How Ebay Scammed me with a Hummer H1 Mars Handshake Miner and why it sucks

I bought a Hummer H1 Mars Miner and it was one of my biggest financial mistakes in cryptocurrency.

The Hummer H1 Handshake Miner was projected to make around 80–100$ per day. That peaked my interest, so I ordered one for 2200$ including shipping and import costs.

My miner was supposed to arrive with one of the first batches, but it started climbing up to a late June Batch, so I sold it on Ebay before even receiving it. Someone actually bought it for 2200$ so I changed the shipping adress and let the manufacturer ship it directly.

In July the buyer received the Miner and promptly opened up a ticket on Ebay stating that the Miner is not powering on. I told him that he has to send me a video and he can RMA the miner but he never sent a video. I told him that I won’t take it back since this was a private sale and according to laws in the country where I live I don’t have to take it back.

He escalated it to Ebay and they closed it with the result that I have to take back the miner, pay for shipping and pay back the money.

I paid for a Fedex label, that cost me 460€ from America to Austria. A week later the miner got stuck in customs for a week and then finally got delivered to my door.

You have to use a C19 Plug to power the miner and I didn’t have one at home so I went out the next day and bought a cable. I plugged it in and the miner started. The buyer lied to me and just wanted to try out the miner without actually buying it. He even filled out his Mining Pool Details.

So I typed in my Mining Details and let it run for like 2–3 hours. I live in a flat in Vienna that’s around 30m². After 3 hours of mining the Miner heated my flat to around 40° C. It’s extremely loud and it is projected to make around -4$ a day after electricity.

TL;DR: I got scammed by a buyer on Ebay, ebay itself and now am a proud owner of an expensive, loud, hot paperweight that costs 4$ daily.