eBay seller and his dodgy 4870 x2 listing...

d_brennen · 1 Oct 2009 at 09:43

First off I'm not sure if I can link to the item because of the forum rules... Would be a shame if not because it is worth a giggle. This chap has a 4870 x2 that is seemingly faulty for sale on bids. He claims to be clueless about graphics cards and does not know what is wrong with this one... It bluescreens after he installs the drivers from the disk provided (lol?). This peaked my interest, first thought being his PSU might not be up to it... Yet his 3 latest feedback points as a seller are relativly high end GPUs lol.

Moral of the story, if someone on eBay says "I'm not sure whats wrong with this, you may be able to get it working..." the item is almost 101% certainly fooked.

How would a clueless gimp come to own a 4870 x2

magicroundabout · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:11

i love the way he's added "still faster than a 5870"

Sapphire HD 4870 X2 2GB graphics card

The card boots up and runs fine, but when I install the drivers from the CD, I get a blue screen almost instantly. I am told by some people on online forums that it's because of drivers conflictions with the Nvidia drivers, and that I should uninstall them or reinstall Windows by following some complicated process. Frankly, I don't know how and I can't be arsed to do that so I'm putting it up for sale on the bay and going back to my old 8800 GT.

Happy bidding and if it does work fine and I'm just clueless, you'll have one hell of a card for a great price! You can't lose.

'Wes · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:14

Don't like ebay.

Mrjobby · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:22

Ebay is full of scamming ******** and somthing should be done about this "untested" ********.

Makes my **** boil every time I see a dead top end gpu go for 50-100 lol

Then again fools are easily parted from their money...

No swearing

magicroundabout · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:26

calm down dear....................it's only an advert!!!!

D1ngd0ng · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:32

Just nipped over and thought the Arctic Cooling kits with £33.57 p&p were even better

Rambo2683 · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:46

Some1 robbed my £110 on that damn site when I won a 1900XTX once. Was a hacked account and it ruined my upgrade completely. Couldn't afford it in the end and I had to send back the parts I had bought from online retailers.

Hate the place to be honest. And god help you if you need support, it's game over. Second only to the uselessness of the Indians on the Paypal support hotline.

grrrrrrrr

Durzel · 1 Oct 2009 at 11:03

Don't see what the big deal is to be honest - he's listing his experience with it, claims it could be faulty and therefore will sell for a knockdown price regardless of whether it actually works or not.

Would you sooner he list it as being in perfect condition even though it isn't and he knows it isn't?

magicroundabout · 1 Oct 2009 at 11:05

Rambo2683 said:
Some1 robbed my £110 on that damn site when I won a 1900XTX once. Was a hacked account and it ruined my upgrade completely. Couldn't afford it in the end and I had to send back the parts I had bought from online retailers.

Hate the place to be honest. And god help you if you need support, it's game over. Second only to the uselessness of the Indians on the Paypal support hotline.

grrrrrrrr

i spoke to a nice scottish guy from Paypal the other day. most helpful

nutter · 1 Oct 2009 at 11:08

E-Bay is for the homeless, your own fault for buying off that dump.

******(can't name it, but is the big one) Marketplace is place to go, they DO cover you if anything goes wrong.

As guy above me says, the guy has done nothing wrong, so why you have started this thread mocking him only you know :confused:

gurusan · 1 Oct 2009 at 11:13

When 4870s were first out there were loads of dead ones from people flashing with their 64kb dumped GPU-Z bios, I made a few hundred by buying "dead" ones from the bay and merely flashing them with the proper 128kb bios.

But yes, for the most part if the user claims ignorance and is selling an "untested" gpu or something then it's most likely dead.

D1ngd0ng · 1 Oct 2009 at 11:14

Wonder how he managed to get 2 faulty cards

Rambo2683 · 1 Oct 2009 at 11:24

magicroundabout said:
i spoke to a nice scottish guy from Paypal the other day. most helpful

Why do I get the Indians every single time then! I've had to ring multiple times before now.
One time when my password wouldn't work and neither would the request password feature. It took about 2 weeks to resolve, was hideous, ended up having to fax them photographic ID and proof of address, not to mention the price of 5 calls whereby it takes 5 minutes each time to get past the HUGELY annoying automated voice so you can speak to an Indian.
I don't even try emailing them, they send me back a pre-generated reply every single time and leave it at that.

:eek:

nutter · 1 Oct 2009 at 11:26

Rambo2683 said:
Why do I get the Indians every single time then! I've had to ring multiple times before now.
One time when my password wouldn't work and neither would the request password feature. It took about 2 weeks to resolve, was hideous, ended up having to fax them photographic ID and proof of address, not to mention the price of 5 calls whereby it takes 5 minutes each time to get past the HUGELY annoying automated voice so you can speak to an Indian.
I don't even try emailing them, they send me back a pre-generated reply every single time and leave it at that.

On plus side, some lovely indian man is now living off your ID

Rambo2683 · 1 Oct 2009 at 11:40

haha yup!

Rezident · 1 Oct 2009 at 13:09

The words "you can't lose" in a sales pitch usually set off alarm bells alright.

Ease · 1 Oct 2009 at 13:27

nutter said:
E-Bay is for the homeless, your own fault for buying off that dump.

******(can't name it, but is the big one) Marketplace is place to go, they DO cover you if anything goes wrong.

eBay and Paypal have always covered me pretty well. I bought an Xbox 360 off there; the moment it was a week late no response from the seller I got all my money back from Paypal. I also got a PS3 off their for a good £70 less than retail, with four games, and it was barely a week old. Definitely not for the homeless; more for the savvy and cautious.

sturmtruppe · 1 Oct 2009 at 13:28

I think its ok if you kow what your doing, me and bro use it all the time.

bought my xeon for £170 whereas at the time a q9550 would have cost me £200 - yes the xeon was new, the box was crumpled slightly but the intel seals were intact.

toon_mad · 1 Oct 2009 at 13:37

never had a problem yet with ebay touchwood

you just have to be careful who you deal with, as with anything really.

MCH · 1 Oct 2009 at 13:46

ok this is obviously not something i would purchase but i have made many good purchases from ebay.