Core 4 Solutions Lists a $59.7 Million AI Cluster on eBay With 9,600 Nvidia A100s and $50 Overnight Shipping

The seller is Core 4 Solutions, which describes itself as “30 years of engineering circular IT” and sells used servers, storage and GPUs. Its About page says its founders started it because eBay kept changing the rules on them. Now it’s back on eBay with the biggest thing it could find.

Dexerto’s Zackerie Fairfax reported the listing on October 28: “Core 4 Solutions has listed a used 300-rack AI cluster on eBay for $59.7 million or best offer,” and “the cluster was decommissioned from a hyperscaler cloud environment.” The listing doesn’t name which cloud.

The parts list multiplies out fast. “Each rack contains four compute nodes,” Dexerto wrote, and “every node includes eight Nvidia A100 40GB SXM4 GPUs, two AMD EPYC Rome 64-core processors, 1TB of DDR4 memory.” Three hundred racks times four nodes times eight GPUs is 9,600 A100s. Tom’s Hardware adds that each rack also carries three management nodes with “two EPYC 64-core chips and 192GB of DDR4 memory,” which is how the CPU count reaches 4,200, or “268,800 cores.”

Then there’s the delivery. Per Tom’s, the cluster comes “complete with $50 overnight shipping, or free shipping if you’re willing to go with FedEx Ground.” Dexerto adds a $25 two-day option and free local pickup. eBay blocked an automated read of the listing itself, so these terms come from the two outlets that read it.

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That post, which Tom’s embedded, is where much of the attention started: “I love that someone has this in their cart…” Tom’s counted “11 people reportedly watching the eBay listing and one prospective buyer already letting it sit in their cart.”

Tom’s Zhiye Liu ran rough numbers on what’s inside: “about $24 million for the A100S, $3 million for the EPYC Rome chips, and about $1.1 million for the DDR4 memory,” roughly $28.1 million in all. For comparison, the outlet put current Nvidia rack systems, the GB300 NVL72 and VR200 NVL72, at “up to $6.5 million and $7.8 million per unit.”

The fine print matters more than the postage. According to Dexerto, “the seller does not accept returns” and the deal comes with “a 30-day warranty and export compliance requirements.” Nobody has reported what shape the GPUs are in after years in a hyperscaler’s rotation, or how far the price moves once someone makes an offer.

Behind the listing sits a pipeline. Hyperscalers are swapping out whole generations of AI hardware, and the old racks have to land somewhere: resellers, smaller clouds, universities, startups that can’t get new Nvidia allocation. Expect more listings like this, most of them broken into smaller lots, because 300 racks is a lot to fit through anyone’s front door. “Imagine FedEx casually dropping off 300 server racks at your front porch,” Tom’s wrote.