Bad experience with RTX2080ti eBay

DampCat · 28 Nov 2018 at 20:08

ubersonic said:
They may be "literally" replying "lol", but they're not actually audibly laughing, so it's only figurative #mindblown.

I'm confused. Your clever use of " implies there isn't a literal post that says only "lol". Would you like me to find it?

DampCat · 28 Nov 2018 at 20:08

Slam62 said:
Lol

I did it anyway.

Malevolence · 28 Nov 2018 at 20:25

johnyt said:
Unless the driver does a runnner lol.

It's not the driver you should be worried about with a RTX2080Ti.

Biggilus · 28 Nov 2018 at 22:14

Epic packaging, Jeezzzz

ubersonic · 28 Nov 2018 at 23:19

DampCat said:
I'm confused.

It's British humour. You said they are literally typing lol, which is an abbreviation of laughing out loud, an emote used by people to show they are laughing in real life, however as their not actually laughing it means they must be using it figuratively (the opposite of literally), and so the situation is humorous.

anthony99 · 1 Dec 2018 at 21:39

johnyt said:
I tell you what I was a bit excited before the shoe box of Wii manuals arrived. I was all up for recording a little unboxing video too. Sorta wish I did anyway.

that would have been youtube gold

Diagro · 2 Dec 2018 at 02:08

Screeeech said:
I'd guess that the seller is a genuine seller, who's Ebay account and Paypal account have both been compromised (same password for both maybe, or maybe someone obtained his information, maybe he was scammed and his information was harvested )

In such a case by my thinking, it might be possible to do it;

The criminal uses the password to login to the compromised Ebay account and list the card (hoping the account owner won't notice)

The card sells quickly (low price, high demand), buyer pays with paypal (account owner still doesn't notice)

Because the seller account has previous good history, the money isn't held by Paypal

Criminal immediately transfers the money to a different Paypal account <like a buffer account>, followed by a bank account somewhere.

Paypal catch up and shut down the accounts, but by that time the money could have traversed several accounts / countries,

Considering this probably happens thousands, or tens of thousands of times per day - it's simply not economically viable to go traipsing all over the world trying to track it down - so they take the hit on it.

I think those are my basic thoughts on how it might happen, and it does happen a lot - so somebody must be making some money somewhere.

That is basically what happens

McGraw · 2 Dec 2018 at 02:18

ubersonic said:
It's British humour. You said they are literally typing lol, which is an abbreviation of laughing out loud, an emote used by people to show they are laughing in real life, however as their not actually laughing it means they must be using it figuratively (the opposite of literally), and so the situation is humorous.

Good try, but you used “their” incorrectly.

ubersonic · 2 Dec 2018 at 02:49

McGraw said:
Good try, but you used “their” incorrectly.

Oh noes, it's "teh grammar police"

johnyt · 10 Dec 2018 at 18:07

Most of you have probably lost interest by now but here's an update:

I had to wait 8 days for the seller to respond. 8 days and 1 hour later the return was accepted though I'm sure it was eBay's intervention at this point. I returned the wii manuals and xbox game but used a different box to what they came in. I wanted to keep the orange shoe box with the packing label as proof that a RTX2080 could not physically fit inside. I added the tracking number to the returns thing on ebay but I had a bad feeling the seller would refuse the parcel. It turns out they didn't. The status updated saying it had arrived and I should get a refund by the 5th of December. A refund was not issued by the seller so I had to request eBay step in again. I was told to wait 48hrs for the situation to be reviewed but again no refund came.
Fed up I gave eBay a call. I was told because it is a high value item a supervisor had to give the OK for the refund to be issued and this could take an extra 48hrs.
Finally today I had a notification to say the refund has been approved and issued.

With the exception of the phone call everything happen'd within the automated returns process, just a bit annoying I had to wait the full term of each process. I never got the the bottom of what the sellers deal was. I had no response from the moment I started the return and eBay couldn't give me any information for obvious security reasons. Just don't buy anything from forgotten games HQ in Gateshead.

ChrisD. · 10 Dec 2018 at 18:11

Glad the outcome is a positive one.

johnyt said:
With the exception of the phone call everything happen'd within the automated returns process, just a bit annoying I had to wait the full term of each process. I never got the the bottom of what the sellers deal was. I had no response from the moment I started the return and eBay couldn't give me any information for obvious security reasons. Just don't buy anything from forgotten games HQ in Gateshead.

Seller's account has been hacked.

diamount · 10 Dec 2018 at 20:38

MikeTheNative said:
In 2016 I managed to get a 1080 for £310. It was on the Amazon market place and obviously did look suspicious but the seller had good rep and quite a lot as well. Since it was through Amazon I wasn't too worried about a scam as it would have been resonantly simple to get my money back (also used a credit card). I did end up receiving the item, which was correct and legit. Soon after ordering they were taken off sale and put back later at normal price so it was a simple pricing error they actually honoured.

Stolen goods then?

MikeTheNative · 10 Dec 2018 at 21:39

diamount said:
Stolen goods then?

I doubt it, item was put back on at full price not long after I ordered. They have 60,000 rep on Amazon so that's a lot of stolen items.

Blackjack Davy · 11 Dec 2018 at 03:38

ChrisD. said:
Glad the outcome is a positive one.

Seller's account has been hacked.

Possibly. Its a bit of a mystery why anything was sent at all but I suppose they need the signature as proof of delivery. Whoever it was wasn't aware that eBay sides with the buyer regardless so was a pointless exercise. Normally they just take the money any which way and vanish, which all points to an amateurish effort at a scam.

IvanDobskey · 11 Dec 2018 at 07:11

johnyt said:
Most of you have probably lost interest by now but here's an update:

I had to wait 8 days for the seller to respond. 8 days and 1 hour later the return was accepted though I'm sure it was eBay's intervention at this point. I returned the wii manuals and xbox game but used a different box to what they came in. I wanted to keep the orange shoe box with the packing label as proof that a RTX2080 could not physically fit inside. I added the tracking number to the returns thing on ebay but I had a bad feeling the seller would refuse the parcel. It turns out they didn't. The status updated saying it had arrived and I should get a refund by the 5th of December. A refund was not issued by the seller so I had to request eBay step in again. I was told to wait 48hrs for the situation to be reviewed but again no refund came.
Fed up I gave eBay a call. I was told because it is a high value item a supervisor had to give the OK for the refund to be issued and this could take an extra 48hrs.
Finally today I had a notification to say the refund has been approved and issued.

With the exception of the phone call everything happen'd within the automated returns process, just a bit annoying I had to wait the full term of each process. I never got the the bottom of what the sellers deal was. I had no response from the moment I started the return and eBay couldn't give me any information for obvious security reasons. Just don't buy anything from forgotten games HQ in Gateshead.

Glad you got your money back

But I wouldn't buy anything of real value full stop off fleabay