Am I being scammed?

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0xHashMember
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#1Aug 24, 2020, 08:49 AM
Hey everyone, I bought a Bitmain miner from a US seller who's got good ratings on asicminervalue.com and positive reviews on other sites over the years. I placed my order and paid for a January batch in the middle to late January, but it seems like they’re still delayed because of the Chinese New Year or whatever? This is my first time buying a new one, so I really don't know what to expect here. Normally, when you order online, you get a tracking number pretty quickly and the shipment happens soon after.
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coin_sigmaLegendary
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#2Aug 24, 2020, 12:49 PM
Tell me why you haven't considered purchasing a unit directly from Bitmain? Did you just randomly choose some vendor from asicminervalue? Please share the site where you ordered this unit. Let me check if the site is legit or not. I just checked some sellers from asicminervalue in US-based by hovering the mouse to Trusted vendor with check icon some of US-based their product still came from china. I ordered some products before Chinese New Year, but some of them have not arrived yet, and I ask why my order stuck. The only reason they can give is shipping delays due to Chinese New Year. So maybe we have a similar case where the product is still in sorting center and Chinese people might be in vacation in 1 or 2 weeks?
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Humbl3M4xiFull Member
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#3Aug 24, 2020, 05:02 PM
which vendor did you purchase from? the Chinese new year, undoubtedly, did hold things up but that shouldn't be an issue at this point - I'd imagine they're all back to work and as such orders should be dispatched regularly.
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darkguruHero Member
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#4Aug 24, 2020, 07:54 PM
@OP You may want to see my post about many miners recently being seized by CBP https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5531185.0 I did some digging found the actual reasons, ref https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5531185.msg65076388#msg65076388 As usual mainstream media got it wrong...  I suspect that your miner be part of a shipment of the ones seized...
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hodler2019Legendary
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#5Aug 25, 2020, 12:23 AM
@ the op if you are in the USA. just buy from altairtech.io https://altairtech.io/ and yeah due to the new president and his willingness to tariff china you may have been fucked bigly. if you do buy from altairtech.io make sure to check where the miner he has is located as he has some already here in the USA. he has this one in stock in the USA: https://altairtech.io/product/bitmain-antminer-s21-xp/ it is a fucking beast of a miner.
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