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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.
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.”
I'm sure they were buying it for a video anyway.
Yeah, the recipient mentioned this was for a review video. Now he’s getting a review video + this.
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.
In those cases I just do a charge back on my credit card.
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.
Refund that defect.
Oh i did, instantly. I was pissed at the time but i didnt even have the case for that build for another like, 4 days after that
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.
Oh come on, you could be lucky like a friend of mine who found lots and lots of Rocco Siffredi videos on a new hdd. (it was store bought though, to be honest)
Had to look up who that is, definitely don't think a drive full of mystery porn is "lucky"
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.
What even is the purpose of pulling this scam on a site like amazon. 99% of the time the customer is going to return the item since it definitely won't fit in the socket.
They may be trying to scam amazon itself
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!
