January 31, 20251 yr A public service message, just in case Earlier, in another thread, I mentioned that the only place that seemed to have the new 50-series graphics cards was Ebay. Later in the day, a vague memory resurfaced from the days of the 40-series debacle, and I did some quick searching. Did not take me long at all to find multiple examples of what I was looking for: Suspicious things about the offer below: Price too low. Scalpers are asking up to 7K for these cards Seller explicitly does not accept returns. Unobtrusive admonition to read the card description The card description: Read the disclaimer!! CAVEAT EMPTOR!! We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
January 31, 20251 yr $2000 for a picture. I no judge of modern art, not sure it's worth that much. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 31, 20251 yr Well, it should be pretty easy to report this scammer to EBAY. He will try to weasel his way out of any wrongdoing by claiming that he stated in the description that the buyer will not receive the product but a picture of it. It is still fraud IMO. Dave Edited January 31, 20251 yr by dave2013 Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
January 31, 20251 yr Another one says this: Nvidia FE 5090 RTX! Ready For Shipment!! Please Read! al.330qa (581) 100% positive US $1,759.99 or Best Offer You will receive the exact picture of the item you see! If you're a human buyer, please do not buy! ABSOLUTELY FINAL SALE AND NO REFUNDS. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 31, 20251 yr Author Yup, there are a few of them. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
January 31, 20251 yr 2 hours ago, Fielder said: $2000 for a picture. I no judge of modern art, not sure it's worth that much. If it’s art, it’s literally a steal; Art of the Deal-wise 🤣
January 31, 20251 yr Moderator Well, all I can say is that at that price the picture better darn well be in full colour! 🤑 People who choose to pay via PayPal Credit will only loose at most $149 (1st monthly payment) ... Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
January 31, 20251 yr People who fall for this may have no recourse. The seller specifically states that the buyer will not receive a video card, but a picture of a video card. I think that disclaimer would stand up in a court of law, the purchaser has a duty to read and understand disclaimers. My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
January 31, 20251 yr People are putting these up not to defraud anyone but to take on the scalpers who use bots to hoover up supplies of these cards and then re-sell at a vast profit. The bot will scan the product header and the price and if it falls into the 'buy' parameter it will purchase the item. The bot can do this quicker than a human. What the bot can't do is take in the description. That is why the 'seller' has put READ THE DESCRIPTION in big, obvious letters. Good luck to 'em....
January 31, 20251 yr TBH, i will not buy anything from ebay at that price range. When I was in high school, i am talking about more than 20 years ago, I paid for a video card for about a few hundreds USD and I never got the card i paid for. Back then I don't know what to do for a resolution....so unless the seller has a lot of ratings....even still I wouldn't bother with it nowadays... I will just wait until the retail stores and order it online. Besides, I don't like being ripped off by scalpers!
January 31, 20251 yr 27 minutes ago, avistudent said: TBH, i will not buy anything from ebay at that price range. When I was in high school, i am talking about more than 20 years ago, I paid for a video card for about a few hundreds USD and I never got the card i paid for. Back then I don't know what to do for a resolution....so unless the seller has a lot of ratings....even still I wouldn't bother with it nowadays... I will just wait until the retail stores and order it online. Besides, I don't like being ripped off by scalpers! For me any PC part costing three hundred and up being sold by an individual and not from a normal retailer = In person transaction and in some cases testing for verification involved. AMD Ryzen 9800X3D/ Asus ROG Strix B650E F Gaming WiFi / Asrock Taichi 9070XT / 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5 6000 / 2x ADATA XPG 8200 Pro NVME / Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 / Seasonic Vertex 1000w PSU / Lian Li LanCool II Mesh Performance / Asus VG34VQL3A / Topping E70 Velvet DAC & L70 Amp /Sennheiser HD660s2 Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke + TCA Sidestick + TFRP Rudders
January 31, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, DD_Arthur said: People are putting these up not to defraud anyone but to take on the scalpers who use bots to hoover up supplies of these cards and then re-sell at a vast profit. The bot will scan the product header and the price and if it falls into the 'buy' parameter it will purchase the item. The bot can do this quicker than a human. What the bot can't do is take in the description. That is why the 'seller' has put READ THE DESCRIPTION in big, obvious letters. Good luck to 'em.... That's interesting to know. I thought it was to cheat people. Apparently not, then. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 31, 20251 yr Author 45 minutes ago, Fielder said: That's interesting to know. I thought it was to cheat people. Apparently not, then. And if you are an eager human who is speed buying one of these before somebody else gets it, what happens.......? We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
January 31, 20251 yr Yeah, good point ! 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
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