About miningcave. It seems they are not a scam, though OP praising it in a scam accusation kind of raises questions on what the purpose of this post was.
Common, if we follow this pattern nobody will want to suggest a reseller because they will be accused of shilling.
Miningcave has been around for years, they have their own topics and threads, and they are one of the few left in business still being legit, if you buy from five places and get scammed in four wouldn't you mention where you haven't get scammed?
And now that I've defended miningcave, does my post also raises questions?
They are not very likely, but from the thread I linked it can be seen that their prices are at least 20-30% higher than if someone are bought directly from the manufacturer. Everything, of course, comes at a price, and orders from China have slowed down considerably since the pandemic.
Good luck managing to buy something directly, the L7 is sold out at Bitmain at $12.8k, Miningcave still has that batch
at just 14,314, that 10%, it's the average around, I've seen even worse. Prices go up whenever there is a solid spike in revenue, with little gear on the market once the manufacturer is sold out you could pay even double for it. On top of that resellers always manage to get ahead of normal customers, even manufacturers favor this, is far better to deal with 10 customers than with 1000.
And this is how you end with dropshipping companies that afford to pay upfront for 100-200 pieces and then sell them with a nice bonus on top of it.
Now, OP, after congratulating you for not falling for the miningcave clone website that has made a few victims around, do you plan on changing your strategy and before purchasing something from some random website come here on the forum in the reputation section and ask if this and that one are legit or not?
