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Creator says Amazon closed his account after he tried to buy seven Nvidia DGX Sparks
Amazon’s closure email cites a verification process and offers no reason.
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AI creator Nick Saraev says on X that Amazon closed his account after he tried to buy seven Nvidia DGX Spark AI mini-PCs. The closure email cites a verification process and gives no reason. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney chimed in that his regular orders would go through, then get canceled before arrival, after he tried to buy two GPUs.
Update: Amazon just closed my account.Buying even modest amounts of compute immediately puts you on a watchlist. Be careful!November 1, 2026
Saraev puts it plainly that “Amazon just closed my account” and that “Buying even modest amounts of compute immediately puts you on a watchlist.” He was “4 orders deep,” and Amazon will no longer allow him to buy DGX Sparks.
The shared screenshots indicate those orders were all canceled, with each stating, “Your order was canceled. You have not been charged for this order.” Although he does not give a unit count, the screenshots indicate he tried to buy seven DGX Sparks in total. All show the same listing, with 128GB of memory and 4TB of storage.
Amazon’s support account did respond to his earlier post, about three hours before his closure post, offering a review. The shared email shows that Amazon had “made the final decision” to close his account after review; no reason was given. However, it did mention “previous attempts to verify your account,” and he says he did go through the verification process, but seven DGX Sparks is a significant amount that might draw suspicion. Either way, Amazon’s Conditions of Use reserve the right to “refuse service, terminate accounts” or “cancel orders in its sole discretion.”
He’s not alone in running into trouble with the company. Sweeney says that “Amazon didn’t cancel my account but continued accepting all my regular orders and canceling them just prior to arrival dates, after I tried to buy two NVIDIA GPUs. Rather bizarre.” Nvidia GPUs are often used for local inference. Saraev replied that everyone would “appreciate a bit more transparency.”
Also, in September, Dracones89 on the Nvidia developer forum shared that one Amazon account was hit with “suspicious activity locks” while trying to buy a pair of Asus GX10s; the user ended up with two DGX Sparks from Micro Center instead. Another X user, @PurzBeats, wrote, “They canceled the order when I tried to buy my 5090, twice.” This is a different trajectory than the OpenClaw days of Mac minis, when buyers faced long delivery waits rather than canceled orders or closed accounts.
With local inference remaining of high interest to many, particularly AI influencers, the event is potentially disturbing, especially after recent comments about self-owned DRAM by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. While this time it was a guy who helps entrepreneurs and small businesses implement AI and claims 500K on YouTube and 700K on Instagram, the slope is slippery, although Saraev’s orders are hardly typical.