Sold 5090 On eBay - Buyer says its faulty

Alt0153 · Sunday at 17:25

junpit said:
CEX pays 1k for a 5090 so that’s not a viable option unless they are so in demand that CEX buy for fulll price.

better 1k after buyers remorse hit after 3 months than nothing once it comes back broken from ebay buyer

Mcnumpty2323 · Sunday at 17:39

A bit strong to say it's their fault
Naive maybe would be somewhat kinder
They are the potential victim after all
Assuming it comes back not working

Hopefully you get it back and it's ok

Cex,Facebook, eBay are kind of the options
None of which are great

Your best bet for the future
Get your post count in here up to 1,000
And you will have access to members market
It's by far the best place to buy/sell stuff
You may have to sell a little below Ebay prices depending on item
But that also means you may buy stuff a bit cheaper too
Probably nothing is 100% certain but MM is about as close
As you can get

junpit · Sunday at 18:06

I didn’t know that was a thing. It would take a few years for me to get my post count that high.

junpit · Sunday at 18:12

I’ve sold many cards on eBay and this is the first time I’ve had an issue. The most probable event is that the guys connected a new PSU to it with different PSU cables.

If it comes back as the wrong GPU then I’ll obviously deal with that. We shall see next week.

Mcnumpty2323 · Sunday at 18:14

junpit said:
I didn’t know that was a thing. It would take a few years for me to get my post count that high.

Not at all
Theres a huge number of sections on these forums
Not just pc related
If you did 20 posts a day would take you 40 days
20 posts really wouldn't take long either
Say 1.5 minutes a post which is generous
So 30 minutes a day for just over a month

Pulseammo · Sunday at 18:25

I'd make sure that when the card comes back to you that you film the opening of the package so you have proof if they've put a brick in there or something stupid.

no_1_dave · Sunday at 18:51

The MM on here
The MM on AVforums
Facebook
CEX

The above are the only places I would ever sell an expensive GPU. I sold my 4090FE within a day of listing it on Facebook and the buyer was local, lived 15 minutes away so he came and paid by bank transfer. Anything worth over £150 or so is a no go for eBay.

When you get it back, if he has damaged it, at least you can claim on the warranty and then re-sell it somewhere else

sastusbulbas · Sunday at 19:31

You also have to take into account how it may have been handled in shipping.

facboy · Sunday at 19:52

no_1_dave said:
The MM on here
The MM on AVforums
Facebook
CEX

The above are the only places I would ever sell an expensive GPU. I sold my 4090FE within a day of listing it on Facebook and the buyer was local, lived 15 minutes away so he came and paid by bank transfer. Anything worth over £150 or so is a no go for eBay.

When you get it back, if he has damaged it, at least you can claim on the warranty and then re-sell it somewhere else

do you mind sharing what you sold it for (ballpark?). i need to sell mine and am unsure on what's reasonable to expect, some of the prices people ask on ebay they must be kidding themselves.

hyperseven · Sunday at 20:05

facboy said:
do you mind sharing what you sold it for (ballpark?). i need to sell mine and am unsure on what's reasonable to expect, some of the prices people ask on ebay they must be kidding themselves.

just use advanced search and sold items

Tetras · Sunday at 20:10

junpit said:
The report stated that “the pc arrived with the power supply missing and the old PSU cables still connected”.

If someone can remove a power supply like that, what would they need a shop for? Sounds uber dodgy.

junpit · Sunday at 20:17

Tetras said:
If someone can remove a power supply like that, what would they need a shop for? Sounds uber dodgy.

That was my thinking. Why take the PSU out unless you’re trying to install it yourself. He took the PC less the original PSU to the shop.

Unfortunately the original cables were still attached when the shop looked at it. It’s obvious what’s happened.

So I think it’s unlikely I’ll receive a different unit or a different serial.

junpit · Sunday at 20:31

no_1_dave said:
The MM on here
The MM on AVforums
Facebook
CEX

The above are the only places I would ever sell an expensive GPU. I sold my 4090FE within a day of listing it on Facebook and the buyer was local, lived 15 minutes away so he came and paid by bank transfer. Anything worth over £150 or so is a no go for eBay.

When you get it back, if he has damaged it, at least you can claim on the warranty and then re-sell it somewhere else

I’ll work to get MM access here I think. I already have MM access at avforums. I should have perhaps tried that before eBay. You live and learn.

Tetras · Sunday at 21:01

junpit said:
That was my thinking. Why take the PSU out unless you’re trying to install it yourself. He took the PC less the original PSU to the shop.

Unfortunately the original cables were still attached when the shop looked at it. It’s obvious what’s happened.

So I think it’s unlikely I’ll receive a different unit or a different serial.

It could be that their old PSU was just totally unsuitable. The fact that they asked the shop to install a PSU and the 5090, suggests that it may have worked initially.

Though, it is also possible they only used the shop to legitimise their fault report.

How long a gap was there between the sale and the contact?

ANDREW GREEN · Sunday at 21:05

junpit said:
That was my thinking. Why take the PSU out unless you’re trying to install it yourself. He took the PC less the original PSU to the shop.

Unfortunately the original cables were still attached when the shop looked at it. It’s obvious what’s happened.

So I think it’s unlikely I’ll receive a different unit or a different serial.

So you sold him a whole PC with the 5090 and he's claiming it came without the PSU, when you posted it with the PSU? Sorry to say if that's the case, it sounds like he's just made up a story to make a fake claim to the Bay. Unless the CPU in the PC was garbage but why wouldn't you just buy a card and not a whole PC? It doesn't compute

junpit · Sunday at 21:09

ANDREW GREEN said:
So you sold him a whole PC with the 5090 and he's claiming it came without the PSU, when you posted it with the PSU? Sorry to say if that's the case, it sounds like he's just made up a story to make a fake claim to the Bay. Unless the CPU in the PC was garbage but why wouldn't you just buy a card and not a whole PC? It doesn't compute

No. I just sold him the 5090. The rest is his pc. I was explaining the report from the shop. My 5090 arrived and he took it to the shop 2 hours later.

junpit · Sunday at 21:13

I’ll feed back exactly what has happened when I receive the card. I suspect somethings not right.

SuperElectric · Sunday at 21:16

The 'Bay giveth and the 'Bay taketh away.

I sold a 5080 and 4090 on ebay this year, both went through without much drama, the extra profit is worth the roll of the dice imo.

Or maybe that's just the degen in me talking :cry:

ANDREW GREEN · Sunday at 21:17

junpit said:
No. I just sold him the 5090. The rest is his pc. I was explaining the report from the shop. My 5090 arrived and he took it to the shop 2 hours later.

Let's just hope the PSU wasn't capable of powering it. I once bought a 780 on the Bay, started at first them blew a ton of dust out of it and wouldn't register. But I was only running it on a PSU that was 450-500 watts from memory, so it might have been my fault without me knowing. So I returned for a refund.

Marak · Monday at 10:54

Pulseammo said:
I'd make sure that when the card comes back to you that you film the opening of the package so you have proof if they've put a brick in there or something stupid.

I sometimes do this when sending high value items. I film it working in the PC then continue to film the removal and packaging and the trip to the post office to be delivered.

Bit paranoid and haven't yet had an issue where I've needed this proof but it gives a little peace of mind.