You mean they're doing that shenanigan like on Aliexpress where you buy and add another complimentary item to the cart as a stand-in for shipping fees?
Enterprise SSD "small deals"
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It's a common tax evasion technique as shipping is included in the import duty value of the items. So by making it a separate item it's not on the invoice.
that's a scam. The photos with the yellow background come from the seller egoods.supply. There are tons of such listings recently, high capacity drives sold for nothing from zero rating sellers:
MZ-ILS15T0 Samsung PM1633a 15.36TB SAS 12Gbps 2.5in SSD EMC 118000556 - BIG SALE | eBay
The MZ-ILS15T0 Samsung PM1633a 15.36TB SAS 12Gbps 2.5in SSD is a high-performance internal SSD designed for use with PCs. With a storage capacity of 15.36TB, this drive combines both HDD and SSD storage formats to provide fast and efficient data access. The black color and compact 2.5 inch form...www.ebay.com
MZ-ILS15T0 Samsung PM1633a 15.36TB SAS 12Gbps 2.5in SSD EMC 118000556 - new $398 - zero feedback seller
I give you, the deal of a lifetime… 
Lot of 2 Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB OPAL, FIPS U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 Enterprise SSD price is set at 1772.99 USD. They’re even open to offers..
If my math is correct then that’ll be price of a whopping 7.2 USD/TB for PCIe gen 4 NVMe storage. Not bad…
I think the cheapest I’ve ever bought spinning rust for is around 5 USD/TB.
1 sold and 3 available at time of posting. Who dares to take a chance and hope to not receive a brick?!
Lot of 2 Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB OPAL, FIPS U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 Enterprise SSD price is set at 1772.99 USD. They’re even open to offers..
If my math is correct then that’ll be price of a whopping 7.2 USD/TB for PCIe gen 4 NVMe storage. Not bad…
I think the cheapest I’ve ever bought spinning rust for is around 5 USD/TB.
1 sold and 3 available at time of posting. Who dares to take a chance and hope to not receive a brick?!
You are 100% getting nothing - Out of Curiosity, I Bought a Camera on eBay Knowing It Was Likely a ScamI give you, the deal of a lifetime…
Lot of 2 Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB OPAL, FIPS U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 Enterprise SSD price is set at 1772.99 USD. They’re even open to offers..
If my math is correct then that’ll be price of a whopping 7.2 USD/TB for PCIe gen 4 NVMe storage. Not bad…
I think the cheapest I’ve ever bought spinning rust for is around 5 USD/TB.
1 sold and 3 available at time of posting. Who dares to take a chance and hope to not receive a brick?!
People use eBay as some kind of cash laundering / float system via these 0 review sellers. They list something super cheap, then attach an unrelated tracking number to the order - takes weeks to get your money back.
I don't understand how eBay's fraud insurance is okay with their total lack of any kind of system to detect and prevent this scam.
Guys, could you please stop posting "Worst deals" in the "Great deals" topic? I subscribed to this thread hoping to find a few SSDs to upgrade my server, not to get notifications about who can find more scam eBay listings.
LOL! This is 100% scam.I give you, the deal of a lifetime…
Lot of 2 Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB OPAL, FIPS U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 Enterprise SSD price is set at 1772.99 USD. They’re even open to offers..
If my math is correct then that’ll be price of a whopping 7.2 USD/TB for PCIe gen 4 NVMe storage. Not bad…
I think the cheapest I’ve ever bought spinning rust for is around 5 USD/TB.
1 sold and 3 available at time of posting. Who dares to take a chance and hope to not receive a brick?!
I give you, the deal of a lifetime…
Lot of 2 Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB OPAL, FIPS U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 Enterprise SSD price is set at 1772.99 USD. They’re even open to offers..
If my math is correct then that’ll be price of a whopping 7.2 USD/TB for PCIe gen 4 NVMe storage. Not bad…
I think the cheapest I’ve ever bought spinning rust for is around 5 USD/TB.
1 sold and 3 available at time of posting. Who dares to take a chance and hope to not receive a brick?!
Intel S3500 SSDSC2BB016T4 1.6TB 2.5" Solid State Drive SATA SSD
£66.66
Not the deal of the century but not bad IMHO
£66.66
Not the deal of the century but not bad IMHO
Intel S3500 SSDSC2BB016T4 1.6TB 2.5" Solid State Drive SATA SSD | eBay.de
Model SSDSC2BB016T4. Interface SATA. Rotation Speed. We include exactly what is shown in the photographs, nothing more and nothing less.
www.ebay.de
They are asking for $300+ in the USA for the same thing.Intel S3500 SSDSC2BB016T4 1.6TB 2.5" Solid State Drive SATA SSD
£66.66
Not the deal of the century but not bad IMHO
Intel S3500 SSDSC2BB016T4 1.6TB 2.5" Solid State Drive SATA SSD | eBay.de
Model SSDSC2BB016T4. Interface SATA. Rotation Speed. We include exactly what is shown in the photographs, nothing more and nothing less.www.ebay.de
It's a market, things will inevitably sell at whatever price the market will bear...eBay sellers are such thieves.
You really should be dumping on AI companies if anyone...
I dump on the AI companies every day. Even Supermicro sold us out, the lower end of the spectrum no longer exists, I had the eshop give me a $4000+ suggestion for a firewall, and that was before memory or storage was added, just a board, chassis, and the lowest processor in the series. All they really want to sell is now the giant AI servers that make them so much profit.
My "firewall"...is still running on a $20 motherboard (Gigabyte thin mini-ITX B75TN) with an ancient i5-3570s...and handles 10gb symmetric with more than enough room to spare. I don't do IDS etc on it, but do have a couple of other things including wireguard and OpenVPN enabled on it.
All in all, maybe $50 worth of hardware.
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They just suggested their lowest priced bare bones server, it would have been way overkill. I spec'ed it up for a storage server and came out with about 6TB after configuration, 64gb of ram, low core count processor, and almost $10,000. And it was still SATA SSD, not even nvme. I think it was $1000 additional for a dual 10g sfp+ card so I didn't need to buy copper modules for the other end.