Is trading online, by selling and buying computer devices through the described mechanism – which includes advance payment from the buyer, purchasing the item from a company in China and shipping it to the buyer, with the buyer's knowledge of the item's location and the seller's responsibility for supply and its costs, along with the seller's ability to possess sufficient funds to purchase and store the item without seeing it – permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram), especially if the offer is sometimes in the form of a public auction?
There is nothing in the mentioned points that contradicts a valid salam sale. The most important condition of a salam sale is the full receipt of the price—whether actually or constructively—at the contract session.
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