Bad experience with RTX2080ti eBay

johnyt said:
Bought a new Asus Strix 2080ti from a seller called ForgottengamesHQ on ebay and look what turned up!

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A crappy xbox game padded out with a bunch of Wii manuals
Looking at other sold items looks like a few more people have this coming!
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Don't forget to post this picture of your Wii 2080ti in the Turing RTX 2080 Ti Owners Thread to get on Kaapstad Roll of honour list

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/the-turing-rtx-2080-ti-owners-thread.18828886/
To get on the Roll of Honour all you have to do is post a pic with your user name on it of your RTX 2080 Ti.
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:D
 
cainer said:
its highly likely ebay/paypal wont have released the funds to him untill he receives positive feedback for the sale
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That's not how PayPal or eBay works.

He will have put all the funds into a bank account then withdrawn all the cash then told the bank to close the account or unlinked it from PayPal.

Kelt said:
This TBH.

OP, hope you get your money back.
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He will if paid through PayPal. However scammer also gets the money. It's PayPal that will lose on this occasion

IronWarrior said:
Is this a troll?

Would you really pay £1000+ for a GPU from eBay? That offers no protection? No after customer service? No Warranty protection?

I mean, if you willing to pay £1000+ already, how much are you really saving in the end?
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Natural selection if still in play would have taken car of this problem. Unfortunately the Western world is very forgiving for those with more money than sense
 
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Psycho Sonny said:
That's not how PayPal or eBay works.

He will have put all the funds into a bank account then withdrawn all the cash then told the bank to close the account or unlinked it from PayPal.
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i sold a mobile a few years ago and id been pretty active buying/selling at the time, the funds were withheld untill the buyer left feedback to acknowledge he'd got it
 
Scania said:
OC/UK are pre-order only for £1499 yet numb nuts is willing to drop the price even though he was already asking £250 less yet you didn’t smell a rat?


A fool and his money.....
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To be fair the strix OC can be had for around £1295 on certain retailers, it may be £1500 here and elsewhere but that's at the extreme edge of the gouging scale.
 
cainer said:
i sold a mobile a few years ago and id been pretty active buying/selling at the time, the funds were withheld untill the buyer left feedback to acknowledge he'd got it
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It does vary and depends if you have sold similar items before. I think Ebay/paypal more likely to withhold with mobiles nowadays. I have sold high end stuff for over £1000 and not had the funds frozen, equally I have sold a £300 item and they were frozen for a while.
 
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Clov!s said:
Smarttech outlet and Box_uk are the same seller then? As those are 2 of the accounts in those listings.
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Strange as when I click on them it says there all from the same seller

Ebay Item Numbers
283269584276
283269560301
283267885701
283266298156
283261471449
283179127202
 
Clov!s said:
Smarttech outlet and Box_uk are the same seller then? As those are 2 of the accounts in those listings.
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It says "the listing you are looking for has ended" Those are sold by the scammer. When you scroll further it has "we found something similar" which are from real retailers such as smarttech and nox_uk. The way it's formatted makes it look like they sold the original item.
 
OP you are a noob.

Why would you buy a graphics card, let alone a £1000+ one on eBay of all places.

Step away from the internetz.
 
I bought a 20quid amazon stick off ebay the other day off ebay and turned out to be a hacked account (ebay identified before me).

They allowed me to receive a refund sharpish.

I appreciate yours is a different scale of cost but generally ebay buyers are quite well protected.
 
Gerard said:
To be fair the strix OC can be had for around £1295 on certain retailers, it may be £1500 here and elsewhere but that's at the extreme edge of the gouging scale.
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The Strix is a good card undoubtedly - I’ve had a Strix 1070 in the past - but, is it £295 better than the Palit? (Which is fundamentally the same card give or take a few MHz) I can’t see it by any means,if it was say £50-£100 different then maybe but nigh £300 more? Jesus!
 
Scania said:
The Strix is a good card undoubtedly - I’ve had a Strix 1070 in the past - but, is it £295 better than the Palit? (Which is fundamentally the same card give or take a few MHz) I can’t see it by any means,if it was say £50-£100 different then maybe but nigh £300 more? Jesus!
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Asus tax on top of binned GPU tax, it's around 100mhz faster or so. But not worth the price hike imo. RRP is meant to be around £1200 but of course there's a convenient shortage of them so etailers get to work ratcheting the price up.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
i've never had that happen
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well it happened to me, and also Greebo, so there ya go

Greebo said:
It does vary and depends if you have sold similar items before. I think Ebay/paypal more likely to withhold with mobiles nowadays. I have sold high end stuff for over £1000 and not had the funds frozen, equally I have sold a £300 item and they were frozen for a while.
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I haven't had funds locked since I last had like <50 feedback.

I would guess it is all algorithm based and decides on certain behaviours. IP address, Device ID, Password last changed etc as well as feedback, exactly what you have sold before, the category of the item you are selling now.

Whilst I'm not a frequent seller, for a frequent seller an aggressive algorithm would just be too obtrusive and would mess with cashflow.
 
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