I've seen a couple ebay listings for extremely cheep Xioami S50's from seemingly legit sellers.
Such as https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Xiaomi-Mi-Roborock-S50-Robot-Vac… ($149.99)
Is this too good to be true?, it's almost cheap enough to take the gamble.
Anyone tried buying one at a similar price?
When it sounds too good to be true, it generally is… Otherwise, I'd buy five of these!
eBay or at least PayPal should cover any loss?
They might just want to get rid of old stock, this is possibly nothing but the listing says "This seller is currently away, and isn't processing orders at this time. You can add this item to your watch list to purchase later."
If something seems a bit suss, I always check the seller's past sale history. If they've just been seen selling cheap clothes, shoe laces, nick nacks, etc and suddenly they're selling $500 vacuum cleaners, it raises a few red flags for me
As far as I can see you can't search reviews, in which case that would be difficult or impossible to determine. It is reasonable to expect they'd sell 1000+ socks etc for every vacuum cleaner. Their feedback seems legit and they have been around since 2014.
At least online you can't buy while the seller is away, but at $20 that is way suss, but again eBay/paypal should cover that, bit of a hassle claiming but no money lost either way.
Now it's only $19.99 haha
Seller is away = more time to move funds before you realise they aren't going to ship anything
I bought one for $250. I was nervous. It was posted promptly and arrive in Australia. Then Australia post lost it. I was never going to get one that cheap again. I paid for another one at full price. Eventually Australia post tracked it down, they had returned it. Why Australia post. Why!!
Anyway I still love it and the new S6 has been released now. Not worth upgrading for me, but some good new features.
And the standard eBay price now is $699… ouch!
On further review, it seems common for Ebay sellers to get hacked and harvest user information. Likely fake…