eBay S9 pre-orders?

[FatnSlo]

I am very confused about the process of buying S9's from Bitmain. I have have read on this forum that to buy from Bitmain you have to follow their Twitter account and wait for them to tweet about a batch being released and then buy from there.

But then eBay is filled with sellers saying they have pre-orders that they have purchased from Bitmain for future batches that will ship at a certain date. How is this possible?

Can anyone explain?

[stelee68]

I am very confused about the process of buying S9's from Bitmain. I have have read on this forum that to buy from Bitmain you have to follow their Twitter account and wait for them to tweet about a batch being released and then buy from there.

But then eBay is filled with sellers saying they have pre-orders that they have purchased from Bitmain for future batches that will ship at a certain date. How is this possible?

Can anyone explain?

These sellers already pre-ordered last week or the weeks before.

Now they are selling without stock in-hand.

[FatnSlo]

So when Bitmain tweets that they will be releasing a new batch of S9's, are these for immediate sale or are these pre-orders for a later date?

[VRobb]

Orders for later date shipping.  Business as usual...