eBay used bare A100 80GB PCIe cards (the mainstream ex-datacenter consumer path)

USED / Pre-Owned, bare A100 80GB **PCIe** card. $12,099.00 = the lowest listing whose own title states PCIe (NOT the $10,449.95 entry, whose title says 'SXM4 Module' -- see FORM-FACTOR NOTE below; an earlier revision of this record wrongly attributed that SXM4 listing to this PCIe record). Genuine PCIe 80GB cards ranged $12,099.00-$21,995.00 across the same page: HPE P46814-001 $16,999.00, Cisco UCSC-GPU-A100-80 $19,500.00, Dell 575TK $20,830.18, A100X 80GB converged $21,995.00. Two-card lots: $24,198.00 for 2x SXM4, $42,270.00 for 2x PCIe. Warranty: none from NVIDIA. All figures captured 2026-10-03 as ASKING prices, not sold PERISHABLE-FIGURE STAMP (added 2026-10-04, uniform across data/supply/ so it is greppable). PRICE CLASS: ASKING price - the rate at which a seller advertises the item for sale, NOT a sold, completed or realised transaction price. OBSERVED: 2026-10-03 RE-VERIFY BY: 2027-01-04 - the repo's quarterly re-verification bar. After that date this figure is presumed drifted and must be re-checked against its source before it is quoted again. A price without its observation date is noise; this stamp exists so a reader can tell a fresh figure from a stale one without reading prose. UNIT: USED / Pre-Owned, bare A100 80GB **PCIe** card READING RULE: No further perishable flag is published for this figure.

lead_time_weeks is null because no lead time applies: this is a secondary/auction market priced per listing. What a buyer faces is listing availability at the moment of purchase - the record's availability field is a snapshot of what a seller posted, not a schedulable delivery date - plus whatever shipping the listing states. An auction close date is not a lead time.

EAR 3A090.a / 3A090.b (advanced-computing ICs) + EAR 742.6(a)(6)(iii)(A) (D:5/Macau end-user and ultimate-parent) + EAR 744.23 (Entity List screening) + EAR 744.6 (Unverified/MEU lists)

LAYER 1, EXPORT LICENCE: under the Jan 2026 BIS rule 91 FR 1684 (effective 2026-01-15) the license review policy for advanced-computing commodities with TPP < 21,000 AND total DRAM bandwidth < 6,500 GB/s - the NVIDIA H200 and AMD MI325X are the rule's named examples - moved from PRESUMPTION OF DENIAL to CASE-BY-CASE REVIEW, but only for exports FROM THE UNITED STATES to end users located in China or Macau, and only against six exporter certifications filed via SNAP-R before shipment: (1) items below the thresholds with the count of units shipped in the US; (2) sufficient US supply, judged 'taking into account normal lead times'; (3) no diversion of global foundry capacity away from US end users; (4) aggregate China+Macau shipments <= 50% of total US end-use shipments of that product; (5) no end-user or use prohibition; (6) the consignee runs rigorous KYC. Every shipment must then pass a qualified third-party testing lab - US-headquartered, not controlled by a D:5/Macau entity, no ownership stake in any party, qualification revocable by BIS at any time - verifying TPP, total DRAM bandwidth, interconnect bandwidth and copackaged DRAM capacity. Reexports and in-country transfers of the same chips to China/Macau REMAIN PRESUMPTION OF DENIAL. LAYER 2, END-USER AND PARENT SCREENING: per BIS guidance of 2026-05-31 a licence is required where the consignee is HEADQUARTERED in Country Group D:5 (15 CFR part 740 supplement no. 1) or Macau OR whose ULTIMATE PARENT COMPANY is so headquartered - even when the consignee itself sits outside D:5/Macau. The requirement sits at EAR 742.6(a)(6)(iii)(A) for destinations outside the US, with an exception available only under the license exception at 740.2(a)(9)(ii). The destination country alone therefore never answers the question; screen the parent. LAYER 3, REMAINING LIMITS: exports to D:5/Macau-headquartered OR -parented entities stay PRESUMPTION OF DENIAL wherever the buyer sits, and the AI Diffusion Rule that would have set a country-tier structure on who could lawfully buy what was RESCINDED on 2025-05-13 and is not being enforced, so any recorded status rests on the instruments named here rather than on tiering.

FORM-FACTOR CORRECTION (2026-10-03, parent agent): this record previously carried price_usd 10449.95 with accelerator_ids nvidia-a100-80gb-pcie. That figure came from a listing whose own title reads 'A100 80GB SXM4 Module' -- an SXM module, not a PCIe card. The same $10,449.95 listing is correctly recorded as SXM in `ebay-used-accelerator-market`. SXM modules are unusable without an HGX carrier, so quoting them as the price of a PCIe card understated the real entry point by ~14%. price_usd now uses the lowest self-identified PCIe listing ($12,099) and status is `contested` because the band is thin. Separately, the median of a wider n=17 A100 80GB asking band (which mixes SXM4 modules and SXM4-to-PCIe conversions) is $21,995 -- see `used-a100-80gb-pcie-market`, whose band deliberately does not separate the two form factors. Do not average the two records. This is the channel most buyers actually mean by 'a used A100', and the price structure across it is highly informative. (1) The whole used A100 80GB market on eBay is THIN: only 27 used items, of which just one is 'Certified refurbished' and one 'Very Good - Refurbished'. There is essentially no manufacturer-certified refurb channel for A100 at scale - it is all one-off private-party pulls. (2) OEM-branded pulls carry a visible premium over generic ones: HPE P46814-001 at $16,999 and Cisco UCSC-GPU-A100-80 at $19,500 versus generic NVIDIA-branded at $12,099-$12,500, a roughly 35-60% premium that buys OEM firmware/support history rather than better silicon. (3) EXPLICIT DEFECT PRICING, the most useful single datapoint in this slice: an A100 80GB PCIe at $12,500.00 has 'ECC Error' in its own title. A known-fault 80GB A100 costs about the same as a clean bare SXM4 module, i.e. roughly 40% less than the $21,139 clean PCIe ask. That gap is the market price of burn-in risk. (4) RISK - retrofit adapters are a trap: an 'H100 SXM5 to PCIe adapter 80gb 96gb' is listed at $899.00 (open box, ships from China) and an 'A100 40GB SXM2-to-PCIe Test-Version Card with RTX 4090 Cooling Kit' at $6,160.00. These SXM-to-PCIe conversions are uncooled or oddly-cooled engineering artefacts, not production parts, and the thermal and firmware story is not something a buyer can verify before the HBM hits its limit. (5) Export regime: SXM listings carry explicit 'US only / Requires Compliance Approval' terms. EXPORT CONTROL (2026-10-04, mechanism-level; sources spl-eccn-3a090-ccl, spl-bis-2026-01-advanced-computing-case-by-case, spl-bis-2026-05-d5-guidance): these parts classify under ECCN 3A090.a/.b, whose thresholds are 'total processing performance' (TPP) >= 4800, or TPP >= 1600 with performance density >= 5.92 (the .b band is TPP 2400-4800 with performance density 1.6-5.92, or TPP >= 1600 with performance density 3.2-5.92). The mechanism has THREE layers and all three must be cleared, not just one: (a) LICENSE FOR EXPORT FROM THE US - controlled by the January 2026 rule (91 FR 1684, effective 2026-01-15), which moved TPP < 21,000 AND total DRAM bandwidth < 6,500 GB/s parts from presumption of denial to CASE-BY-CASE REVIEW, but only for exports from the US to end users in China/Macau, and only against six exporter certifications - US supply sufficiency judged 'taking into account normal lead times', no diversion of foundry capacity away from US end users, aggregate China+Macau shipments capped at 50% of US end-use shipments, no end-user prohibition, consignee KYC procedures, and prior verification by a qualified third-party US testing lab of TPP, total DRAM bandwidth, interconnect bandwidth and copackaged DRAM capacity; (b) END-USER AND PARENT-COMPANY SCREENING under 742.6(a)(6)(iii)(A) - per BIS guidance of 2026-05-31 a licence is required where the consignee is HEADQUARTERED in Country Group D:5 or Macau OR ITS ULTIMATE PARENT is so headquartered, EVEN IF the consignee itself is outside D:5/Macau, which means the destination country alone never answers the question; (c) THE LIMITS THAT REMAIN - reexports and in-country transfers of the same chips to China/Macau remain PRESUMPTION OF DENIAL, and exports to D:5/Macau-headquartered or -parented entities remain presumption of denial wherever the buyer sits. The Jan-2025 AI Diffusion Rule was rescinded and not enforced from 2025-05-13, but that rescission did not remove (a) or (b). LEAD TIME: null, and deliberately so. A secondary-market LISTING has no lead time - the part either exists on the marketplace on the observation date or it does not, and the seller's dispatch time is not published and not a commitment. This is the opposite failure mode from a distributor: a backordered new part at least carries a distribution window (CDW prints '4-6+ Weeks' on some SKUs, source spl-cdw-published-lead-times-gpu-2026-10), whereas a used listing with no buyer carries nothing at all. The correct consequence for a reader is that used and auction supply cannot be scheduled around and therefore cannot carry a build plan - they are opportunistic capacity, which is the strongest argument in this slice for the renting-over-buying decision. Probe log in source spl-negative-no-oem-publishes-lead-time.