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Just bought a 1080ti for £108??

Wow, selling my Aorus 1080ti extreme for £400 cash seems a steal now for the buyer, but it is what it is, they were fetching around £400 - £450 at the time on eBay, but I sold mine on FB marketplace.
 
Reddit hardware swap uk is where I've sold a couple of pieces. You can get roughly ebay minus 10-15% prices ( so the ebay commission basically, and PayPals cut) there. Not had any issues by following the rules there.
 
Wrinkly said:
I've never bothered selling older hardware, but now have a 7950, r290, 980Ti and 1080Ti sitting idle on the shelf. Where is a better place to sell other than on the MM here?
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Faceache market place (local to you) or the MM on here I'd say. 1080ti will go for a mint mate, and that 980ti. Nice tidy sum selling those two.
 
evohicks said:
Wow, selling my Aorus 1080ti extreme for £400 cash seems a steal now for the buyer, but it is what it is, they were fetching around £400 - £450 at the time on eBay, but I sold mine on FB marketplace.
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I bought a 2080ti aorus Xtreme for £460 or so iirc. With a water block on lol.

Fat chance of that ever happening again so I kept it even though I don't really need it.
 
slim01 said:
Should I message the seller or fleabay? Maybe they can track where the money is actually going and catch them?
No idea how this stuff works.
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ebay are very unhelpful. You just wait for their computer, which means that you wait until the delivery date has expired, then you start the claim process. This will not be quick but you should be covered. The real problem is if you receive anything at all then that may suffice to convince ebay that it is you who are the scammer.
 
pp111 said:
ebay are very unhelpful. You just wait for their computer, which means that you wait until the delivery date has expired, then you start the claim process. This will not be quick but you should be covered. The real problem is if you receive anything at all then that may suffice to convince ebay that it is you who are the scammer.
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I doubt he will receive anything. Chances are they are in Russia or somewhere like that.

About three years ago I bought a Xeon on Ebay for a very cheap price. It was a cash grab fake listing. There were loads, but I would have kicked myself if it turned out it was real so I took the chance.

You have to wait a couple of weeks, then you can start the chasing. Unless of course loads of people report them. Then your listing will tell you the seller has been banned and how to recoup your cash. Then it's a matter of, like said, waiting on computers. The refund takes 3-5 days as said. It's 3 business days, but if the weekend comes in the middle it may take 5. Funny how computers take the weekend off, when hardly any humans do these days.

I recently got caught by a "drop shipper". The listing said it was in stock (this was Ebay). Then when I bought it the supposed arrival date was 2 weeks. So I had to wait those two weeks, even though I emailed him and he admitted they didn't hold the item in stock and were waiting on it from their drop shipper. Then I had to get a refund, wait another 5 days before I could buy another part (as I tied up my cash with it). It wasn't even cheap, but yeah what a ball ache.
 
HRL said:
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If someone is on benefits and unemployed why should they be buying a costly GPU? That’s not what the money is for.

Unless I’ve completely misread the post.
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If I was on benefits and a saw a 1080ti for £108, I would 100% purchase it (presuming it wasnt a scam of course)
 
I bought something similar from US ebay a few weeks back, the account was 10 years old and had loads of good feedback.

The account had been hacked and the money was seemingly skimmed asap from paypal.
I got my money back after a week or two, but due to paying in dollars, I was charged £10 for conversion both ways for the privilege.
 
I've reported loads of these listings (multi 1080 Ti listings for stupid low prices from sellers who rarely sell and / or only sell non-IT stuff).

Not sure if it achieves anything...
 
HRL said:
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If someone is on benefits and unemployed why should they be buying a costly GPU? That’s not what the money is for.

Unless I’ve completely misread the post.
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That's not what I meant, but I can't believe you just said that. It's a pretty insulting statement. Are you seriously going to tell people on benefits how they must spend their money? Could you put them down any more? Maybe print "failure" on their forehead?
 
Robi_uk said:
If someone was on benefit would they have £108 to spare? I thought benefits only just provided enough for the necessities?
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Absolutely. The media is full of people who rip off the benefits system, but the vast majority of people on the system get barely enough to get by. And by no means are all unemployed people just lazy people. Many are disabled, and or just temporarily out of work ~ who have paid National Insurance for most of their working lives. Most people reading this would really struggle to manage on £74.70 a week. Buying a £100 GPU is pretty much impossible for such people.
 
slim01 said:
Just went on a well known auction site and saw a founders 1080ti for £108, bought as fast as I could (obviously), and much to my surprise the payment went through and the guy actually has good feedback and card described as mint condition.

Who wants to bet it never actually arrives? :D
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Few clues it could be a scam

1080ti for £108, Some people really lack imagination when making things up.

mint condition, for a 4 or 5 year old used card, seriously?
 
slim01 said:
Was just on the phone to eBay now to report suspicious activity.

Was quite odd they wouldn't even cancel, said it has to be the seller that cancels as when you buy something it's a legally binding contract. Even though it looks shifty AF. Wouldn't even look into it. Wasn't interested in the same pics being found on google elsewhere.

That's obviously why people do these things, they know the loopholes.

She said they'd only remove the listing if enough people report as suspicious, and in the 5 mins I was on the phone she said it had been removed... But... By the seller himself? So odd.
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Ebay dont care you hit the nail on the head above in bold.

~>Dg<~ said:
there is fake ones about maybe its those aswell. some youtuber covered this recently. probably like the fake 1050tis.
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I've got one of the fake 960's bought it for a fiver (sold as fake) just to see what it was out of curiosity and you can turn them back to the original card with a BIOS update. Its actually a GT 450 512mb.

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Benass said:
Im wondering why this took of like that.
If u make a sale on ebay, your money gets frozen untill u make a delivery.
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No it doesnt, under paypal you got your money within 2 hrs of the bidder paying, now with this new horrible payment system it can take 2-7 days you've never had to wait for delivery.
 
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