Does anyone have any experience purchasing GPUs from Alibaba? If so, is it recommended or something that I should stay away from and stick to computer stores.
I’ve noticed that the pricing of GPUs is cheaper via Alibaba but not everyone offers secure payment methods so you literally have to transfer money directly to their bank accounts and trust them to send you the GPUs. Sounds like a total scam to me as you’d have no chance getting your money back or getting the GPUs as the majority of sellers are located in China.
If the only way they can complete the deal is if you send them the funds via wire transfer, it is a scam! period, no if’s, no and’s, no but’s about it.
Thanks CitricAcid. That’s what I was thinking. I was hoping someone in the community had experience and could refer an Alibaba retailer they’ve successfully bought from.
I got into negotiation with a couple of Alibaba sellers and ultimately didn’t go ahead with the purchase. There were several things that didn’t sound or feel right about their communications - for example they replied to me from two different email addresses (e.g. one hotmail, one gmail). I also asked for photos of the items in packaging - and they provided some images which I reverse checked and found on Google for some other company.
Ultimately, it didn’t feel right and my gut feeling was to stay away… They may have been reputable, but if they aren’t, being in a different country you are pretty unlikely to ever see your money again.
@n0g1291 wow! I’m speechless. Thank you very much for sharing. You’ve definitely answered my question and confirmed my suspicions. Excellent community everyone.
Hey hopefully you can learn a lesson from this, you need to trust your instincts more and rely less on hoping other people will tell you to go ahead and do something or not - you were right all along, you sensed something was a bit wrong about it all and it does sound dodgy only being able to pay with bank transfer. Trust yourself!
The old saying applies “if it seems to good to be true then it probably is”
Wow I’m so glad this was brought to my attention because I have been talking to sellers on alibaba and just haven’t felt comfortable enough to make the purchase! I wonder where in the heck amazon and eBay sellers get these cards from wholesale so they can retail them…it certainly can’t be alibaba…anyone have any ideas?
I am starting an LLC and Looking to sell graphics cards as well as mine. I’m guessing I need to contact nvidia and AMD directly once I get my EIN locked in.
Hey John, thanks for the information. I’m just started out. I imagine if one could become an official distributer directly from NVIDIA or EVGA etc you can get better prices than on newegg. Newegg is retail. If I’m buying them for my company and especially retail selling them I should get a better deal than that I would assume. Correct me if I’m wrong please.
