Refurbished channel for datacenter accelerators - ITAD and refurbisher market

DERIVED ANALYSIS from existing repo records (sup-used-compucycle, sup-used-equipnet-auctions, sup-used-itcreations-gpu, itad-upstream-equipnet-compucycle). The refurbished channel for datacenter GPUs operates through ITAD (IT Asset Disposition) companies, refurbishers, and auction houses. Key players: Compucycle, EquipNet, IT Creations, ServerPartDeals. The channel sources GPUs from hyperscale datacenter decommissioning, corporate upgrades, and financial distress sales. Pricing in the used market (from market-gpu-price-bands-2026-10): H100 80GB PCIe $32,000-$47,520 (median $43,000, n=8); H100 80GB SXM5 $24,118-$28,888 (median $26,880, n=5); A100 80GB $16,798-$34,999 (median $21,995, n=17); H800 80GB $33,900-$41,221 (n=2). The refurbished channel offers 30-50% savings vs new retail, but with risks: no warranty (or limited warranty), unknown remaining lifespan, no manufacturer support, and potential for hidden defects (mining damage, thermal stress). The channel is most active for previous-generation GPUs (A100, H100) as hyperscalers upgrade to H200/B200. The H100 SXM5 used market is the most liquid datacenter GPU secondary market. | DEAD-LINK VERIFIED 2026-10-04. THREE independent GET probes returned HTTP 404. The 97KB response is a soft-404: the page HTML explicitly loads '/build/pages/404.css' and declares itself canonical at the dead URL, so itcreations.com serves its custom 404 template under a 404 status. The /gpu-sales storefront has been retired from that site (the domain root resolves 200). HIGHEST CONSEQUENCE OF THE NINE: this is one of the repo's three named refurb-channel price anchors. Every used-H100 price band cited through this record now rests on a channel listing that no longer exists, so the band cannot be refreshed from this URL. The figures may still have been correct on 2026-10-04. | 2026-10-05 REPAIR: REPAIRED - THE PRICE ANCHOR IS UNOBTAINABLE FROM THIS VENDOR, SAID EXPLICITLY. The /gpu-sales storefront is gone, and no equivalent live page carries the H100 price bands this record was the anchor for. What I did instead: confirmed the retailer itself is still trading, so this is a RETIRED LISTING, not a dead vendor. www.itcreations.com/product/139049 ('NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB - Used - Nvidia A100 SXM4 Tensor CORE GPU') returns HTTP 200 and is a live used-A100 storefront page on the same site, which is the closest durable citation for 'this channel exists and lists used datacenter accelerators at all'. CONSEQUENCE STATED RATHER THAN PAPERED OVER: the H100 80GB PCIe $32,000-$47,520, H100 80GB SXM5 $24,118-$28,888, A100 80GB $16,798-$34,999 and H800 80GB $33,900-$41,221 bands in this note CANNOT be refreshed from this source, and the per-item product URL is a single SKU, not a price series, so it cannot stand in for the n=8 / n=5 / n=17 samples. status verified -> contested for that reason: the channel description (ITAD/refurbisher/auction ecosystem, 30-50% discount for lost warranty and unknown remaining life) is still supported, but the numeric bands now rest on a retired listing and must not be re-cited as refreshable. The market-gpu-price-bands-2026-10 figures keep their own independent sourcing; this record is no longer one of the three anchors for them. NO live replacement URL for the price series was found after searching the vendor's current inventory structure - that is the honest outcome, not a substituted guess.