A new case of fraud has caused a stir in the Reddit gaming community, after a player, who had ordered one of the most powerful graphics cards in the world through Amazon, became the victim of a clever scam. Instead of receiving his long-awaited Nvidia RTX 4090, he only received its heatsink, which is a part whose value is much lower.
The story was shared by a friend of the gamer, who said he had purchased the RTX 4090 for £1,600 (around $2,000 USD) from the well-known online sales portal Amazon. However, when he opened the package and prepared to install the graphics card in his PC, he got an unpleasant surprise: instead of the expected card with the high-performance chips, he only found a bulky heatsink and the card was gone.
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Several users who responded to the post believe that there could be a deliberate strategy behind these cases. It is possible that another buyer purchased an RTX 4090, replaced the original heatsink with a higher quality one, and then returned the card to Amazon. Apparently, the deception went unnoticed during the inspection in the warehouse and the card was resold as “refurbished.”
Among the comments, one of the players states: “Sold and shipped by Amazon? Then someone scammed Amazon beforehand and didn’t review the return properly.” While others with the usual jokes say: “Looks like a water cooling enthusiast got a free GPU lol” and another user comments with some solidarity: “Ugh, that sucks, people who do this should be ashamed of themselves.”
An incident that puts the spotlight on quality controls on large e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, where it is apparently too easy to return counterfeit or incomplete products, harming other consumers. The lesson is that consumers should always take precautions such as carefully checking the seller’s profile and the opinions of other customers.
PC gamer “mistakenly” buys an AMD 7900 XTX while drunk, but keeps it and ends up giving away his old NVIDIA RTX 3070 to a friend
Drinking too much can lead people to do inappropriate but funny things, many of which end up making the protagonists laugh, remembering what they did while drunk. But it can also collaterally affect other people, this time in a good way, since a gamer ended up with a better graphics card than she had, after her friend made a mistake by drinking too much.
In a Reddit post, the user published a photo of her “new” GPU, which was actually owned by a friend who, in the midst of a drunken binge, ended up buying a better quality one. In this post, the gamer nicknamed amnesia_alice who benefited from her friend’s action says: “A friend gifted me his RTX 3070 after I accidentally bought a 7900 XTX while drunk,” adding that the change ended up being “a nice upgrade from my RTX 2060, if you ask me.”
