While probably harder to find a no-questions asked buyer, the price premium on GPUs is a lot higher than some consoles.
The scenario you outlined is not all that common. There are much more sophisticated scams. What I see the most often are disclosures of load information and pickup numbers to bad actors (e.g. via social engineering).
When you roll up to a facility with a truck, you need to provide information from the bill of lading, and the key piece of data is the pickup number, which is basically like a PIN for the shipment. If that gets into the wrong hands, then someone else can show up at that facility, pose as the carrier, and get loaded with the goods. It's quite low risk during the operation because there's no hijacking or anything else obviously criminal happening. People will literally load the thief's truck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Pearson_International_...
You can't really dust for maple syrup.
I'd go further than that. A no-questions-asked buyer for a console merely suspects there's shenanigans afoot, and will expect a considerable discount off the sticker price. A no-questions-asked buyer for server GPUs almost certainly knows for a fact there's shenanigans afoot, but is likely to pay a premium over the sticker price anyway.
The manufacturers of drugs are highly regulated.
The prescribers of drugs are highly regulated.
The disbursers of prescription drugs are highly regulated.
The shippers; not so much.
There's a good reason the mob likes logistics companies.
In one a Fedex driver and conspirators would repackage a large shipment of painkillers. They'd take a single bottle from the a few boxes on each pallet and seal them back up in such a way that was very hard to spot.
Another time they'd take like 10% of the pills out of a bunch of bottles.
Many times the driver would get lunch and the truck would be stolen. Like once a year.
https://www.nsf.org/knowledge-library/importance-nsf-certifi...
And buy direct from the manufacturer. If you order through a reseller like Amazon then there's always a risk of getting counterfeit products if someone tampered with the supply chain.
So you have tracking devices in the cab, the trailer, the pallets, and the boxes, and things STILL disappear.
Most logistics companies operate on shoestring IT budgets, and yet their software systems are juicy targets for organized crime, just like real estate companies.
Putting a bunch of technical compliance controls in place to stop the one-percent of bad actors is going to increase friction for everyone else.
Is it ? with all the news this week about dummy servers and other tricks to bypass export controls, it seems there would be many no questions asked buyers abroad.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
the post i replied to was asking about scale, and even if it was "definitely theft", 6 pallets is still a lose-able amount.