Amazon Is Allegedly Canceling GPU Orders And, In Rare Cases, Closing Accounts For Purchasing Compute Hardware; Tim Sweeney Also A Victim Of This Practice
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The online retailer giant Amazon apparently cancels orders with high-priced Nvidia hardware. A user is even said to have been blocked the Amazon account when he wanted to order four DGX Spark Mini PCs.
While he wanted to order four DGX Sparks as part of a personal project, Nicksaraev saw his orders cancelled by Amazon. Worse still, his account was closed. Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, explained that he had experienced a similar misadventure.
Buyers of graphics cards and machines dedicated to the AI are denouncing serial cancellations on the merchant site. One of them even claims to have lost his account after a check while Tim Sweeney, the boss of Epic Games, also reports blockages.
Amazon Is Allegedly Canceling GPU Orders And, In Rare Cases, Closing Accounts For Purchasing Compute Hardware; Tim Sweeney Also A Victim Of This Practice
Running denser AI models locally is becoming even more challenging because online retailers like Amazon are making things incredibly complicated for buyers. One customer says that after paying for four DGX Spark units, Amazon not only canceled the order, but ended up closing the user’s account. Epic’s Tim Sweeney also mentioned that his regular orders kept getting canceled after he placed an order for two NVIDIA GPUs. Customer says Amazon kept g…
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