Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPU

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was sold by Amazon itself rather than a third-party seller, which is often the case with these sorts of fake items.

  The fact that the packaging was sealed and the CPU was unused suggests that this was not one of those instances in which someone bought an item and replaced it with a fake before sending it back for a refund.

  co-mingled inventory strikes again.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s tech blogger was probably thinking “what the fuck, I need to return this piece of shit… wait. This would be a great video.”

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sure they were buying it for a video anyway.

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, the recipient mentioned this was for a review video. Now he’s getting a review video + this.

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just dont trust amazon for tech tbh. January I ordered a new 1tb NVME and it arrived opened; I’m not about to trust an opened drive when i paid full price for a new one.

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its 100% a huge issue with Amazon, at this point pretty sure everyone knows how all the different sellers get lumped in together so you order from seller A and recieve a product from seller B because Amazon considers them the same thing. Means you can’t even be sure wether the seller you thought you purchased from is the one that scammed you; and means even buying from a companies official amazon listing isn’t protection.

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Refund that defect.

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• beerclue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It happened to me a few years ago, when I ordered for work an i9 9900k, and inside the sealed box was a core 2 duo… After the seller (not Amazon) refused the return, I looked up a bit online, and it’s a common practice. I even found rolls of “Intel original” seals for 5€ on eBay.

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  • naonintendois@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In those cases I just do a charge back on my credit card.

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• Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve had them instantly send me a new 2tb nvme when the one arrived with no drive in the box. The chatbot didn’t even blink.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can we also say just how crappy the print job on the CPU was as well? Barely readable other than “Ryzen” and even Ryzen was pixellated as hell!

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