I was searching for low-cost 60- to 100-amp DPDT manual transfer switches on Ebay and came across 5 sellers in Puerto Rico selling the Eaton DT223URH-N for about $230-250 with free shipping to anywhere in the CONUS. This is a pretty good price for this switch. All the sellers have multiple units available, and some of them have a good number of positive feedbacks. But I'm still suspicious; could it be a popular scam somehow, that multiple sellers have latched onto?
Alternatively I'm guessing there may have been a source of a bunch of these units send to PR to help with setting up generators, and maybe several crates of them "fell off a truck" or ended up as surplus for some reason and were auctioned off cheap in pallet-size quantities.
Given that shipping such a large, heavy item from Puerto Rico to the mainland must cost at least $50, maybe $100 even, these sellers must have bought the switches pretty cheaply; or it's an outright scam.
Does anyone know any more about these switches and whether they're the "real deal"?
Alternatively I'm guessing there may have been a source of a bunch of these units send to PR to help with setting up generators, and maybe several crates of them "fell off a truck" or ended up as surplus for some reason and were auctioned off cheap in pallet-size quantities.
Given that shipping such a large, heavy item from Puerto Rico to the mainland must cost at least $50, maybe $100 even, these sellers must have bought the switches pretty cheaply; or it's an outright scam.
Does anyone know any more about these switches and whether they're the "real deal"?