Ive bought 2 ASIC miners in the past 2 months, both turned out to be scammers.
Wondering if there is a list of reliable vendors?
Have to reported these incidents in the "Scam Accusations" section yet? At least those users could be marked with a flag and a negative tag to prevent others from getting scammed. You are pretty old user of this forum and you ought to know about such things by now. However I know that the "Mining" groups are more active in their own sections and rarely venture out so I can see the problem.
There are a lot of legit sellers in the "Computer Hardware" section of the forum, but the rules of thumb are to use an escrow for mediating the trade and dealing with a user who has a good amount of previous trades done.
Also, do not use Telegram for carrying out trades, it is full of scammers impersonating well reputed users of this forum who are not on Telegram and these will lead to scams.