Four Nvidia DGX Spark units, ordered October 31, were all canceled by Amazon. The buyer’s account was then closed outright.
Nick Saraev ordered four Nvidia DGX Spark units from Amazon on October 31. Saraev is an AI educator who buys hardware to run his own training workloads. According to a report published November 2 by Wccftech, Amazon canceled all four, put him through what he described as a vague identity verification process, and then closed his account outright. Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney says he’s been caught up in it too. He ordered two Nvidia GPUs on Amazon, and the retailer canceled the order shortly before it was due to arrive. His account stayed open.
Neither man has gotten an explanation. Amazon has not issued a public statement addressing either case specifically, and it’s worth being precise about what this actually is: retail purchases on Amazon.com, placed by individual buyers trying to get their hands on Nvidia silicon, not AWS cloud contracts or…
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