Do you think they will ship without you paying first?
There are many other red flags in that listing, I wouldn't touch it even if paying by PayPal, especially after it's been bid up to $1575 last time I looked.
Location - London, I doubt any mining farm could be located there
Delivery - by mid-October (at least to the US, not sure of other locations)
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30%+ discount for no reason (there is no newer hardware to upgrade to)
That's just from memory, too lazy to open that link again.
I decided not to proceed with the deal for various reasons but just to clarify:
Miners were in Guangzhou, China not London. I'll be in China in 2 days so I'd pick them in person.
Miners were used and without warranty hence the discount.
If I have some time to spare while there I'll try to understand if 2 btc per used S9 is a common price or not.
The warranty can't be worth 20-30%. The S9 failure rate is high but not nearly THAT high.
In other words, yeah the price is good, of the "too good to be true" variety. But there is probably a catch of some sort.