There’s a bunch of listings like these and I was under the impression gpus went for more, been checking for about a week now and still seeing these, just now started to contact sellers but wanted to get a scoop from a community, I would just trust ebay to get my money back if it’s bad but I won’t be able to test the card for a while as I kinda want to get the card first and build the pc around it
I found a lot these with buy it now prices on 9800x3d lower than retail. My guess is shipping scam. They mail you a box with another cpu in it. It gets flagged for the correct weight and certified delivery. Then you start the back and forth with ebay after the scam they hope you either lose or give up and they keep the money.
My advice is find a buy it now or one of the make an offer ones that are close to the price things should be selling for and shop that way. There are no free lunches on a platform as big and active as ebay.
Do people really do that and get away with it? I’ve heard eBay usually sides with buyers and the scams are more likely from buyers on sellers. I’ve disputed a few times on eBay (for legit reasons, like 3 times) and always won the dispute as the buyer.
Ebay is pretty good with siding with the buyer but scammers will always try. They only need it to work once to be worth it
This doesn’t add much to what others have already said, but there’s a useful saying that applies extremely well to low online prices:“If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.”
The tricky ones are the ones that are between, say, 10% off and full price. Some are legit, others are scammers hoping you’ll pick their slightly cheaper option. And you still need to figure out why the legit one is cheaper. They rarely do it out of the good of their heart.
The listings are for auctions that all end in 6+ days, one even has 30. Wait until the deadline is closer, as in minutes before, and watch the price skyrocket. You can place a bid right now and the price will just jump up to your price. Highest bidder usually has a price higher than the listed price and will remain highest bidder unless you actually outbid their real bid. For example, if I set a bid for $200, all of those listings are below $100, I will win the auction as long as nobody bids over $200. If someone bids $150, they instantly get notified that they were outbid and the price jumps to $151. AFAIK there is no way to see the auto bid price. There are also bots that will come in at the last few seconds to try to get it at the cheapest price possible. Find auctions that are closer to ending to see what people are actually paying for products.
A bit too cheap but they can be real, e.g. some cards that worked in crypto-mining for years with customized firmware that allowed them to run faster and hotter. They are somewhat unpredictable and can be half dead or work as intended for many years.
Did I imagine a scam with hacked bios as well?
Where the card looks a bit physically similar and the bios is updated to report it as whatever dynamite card but it’s actually a pos and the performance is always rubbish.
