- A customer ordered an RTX 5070 Ti and was instead shipped pebbles in the box.
- These GPU scams have become a lot more prevalent since the memory crisis occurred.
- Previously, another customer was scammed by getting rocks instead of an RTX 5080.
The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is becoming one of the most difficult GPUs to get your hands on these days. The memory situation has led Nvidia to kill off some of its higher VRAM GPUs, and the RTX 5070 Ti is reportedly heavily impacted by that.
Amid all this, a customer ordered a Zotac RTX 5070 Ti from Amazon, and instead of unboxing a shiny new upgrade for their PC, they found a bunch of pebbles inside the box instead of the actual graphics card.
Why it matters: PC component scams, especially the ones that require DRAM, are becoming increasingly prevalent. It has gotten so out of hand that customers aren’t even safe when ordering from reliable sources.
The customer took to the PCMR subreddit to show that they got pebbles in the box instead of the ordered Zotac graphics card. However, the Redditor confirmed that Amazon did release a refund upon complaint.
But it’s sad to see how these scams are becoming more and more recurring. Just a few days ago, a customer revealed that they ordered an RTX 5080 from Best Buy, but what they got was rocks instead.
Worst of all, while Amazon did refund, Best Buy failed to acknowledge any solution, wasting the buyer’s $1200. So, what we can learn from this is to buy directly from the stores, at least till the memory crisis resolves.
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