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HPE is very happy with off-lease server HW only being sold on ebay and appearing as sketchy as possible. The margins are really high on server HW - offering HW support on systems sold at 20% above the used market under their brand name would cannibalize their core business so it will never happen.

But in consumer space, margins are very low, and so there is money to be made reselling used HW at a premium, so they will try.