gtx590 evga classified £285 new.

Dazboots · 8 Mar 2012 at 10:40

just looked on the famous aution site and seen this, evga gtx590 classified £285 brand new. this guy has a few of them was going to press the hit buy it button but i think its a scam. what do u guys think, thx in response.

rubin1961 · 8 Mar 2012 at 10:50

scam me thinks

Speed · 8 Mar 2012 at 10:52

Bit of a cliche now but the saying "If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is" seems to fit here.

Low feedback user, from Canada for an extremely rare and expensive card which will have no warranty if it ever turns up and the price doesn't include postage to the UK.

Rik1254 · 8 Mar 2012 at 10:54

Buy it and use paypal?....bit idiot proof really, he scams you, you claim back all costs...seempuls.

Mean Mr Mustard · 8 Mar 2012 at 10:55

Far too good to be true. Card is being sold for more than half price; I'm no retail expert but I don't believe that a supplier would give someone that good a deal on something which retails around the £600 mark normally.

Also, the guy has 30 feedback, none of which is recent (1 in the last 12 months).

Avoid like the plague IMO.

Speed · 8 Mar 2012 at 10:56

Rik1254 said:
Buy it and use paypal?....bit idiot proof really, he scams you, you claim back all costs...seempuls.

Sure if PayPal was 100% trustworthy and always sorted out claims, but they don't. If you really wanted to risk it, then pay on a Credit Card through PayPal and then at least you'd be covered with Section 75. But my advice would be don't!

Mean Mr Mustard said:
Far too good to be true. Card is being sold for more than half price; I'm no retail expert but I don't believe that a supplier would give someone that good a deal on something which retails around the £600 mark normally.

Also, the guy has 30 feedback, none of which is recent (1 in the last 12 months).

Avoid like the plague IMO.

Exactly and it is a rare card as well so they are not going to get that good of a deal on it.

555BUK · 8 Mar 2012 at 10:58

Scam. Only one feedback within the previous year, and most other feedback was for car spares. It is a fair bet that someones account has been hacked.

stulid · 8 Mar 2012 at 10:59

Dispatched from Nigeria?

Titchy · 8 Mar 2012 at 11:05

haha , he does offer great customer service and relationships though , check out his reply to the negative feed back as a seller he got for a car parts dvd .

Rusty0611 · 8 Mar 2012 at 11:10

Avoid like the plague!

andybird123 · 8 Mar 2012 at 11:49

Speed said:
Sure if PayPal was 100% trustworthy and always sorted out claims, but they don't. If you really wanted to risk it, then pay on a Credit Card through PayPal and then at least you'd be covered with Section 75. But my advice would be don't!

Nope, there was a test case recently and because of the way that PayPal works as an intermediary you can't prove that the money they take is specifically for the item you bought, you are paying PayPal via credit card and they are only promising to provide the service of giving money on your behalf to a 3rd party - so unless they fail to give the money to the 3rd party, they are not in breach of section 75

stulid · 8 Mar 2012 at 11:51

Nothings safe when it comes to that place.

Gregster · 8 Mar 2012 at 12:24

Deffo looks like all you will be buying is a headache

sandyle · 8 Mar 2012 at 12:25

I'd go nowhere near this - even if you could get the cash back out of Paypal it takes them an age to sort things out

Deception · 8 Mar 2012 at 12:35

Can just imagine it being bought and another thread popping up in GD about being scammed

BluSky · 8 Mar 2012 at 12:38

Seems very dodgy to me...

Freddie1980 · 8 Mar 2012 at 12:41

Anyone feel like biddig on he's auction cards? £10,000 a pop?

fantasticCG · 8 Mar 2012 at 12:46

Don't!!!

I've been running an eBay shop for 5 years now.
He has stated he accepts No returns, the card would probably work for a week or 2 then break. Avoid him

varkanoid · 8 Mar 2012 at 12:57

Ebay/Paypal dont heed to no returns, even though they have or had an option for it. If they deem in favour of the buyer regardless of whether it says no returns on the auction they will let the buyer return and get a refund.

Do not forget also the VAT and custom charge you will possibly get hit for too!

Speed · 8 Mar 2012 at 13:02

varkanoid said:
Ebay/Paypal dont heed to no returns, even though they have or had an option for it. If they deem in favour of the buyer regardless of whether it says no returns on the auction they will let the buyer return and get a refund.

Do not forget also the VAT and custom charge you will possibly get hit for too!

True yes, but there are many a horror story about PayPal and buyers who never see there money again. They may well go with the buyer 100% of the time, but not 100% of those buyers get their money back.

Still it is far far too cheap not to be a scam, so for the love of god no one buy it.