Yes. Boss asked us to get SAN / NAS gear on the cheap + other misc networking gear, all for test / dev env's to trial a new product / approach. We found some

Yes. Boss asked us to get SAN / NAS gear on the cheap + other misc networking gear, all for test / dev env's to trial a new product / approach. We found some on eBay and leadership was cool with it. Forget the exact amount but final costs were in excess of something like $9k USD. No issues with the sellers or shipping AFAIK. Mostly successful, but one of the big 4U disk arrays had some backplane issues and was a wash; the rest worked fine. The 4U was one of the more expensive pieces, though, and shipping was non-trivial. Not really a great choice but wasn't enough of a disaster to dissuade folks from considering it. Never personally ordered anything more than $200 off it eBay directly. There is a reason you reach out to VARs, real estate agents, etc. when things start looking expensive.