genesis, at the moment, is either the Lifetime SHA-256 (slow but steady) mining or the 2-year X11 contracts. Some have complained that Genesis is slow, but that’s because they’re legit. The legit operations (Genesis, Eobot, etc.) have slower payouts because they’re actually paying out at sustainable levels instead of promising you the moon and shutting down in a few months like HashOcean, BitMinister, and now Coince (site still up but no longer allowing withdrawals) all have.

(2) Any time you purchase hashpower on Genesis Mining, whether you are new to Genesis Mining or have purchased hashpower from them before, you can enter a code at time of purchase and get 3% off with a code AFTER their first purchase (beware, if you try to use a code generated from your own account it will not work!). If you need a 3% OFF code you can use K2PwX5 and get 3% off whenever you join or upgrade your hashpower.

(3) Genesis is currently not offering Pure Ether mining (as of 9/21/2016). If you want to mine Ethereum, Eobot is actually probably your better option for now. (This, too, could change). They actually offer 5-year cloud mining contracts where you can select to mine Ethereum.