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    PSA: Check your Amazon orders

    On a few different Reddit tech subs many people have been reporting ordering video cards and specifically Ryzen CPUs and receiving used, older parts. These posters are saying the orders were for BNIB items.

    With all of this being said I may start recording unboxings because of this. Imagine spending $600-$700 on a 1080TI and receiving a 980TI instead.

    Edit: And just so there isn't any confusion, people that have posted these incidents are confirming they bought "Shipped & sold by Amazon".

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    Will definitely keep a look out on that. Been keeping many tabs on GPUs from here and a few other vendors.

    What were the results after they checked back in with Amazon?

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    I assume this is being reported to Amazon? They are normally pretty good about customer service.

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    And people look at me like I'm crazy for never ordering things online.

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    From what I've read Amazon has been good on the returns. Awhile back there was also a few people that bought 7700K's and received old chips with a sticker put over the etching reading 7700K.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NynJa View Post
    And people look at me like I'm crazy for never ordering things online.
    Yes, we do you fucking weirdo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NynJa View Post
    And people look at me like I'm crazy for never ordering things online.
    Quote Originally Posted by Zetanio View Post
    Yes, we do you fucking weirdo.
    This is the equivalent of that person everyone knows who refuses to use a seat belt when in a car because of that one time they heard about someone whose belt trapped them in a burning car while ignoring the tens of thousands of lives that seat belts have saved.

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    Amazon saved my life

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    Just read an article yesterday that Amazon customers in different countries (Germany and the US) ordered AMD Ryzen 7 processors and got fake-labeled celeron processors with garbage passive coolers inside the "original" packaging. So it seems several ppl had the idea of ordering a legit one, replacing the package content and returning them to Amazon so they ship then to the next customer...
    But apparently Amazon didn't cause any trouble, accepted the fake for return and delivered the right thing instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
    Just read an article yesterday that Amazon customers in different countries (Germany and the US) ordered AMD Ryzen 7 processors and got fake-labeled celeron processors with garbage passive coolers inside the "original" packaging. So it seems several ppl had the idea of ordering a legit one, replacing the package content and returning them to Amazon so they ship then to the next customer...
    But apparently Amazon didn't cause any trouble, accepted the fake for return and delivered the right thing instead.
    Had this happen with a game I bought way back when. Probably ps2 era. Bought it at walmart I think (was plastic wrapped and all), opened it up and there was no disc or a different disc idr. And I think I recall it not being the easiest to get my money back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anoat View Post
    This is the equivalent of that person everyone knows who refuses to use a seat belt when in a car because of that one time they heard about someone whose belt trapped them in a burning car while ignoring the tens of thousands of lives that seat belts have saved.
    Here is the same video card on newegg.com/.ca, amazon.com/.ca, and a local PC store

    https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIAAZU5Y38259 $850 USD becomes $1124.10, but theres probably more as I cant calculate shipping
    https://www.newegg.ca/Shopping/Shopp...82E16814126186 $1129.98
    https://www.amazon.com/ROG-STRIX-GTX.../dp/B06XXZBPHZ 880 USD becomes $1108.36
    https://www.amazon.ca/ROG-STRIX-GTX1...dp/B06XXZBPHZ/ $1088.47 and I get it in 8-15 days
    http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX66174 1099.99 (so 10 bucks more), but I can put it in my PC right away and start pwning nubcakes, and I dont have to worry about getting a 980 in the box either.

    Assessment of cost after conversion and what not from US sites were taken from https://www.crossbordershopping.ca/c...uty-calculator. Amazon also presumes no shipping costs if I had Prime (I dont, but my sister does and I can just order through her in this case), although some shippers offer free shipping regardless.

    I also learned that Newegg is hot garbage.


    Another item, a random 27 inch Asus monitor
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...L9LU89NR&psc=1 $462.99 becomes 583.14. Without Prime, the shipping on this is 120$
    https://www.amazon.ca/Acer-Widescree...ywords=XG270HU 572.08
    http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX61439 569.99 (is on sale right now from 599.99)

    Once again, the local store is the best bet, and I can get my product right away.

    Does that mean that all local shopping is best? No...there are some things that you can only get online, and there are some things that probably will have a better deal online. But I generally do my shopping for today, not two weeks away, and saving 10 bucks to get what I need 2 weeks later doesnt justify the means. Also, the fact there are quite a few stories coming out recently of these bait and switch items, it seems to be becoming less and less of an isolated incident.


    So your analogy is fucking stupid.

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    Dude Nynja, go get yourself a Shirley Temple and chill....

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    Because I called out someone for making an idiotic comment about me? Ok

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    This just proves living in Canadaland is terrible and turns you into Nynja.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NynJa View Post
    Because I called out someone for making an idiotic comment about me? Ok
    No because you overreacted like a fucking twat is why.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyrath View Post
    No because you overreacted like a fucking twat is why.
    Showing why ordering online isnt beneficial to me is being an "overreacting fucking twat"


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    Hell yes, posting in a Nynja thread

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    Quote Originally Posted by tyven View Post
    Hell yes, posting in a Nynja thread
    Stop being an overreacting fucking twat tyven!

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    lol Nynja.

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