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Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPU
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In those cases I just do a charge back on my credit card.
I immediately ordered a new one from another vendor, as I really needed to build a workstation, and let the purchasing department handle the case. All I know was that the seller did not believe/accept the "wrong cpu story". From their perspective, it was a sealed box...
We need to all start doing unbox9ng videos so we have proof if that happens to us.