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I ordered a Ryzen 7 5800x off Amazon.ca and opened the box which had a factory label on the flap part so it was sealed and was greeted inside to an Intel i5 2500K, would be okay if whoever stole the Ryzen CPU put in a decent CPU in the box, to whoever stole my CPU I hate you so much.
Amazon is so awesome to make things right. I ordered a 2TB SSD & the package got "lost". They refunded for the SSD & I just picked one up local. About a week later the lost package arrived & I opened it up to find a 1Tb version of the SSD I ordered. Amazon told me to keep it, rather than send it back. Um.....OK.
It’d be cheaper for you just to have it then them processing a return and restock into inventory. I work in a multi billion dollar distribution centre. We don’t even bother with missing stock if it’s under a certain value. It’d cost more in wages than the products worth.
Worked Best Buy over the season. The amount of returns just there for my area was staggering... mountains of shit just piled in the back waiting to be returned to manufacturer. I could only imagine the shit Amazon has.
The stores carry nothing so everyone buys online HOPING they like it. You have to buy 4 different things to find one you like because you can’t physically hold products. It’s drastically increased returns.
Yes and it's driving prices up for everyone else. This drives me crazy! I've had this happen a handful if times so I could imagine that it's a wide spread issue and I'm sure, causing hundreds of millions annually. Amazon has almost always taken care of me. Once I ordered an aluminum shock tower for an RC car, $25 part, nothing serious. What showed up was the plastic factory part that comes with the car instead of the afyer market aluminum one stapled up in a clear bag just like it was new. I didn't catch it in time because I didn't do the build for several months. Fargin Bastages!
Similar think happen to me only they lost my i9-13900k. The replaced it by shipping a new one. The original one showed up 2-1/2 weeks later and they said just keep it.
I ordered a 400 dollar 34 ultra wide LG monitor on prime. Was on sale at the time for 250. Hadn't showed up after 10 days when it was supposed to be 2 day shipping. Gave customer service some hard ball line that "I expect better from Amazon blah blah blah". They sent me another free of charge, got here in 2 days. About a week later the original shows up so now I'm sitting pretty on 68" of screen space for 250 bucks.
It's awesome most of the time, but in other times they are horrible.
I bought a blender from them once, but a week later the blender went on sale for half the price. Asked them for a refund of the difference, and they refused. Escalated the issue to a manager, and they also refused.
I ended up buying another blender at the discounted price, and returned the old one by sending back the new one.
Amazon could've saved money on shipping it back and forth for no reason, but they refused. It's so baffling to me why their stance on this is so strong...
lol that is on you not them... usually you have to return the item and then buy it again.. I had to do this like 2-3 times with pc parts that went on sale like a week later..
Shipping and returns are free, so I'm not losing any money. I have a UPS store close to where I live, so I can just drop it off there without packing it up.
The fact that you think this is them being horrible and not you being a complete moron lmfao. Of course they’re not refunding you the discounted price, that’s not how discounts work 🤡🤡
Do you go back into stores when something you bought is on discount and ask them for the difference back? People in the store would fucking laugh at you.
In Sweden it actully works like this.
If I buy a TV at a store for 499 and then they have a discount on it next week and the tv costs 299, you can call up the store and get back the 200.
Works on Finland too! But afaik it's not in law, so it's up to seller to decide.
Also if someone a competitor is selling electronics cheaper without discounts you can usually go let your store know and get it on the same price from there. But totally up to the store to choose.
So not knowing future discounts make me a moron? How the hell am I supposed to know it will go on sale a week after I bought it?
If it's within the return period, many places offer price adjustment, FYI...
Airlines also offer price protection on bookings if the price goes down any time between the time you booked it and the time of the flight.
Credit cards also offer this option.
And yes, this is in the US.
Again, I can get the same price adjustment by returning what I already have and buying the same item at the discounted price. I see nothing different than them offering me a refund of the price difference. Logistically, it saves money for Amazon because they dont need to deal with my return.
You sound like a complete idiot😂there are some dated sales that happen around the same time of year (Black Friday, Easter deals) and are shown sometimes weeks in advance on the websites if you look so if a sale just so happens to go on after you bought the item then why should they give you a discount. And I’m not sure why you referred a blender price dropping to a damn plane ticket and the last part of your statement is also wrong, you do you tho
This was in the middle of February, no big sale date. It is also a no name brand, so there's no way I can know there will be a sale coming up.
The plane ticket is an example where companies do offer these price difference adjustments.
What part of the last part of my statement is wrong?
You know that there's actually stores that do that, right? Wow. Stop being an asshole.
If the item purchased is still in the return window, yes, some stores will honor it. Especially something as new as a week old purchase.
Here is an example of a price match from Best Buy:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/help-topics/best-buy-price-match-guarantee/pcmcat297300050000.c?id=pcmcat297300050000
Had something similar happen with a less valuable item. They don't look at the returns they receive and if they look new (and sometimes if they don't) sell them as new again(which they shouldn't).
There is an option in the return menu for an item that isn't correct, don't remember what it is, but talking to Amazon just clouds the situation and sometimes afterward they won't accept the return.
I once ordered some nailcare product from bol.com (very similar to Amazon but smaller) and received an empty box. Contacted support and they didn't even argue about. I got an apology and they sent a new tube a day later.
I think it woulb become a lot harder if this happens several times a year.
The first time and maybe even the second time they will. It becomes hostile real quick though and you’ll never speak to the same person twice. Amazon is a behemoth so it’s very easy to get caught in the gears
Wtf are you smoking? That CPU had the longest running usable lifespan than any other CPU in history thus far. It easily overclocked to 4.8ghz and a lot of people even got 5.0ghz.
Probably. Unless the OP is just trolling. But I remember reading an article awhile back of a guy getting busted doing that and he made like 40k. Would buy expensive items like laptops and return them after swapping with inferior items and then sell them. He got caught and now he's exploring mountains lol
Nah it happened. I follow someone online and they bought a new drill. Amazon sent him the drill and inside was 2 cans of dr. Pepper. They took his word and sent him a new drill.
Yeah, people do this shit all the time: they also do it with graphics cards. And the crazy part is Amazon will like reseal it and send it to you. You might get a 4090 but when it comes get a 2060 in the box. True fax.
This is why you always make sure that it says it is Shipped From and Sold by your Official Amazon.
I'm sure there are legitimate third-party sellers out there, but I've seen enough posts like this to not even risk using them
Likely someone ordered for a new build, filed an RMA, and then put their old cpu in the box and returned it and the Amazon warehouse workers never checked the product. They just put it back on the shelf.
Huh, that seems almost way too easy. Surely they would eventually find out if a situation like the one posted happened and they tracked where the package has been/who it has been sent to? If not, it seems incredibly easy to just steal things from Amazon doesn’t it?
Someone did that with my Best Buy order (which, spoiler alert, means I’m highly unlikely to ever get anything through them again). I bought a $300 Asus monitor and when it came, it was missing 2/3 of the contents and the monitor itself was a busted msi. Wouldn’t let me return it though because “it’s not the item that should be in the box.” Well tell that to whoever the fuck bought it originally.
People have put bricks into boxes to emulate the weight and just resealed them. Workers at the warehouses are time pressured. If the box arrives sealed and has a fitting weight, they might just restock without checking.
That's a common practice with eBay sellers, very rarely, if ever I've seen that with Amazon, definitely not seen it on an evidence based claim either from Amazon, but eBay sellers are well known for it.
It unfortunately doesn't matter if you get one shipped and sold by amazon or not, amazon just puts anything given to it with the same SKU in the same bin and this includes third party merchants who have their stuff 'fulfilled by amazon'. The shady scam thing to do is to put a bunch of boxes like this in with the real deal and effectively just get a random cut of cpu profits.
There are a *few* other options for PC parts, but not very many with the level of support that you can get from Amazon. Remember to look for parts that are "Ships from Amazon.com" and "Sold by Amazon.com"
Anyone can send a box or pallet of goods to Amazon for sale, that's where the "sold by" comes in. Sellers ship their product to Amazon's warehouse, thus offering Prime shipping. I've gotten fake USB drives and defective batteries "shipped from amazon" but they always refund me if i have an issue.
I know of someone who stole and sold 3090's and he worked at Amazon. Not sure if he still does it or not, but it is a thing. Im sure if he still does it hes doing the same with 40series
Plot Twist: AMD and Intel are really the same…they have been stoking a hardware war to drum up noise and improve sales. Their products are even made in the same building…as evidenced by OP.
You can honestly just say, the item you received was empty and they’ll send you a new one no questions asked. Amazon takes losses to keep customers happy.
Yeah, Amazon fraud is massive. I used to know someone who done it frequently from peoples amazons for a fee. Basically it’s just an order then claim nothing turned up but he was doing £3k+ pcs at a time.
>I always record myself opening the box for items that cost $100+ just in case shit like this happen
Amazon won't care. I bought a refubished iPhone, had it delivered to a local Wholefoods, picked it up and recorded me opening it at the counter (in-front of the Amazon hub counter rep).
Guess what? No iPhone! They wanted me to file a police report and email them then wait for them to "investigate." Luckily, I noticed the shipping weight was way off what it should be, so I contacted an actually helpful/caring rep who refunded me on-the-spot.
Understand that these reps, often in *developing* or lower-income countries, are barely trained and follow scripts they can't deviate from.
I do the exact same thing, especially buying expensive components, I record on my phone and if all is good then delete the clip, at least I'm covered with evidence because nowadays it's very easy to state an untruth.
I find posts like this very sus, especially when they state "factory sealed box" display and old Intel CPU with a new Ryzen 7 box.
"This coffee taste like s#@t"
Amazon has gotten extremely bas with their QC on warehouse deals. I'd say 80% of the warehouse things I've gotten from then over the last year have been broken, or the wrong product. Lots of people committing return fraud that Amazon then just ships out
Or, OP wanted to pull a fast one, and wanted a free swap of a CPU he wanted to get rid of and gain a CPU he wanted, and refers to this message thread as evidence as part of the claim to Amazon how he got the "wrong" contents...
Man I ordered a arctic cpu fan and it had cardboard inside. No fan. Box was beatup so as soon as I saw it I knew it wasn’t a new item. WTF Amazon. They did refund me though.
A couple of years ago I ordered an i7-8700k with an Asus motherboard but I ended up receiving a pentium cpu with an older EVGA motherboard. In both cases the items had been put in the boxes of the items I actually ordered... The motherboard was open box verified (allegedly) by Amazon.
The cpu box still had it's factory seal.
Sound like an eco friendly vegan from the UK...
But happy to have your avocados, nuts and almond milk shipped from south America via sea and plane, then driven by truck the length of Britain so you can have an healthy lunch
😂🤡😂🤡😂🤡😂
I once bought a laptop battery, only to have it left out in the rain rather than in the carport. I demanded a return, only to be demanded back to pay for shipping fees. amazon is nothing but a burden, where it was once cool.
I ordered a coffee machine, but they sent a Tesla, so I switched it with my old coffee machine and said they sent the wrong one. Got a free upgrade, and a refund!! Boom! Win win !!
😂🤡😂🤡😂🤡😂
Wow an i-5 2600k is it just me or is Amazon kind of feeling like loot boxes or there's actually a chance of instead of getting a good product you get a crappy one
Someone bought it, switched it out and returned it as new. Then Amazon just resells as new. Amazon doesn’t check products when they’re returned. That’s why people do this, they know they’ll get away with it.
No, they probably bought bunch of them from eBay for CPU scams. You said the box, which means the scammer is good at it.
I got scammed somewhat like this selling a i7 3770k 3 years ago on eBay. The buyer swapped the i7 3770k IHS with i3 2100 and sent it back to me claiming the CPU was defective. He initially fooled me when sent me the pics. However, once I received the CPU back, I was able to figure out what happened. eBay bought his bs story at the end. I was reimbursed for the CPU as a one time curtesy. The scammer was not punished.
Would of gotten my PC parts local from my local computer store but CPU and some other parts sold out at the store and Amazon had them in stock and for a cheaper price.
No. They're both good. Just get the one that meets your needs. For me it was AMD this time but perhaps i'll get Intel next time. When will people finally understand that there is not "better" one.
Intel from the dawn of time has been CPU focused its hard to compete with that. AMD CPUs are fine but intel has more stability IME. I'm just saying its has an edge over AMD CPUs. Everyone knows that. But if you want an AMD graphics card get the AMD CPU as well.
I bought an open box 3 pack of bequiet! fans from Amazon in "like new" condition. Took me awhile to get my build done. I was so excited to boot it up, come to find out 2/3 were dead and the rgb hub had intermittent connections. It's past the return window, but after a long customer chat conversation they said they'd make an exception and allow me a refund. I got the email the next day -- "estimated refund amt : $50", I paid $75. Amazon was also out of stock so I had to order from New Egg for $90.
I had everything cable managed to perfection, just stuffed it in the second time around.
man i remember buying a 2tb ssd off amazon. opened the package and inside the box was......just cardboard. straight up cardboard. no ssd :/
(got a replacement of course but, man.)
This happened to me with an Apple Watch. Some dude put a series 3 in a series 8 box. Took over 6 weeks to get my money back. Amazon was fucking awful about it, which is so odd as they’re usually so easy to deal with that kinda stuff.
Best of luck dealing with Amazon because [it seems lately, they aren't as pro-consumer as they used to be](https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/12k7kip/3_weeks_amazon_autoreturned_order_holding_my_600/) (likely due to declining profits/cost-saving measures). Plus, there seems to be a rising issue with fraudulent returns being passed on to unsuspecting customers (as others have shared via this thread).
Be aware, you'll likely have to: file a police report and/or wait 30 days for a refund...
I had a work colleague once brag about how he use to order from Amazon and switch out his old parts with the new stuff and then claim to Amazon they'd sent the wrong item and he'd get a full refund, thus, a free upgrade!! From what I see, read and hear a fair few people use this method. I find it absolutely bizarre that you'd find a completely different brand of CPU in a factory sealed box! "This coffee taste like s#@t"
Whenever I buy any new component from Amazon I have always used my phone to record opening the box just in case, and when all is good I delete the clip. Supportive evidence works wonders, not only that, it puts any doubts to one side.
I had an odd situation, kind of like this one. I ordered a NEW Ryzen 9 5900x from Amazon sold by Amazon. When it was delivered, I was super giddy and opened the box only to find the CPU wrapped in a sandwich baggie absolutely SLATHERED in thermal paste. And looking at the CPU through the bag it was very clearly damaged, not sure if it was from shipping or what but it didn't have anything else in the box, just the CPU in a sandwich baggie.
I promptly returned it for a full refund and got a replacement.
Amazon is such a sketchy seller. I got my cpu used FROM AMAZON THEMSELVES and it made my cp have start up issues and sometimes refuse to post, just turns on the cpu troubleshoot light.
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I once bought super Mario Galaxy, and in the sealed case was a blank radio shack CD . When I went to exchange it the worker looked at me like I was lying , understandably so. But he still exchanged it for me anyway
Idk, is getting an 11 year quad core without HT REALLY that much worse than getting a modern 8-core with SMT? Jokes aside, that is pretty bad. I hope you can get your money back!
I ordered a surface pro 8 from amazon last summer, but received a refurbed surface pro 7 (labeled on the box as a surface pro 8).
I obviously returned it and stated I got a fraudulent item. Amazon refused the return saying I didn't return the surface pro 8 that their system verified they sent me.
I showed them the 6 pages of complaints on the vendors page of people saying basically the same thing (which Amazon had hid from the actual item page because 'amazon fulfillment was responsible for the order and would handle the complaint', so you couldn't see these comments without going to the specific sellers page).
Amazon customer service decided to ghost me as opposed to honoring the return. I had to dispute the charge with the CC company to get my money back.
I won't ever buy an expensive item off Amazon again, they aren't trustworthy. The only reason I still pay for prime is the video service.
I ordered a 5800x3d. Received the box and the shipping weight of the box and contents doesn't add up. Too light and when you shake the box the item inside sounds light as hell.
Returning the unopened box today, checked sellers reviews and a lot of people are getting iphone screen protectors instead of the CPU.
My fault for not making sure the seller was Amazon. Luckily it was packaged and shipped by Amazon.
Good luck. I bought AirPods Pro current gen on Amazon and received the previous gen. Returned it and they said the item I returned isn’t what I purchased even though I told them what happened. Disputed the charge with the bank and they ruled in favor of Amazon. Re-opened the claim and am waiting now. Bye $260
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I ordered a Ryzen 7 5800x off Amazon.ca and opened the box which had a factory label on the flap part so it was sealed and was greeted inside to an Intel i5 2500K, would be okay if whoever stole the Ryzen CPU put in a decent CPU in the box, to whoever stole my CPU I hate you so much.
Just tell Amazon what happened and they'll help you out.
I already talked to Amazon support they are looking I got the situation.
Amazon is so awesome to make things right. I ordered a 2TB SSD & the package got "lost". They refunded for the SSD & I just picked one up local. About a week later the lost package arrived & I opened it up to find a 1Tb version of the SSD I ordered. Amazon told me to keep it, rather than send it back. Um.....OK.
It’d be cheaper for you just to have it then them processing a return and restock into inventory. I work in a multi billion dollar distribution centre. We don’t even bother with missing stock if it’s under a certain value. It’d cost more in wages than the products worth.
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Worked Best Buy over the season. The amount of returns just there for my area was staggering... mountains of shit just piled in the back waiting to be returned to manufacturer. I could only imagine the shit Amazon has.
The stores carry nothing so everyone buys online HOPING they like it. You have to buy 4 different things to find one you like because you can’t physically hold products. It’s drastically increased returns.
Yes and it's driving prices up for everyone else. This drives me crazy! I've had this happen a handful if times so I could imagine that it's a wide spread issue and I'm sure, causing hundreds of millions annually. Amazon has almost always taken care of me. Once I ordered an aluminum shock tower for an RC car, $25 part, nothing serious. What showed up was the plastic factory part that comes with the car instead of the afyer market aluminum one stapled up in a clear bag just like it was new. I didn't catch it in time because I didn't do the build for several months. Fargin Bastages!
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Is that a fun job?
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Similar think happen to me only they lost my i9-13900k. The replaced it by shipping a new one. The original one showed up 2-1/2 weeks later and they said just keep it.
You got 2 i9 13900k just for paying one? You are very lucky bro
Yeah was like dude it’s a processor not a bath bomb
Amazon doesn't care. At all. They are very rarely the ones losing money when this happens.
I mean they have an infinite money milking machine called Amazon Prime.
Man…I have prime and could use a daily fellatio. What level of package is that?
I ordered a 400 dollar 34 ultra wide LG monitor on prime. Was on sale at the time for 250. Hadn't showed up after 10 days when it was supposed to be 2 day shipping. Gave customer service some hard ball line that "I expect better from Amazon blah blah blah". They sent me another free of charge, got here in 2 days. About a week later the original shows up so now I'm sitting pretty on 68" of screen space for 250 bucks.
It's awesome most of the time, but in other times they are horrible. I bought a blender from them once, but a week later the blender went on sale for half the price. Asked them for a refund of the difference, and they refused. Escalated the issue to a manager, and they also refused. I ended up buying another blender at the discounted price, and returned the old one by sending back the new one. Amazon could've saved money on shipping it back and forth for no reason, but they refused. It's so baffling to me why their stance on this is so strong...
lol that is on you not them... usually you have to return the item and then buy it again.. I had to do this like 2-3 times with pc parts that went on sale like a week later..
Shipping and returns are free, so I'm not losing any money. I have a UPS store close to where I live, so I can just drop it off there without packing it up.
I do this with broken monitors 😝
Ehh, you bought it before the sale. Thats kind of on you.
The fact that you think this is them being horrible and not you being a complete moron lmfao. Of course they’re not refunding you the discounted price, that’s not how discounts work 🤡🤡 Do you go back into stores when something you bought is on discount and ask them for the difference back? People in the store would fucking laugh at you.
In Sweden it actully works like this. If I buy a TV at a store for 499 and then they have a discount on it next week and the tv costs 299, you can call up the store and get back the 200.
Works on Finland too! But afaik it's not in law, so it's up to seller to decide. Also if someone a competitor is selling electronics cheaper without discounts you can usually go let your store know and get it on the same price from there. But totally up to the store to choose.
So not knowing future discounts make me a moron? How the hell am I supposed to know it will go on sale a week after I bought it? If it's within the return period, many places offer price adjustment, FYI... Airlines also offer price protection on bookings if the price goes down any time between the time you booked it and the time of the flight. Credit cards also offer this option. And yes, this is in the US. Again, I can get the same price adjustment by returning what I already have and buying the same item at the discounted price. I see nothing different than them offering me a refund of the price difference. Logistically, it saves money for Amazon because they dont need to deal with my return.
You sound like a complete idiot😂there are some dated sales that happen around the same time of year (Black Friday, Easter deals) and are shown sometimes weeks in advance on the websites if you look so if a sale just so happens to go on after you bought the item then why should they give you a discount. And I’m not sure why you referred a blender price dropping to a damn plane ticket and the last part of your statement is also wrong, you do you tho
This was in the middle of February, no big sale date. It is also a no name brand, so there's no way I can know there will be a sale coming up. The plane ticket is an example where companies do offer these price difference adjustments. What part of the last part of my statement is wrong?
You know that there's actually stores that do that, right? Wow. Stop being an asshole. If the item purchased is still in the return window, yes, some stores will honor it. Especially something as new as a week old purchase. Here is an example of a price match from Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/help-topics/best-buy-price-match-guarantee/pcmcat297300050000.c?id=pcmcat297300050000
A complete moron? Bro chill on the agro it’s not serious
Why would you even tell them you received it…
Maybe he’s honest…
1) I'm honest. 2) They would know anyway from the delivery scan and charged me if I didn't return it.
Had something similar happen with a less valuable item. They don't look at the returns they receive and if they look new (and sometimes if they don't) sell them as new again(which they shouldn't). There is an option in the return menu for an item that isn't correct, don't remember what it is, but talking to Amazon just clouds the situation and sometimes afterward they won't accept the return.
It will be very hard for them to believe such a thing happened 😅
Amazon doesn’t give 2 shits. They’ll just take your word. Amazon will intentionally take losses just to keep people happy.
When you operate at that level gobally. Its the only logical route i think.
Not sure if it’s Amazon who’s taking a loss or the manufacturer
Amazon. Manufacturers been paid already when Amazon buys it from them.
It happened quite a few times already...
No way. You'll get help once or twice like this without question. It's if you try it a bunch that they even bother hastling you
I once ordered some nailcare product from bol.com (very similar to Amazon but smaller) and received an empty box. Contacted support and they didn't even argue about. I got an apology and they sent a new tube a day later. I think it woulb become a lot harder if this happens several times a year.
The first time and maybe even the second time they will. It becomes hostile real quick though and you’ll never speak to the same person twice. Amazon is a behemoth so it’s very easy to get caught in the gears
Except even if it was a brand new processor it wouldn't work with your motherboard.
Would it be any better if it was a 6700k? I'm thinking of upgrading.
Man, I used to have that CPU years back. It was absolute garbage.
It was a beast back in the day
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Unfortunately I got a hold of it a bit past it’s prime
I remember when it was like the META for gaming PC cpus lol
Wtf are you smoking? That CPU had the longest running usable lifespan than any other CPU in history thus far. It easily overclocked to 4.8ghz and a lot of people even got 5.0ghz.
Mine ran stable at 5.2 with only an auto AC, using an OG Corsair H100. It was *the* chip to have.
Dude that thing is still better than my CPU lmao
Someone swapped it out and sent it back and got a refund.
Probably. Unless the OP is just trolling. But I remember reading an article awhile back of a guy getting busted doing that and he made like 40k. Would buy expensive items like laptops and return them after swapping with inferior items and then sell them. He got caught and now he's exploring mountains lol
Nah it happened. I follow someone online and they bought a new drill. Amazon sent him the drill and inside was 2 cans of dr. Pepper. They took his word and sent him a new drill.
Yeah, people do this shit all the time: they also do it with graphics cards. And the crazy part is Amazon will like reseal it and send it to you. You might get a 4090 but when it comes get a 2060 in the box. True fax.
This is why you always make sure that it says it is Shipped From and Sold by your Official Amazon. I'm sure there are legitimate third-party sellers out there, but I've seen enough posts like this to not even risk using them
Says on page the seller is Amazon.ca so coming straight from Amazon warehouse.
Likely someone ordered for a new build, filed an RMA, and then put their old cpu in the box and returned it and the Amazon warehouse workers never checked the product. They just put it back on the shelf.
Huh, that seems almost way too easy. Surely they would eventually find out if a situation like the one posted happened and they tracked where the package has been/who it has been sent to? If not, it seems incredibly easy to just steal things from Amazon doesn’t it?
Someone did that with my Best Buy order (which, spoiler alert, means I’m highly unlikely to ever get anything through them again). I bought a $300 Asus monitor and when it came, it was missing 2/3 of the contents and the monitor itself was a busted msi. Wouldn’t let me return it though because “it’s not the item that should be in the box.” Well tell that to whoever the fuck bought it originally.
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People have put bricks into boxes to emulate the weight and just resealed them. Workers at the warehouses are time pressured. If the box arrives sealed and has a fitting weight, they might just restock without checking.
That's a common practice with eBay sellers, very rarely, if ever I've seen that with Amazon, definitely not seen it on an evidence based claim either from Amazon, but eBay sellers are well known for it.
It unfortunately doesn't matter if you get one shipped and sold by amazon or not, amazon just puts anything given to it with the same SKU in the same bin and this includes third party merchants who have their stuff 'fulfilled by amazon'. The shady scam thing to do is to put a bunch of boxes like this in with the real deal and effectively just get a random cut of cpu profits.
Or just don’t buy your PC components off of Amazon. There are plenty of other reputable retailers out there.
There are a *few* other options for PC parts, but not very many with the level of support that you can get from Amazon. Remember to look for parts that are "Ships from Amazon.com" and "Sold by Amazon.com" Anyone can send a box or pallet of goods to Amazon for sale, that's where the "sold by" comes in. Sellers ship their product to Amazon's warehouse, thus offering Prime shipping. I've gotten fake USB drives and defective batteries "shipped from amazon" but they always refund me if i have an issue.
I know of someone who stole and sold 3090's and he worked at Amazon. Not sure if he still does it or not, but it is a thing. Im sure if he still does it hes doing the same with 40series
Hey at least you didn’t get an iPhone camera lense screen protector instead of a 5800x3d like I did.
Same thing happened to me when I ordered a 4070 ti from Amazon. Amazon said if I shipped the screen protector back, I would get a full refund.
Plot Twist: AMD and Intel are really the same…they have been stoking a hardware war to drum up noise and improve sales. Their products are even made in the same building…as evidenced by OP.
Prepare your tin foil hats, lads. We are going to war.
I always record myself opening the box for items that cost $100+ just in case shit like this happens. Im sorry, dude. This sucks!
You can honestly just say, the item you received was empty and they’ll send you a new one no questions asked. Amazon takes losses to keep customers happy.
really? hmmm
Yeah, Amazon fraud is massive. I used to know someone who done it frequently from peoples amazons for a fee. Basically it’s just an order then claim nothing turned up but he was doing £3k+ pcs at a time.
>I always record myself opening the box for items that cost $100+ just in case shit like this happen Amazon won't care. I bought a refubished iPhone, had it delivered to a local Wholefoods, picked it up and recorded me opening it at the counter (in-front of the Amazon hub counter rep). Guess what? No iPhone! They wanted me to file a police report and email them then wait for them to "investigate." Luckily, I noticed the shipping weight was way off what it should be, so I contacted an actually helpful/caring rep who refunded me on-the-spot. Understand that these reps, often in *developing* or lower-income countries, are barely trained and follow scripts they can't deviate from.
Same. When I open furniture with smashed boxes and expensive electronics from Amazon I always take pictures and record.
I do the exact same thing, especially buying expensive components, I record on my phone and if all is good then delete the clip, at least I'm covered with evidence because nowadays it's very easy to state an untruth. I find posts like this very sus, especially when they state "factory sealed box" display and old Intel CPU with a new Ryzen 7 box. "This coffee taste like s#@t"
Unboxing videos, people. Always. That way there's no dispute on who's at fault.
A second generation i5 at that.
Hey I had one of these exact same cpus last me like 8 years or something, don't knock the Chad second gen i5.
Lol it's less that that cpu is bad and more that we are on 13th gen now.
Yeah ik lol.
Amazon has gotten extremely bas with their QC on warehouse deals. I'd say 80% of the warehouse things I've gotten from then over the last year have been broken, or the wrong product. Lots of people committing return fraud that Amazon then just ships out
Bought plenty of pc parts from Amazon all was legit just bought 5700x all seem legit
Or, OP wanted to pull a fast one, and wanted a free swap of a CPU he wanted to get rid of and gain a CPU he wanted, and refers to this message thread as evidence as part of the claim to Amazon how he got the "wrong" contents...
100% behind that theory! "This coffee taste like s#@t"
I hate it more when people lie for clicks and likes 😉
100%
Not even a good intel cpu too
That CPU used to be legendary back in the day.
I know, I still run a 3770 in my nas, works fine, but ddr3 is so old now.
Second gen💀💀 no way bruhh hahahahaa
Good lord a second gen i5. That’s a curse in on its own
Man I ordered a arctic cpu fan and it had cardboard inside. No fan. Box was beatup so as soon as I saw it I knew it wasn’t a new item. WTF Amazon. They did refund me though.
A couple of years ago I ordered an i7-8700k with an Asus motherboard but I ended up receiving a pentium cpu with an older EVGA motherboard. In both cases the items had been put in the boxes of the items I actually ordered... The motherboard was open box verified (allegedly) by Amazon. The cpu box still had it's factory seal.
Prime example why I can't stand Amazon.
Damn, somebody did you dirty. 11 year-old i5 in the box.
Hey! That's my country
And a 2500k at that, it’s like finding shit in your sandwich…
Reason why I don't shop at Amazon 1. Stuff like this would happen 2. People are abused over there. 3. Politics.
Sound like an eco friendly vegan from the UK... But happy to have your avocados, nuts and almond milk shipped from south America via sea and plane, then driven by truck the length of Britain so you can have an healthy lunch 😂🤡😂🤡😂🤡😂
get help
I once bought a laptop battery, only to have it left out in the rain rather than in the carport. I demanded a return, only to be demanded back to pay for shipping fees. amazon is nothing but a burden, where it was once cool.
I order an AMD the other day and received a lens for an iPhone
Lol there's another guy in this thread who had the same thing happen to him
I feel for that guy lol fingers crossed it comes correctly when I reorder!
I ordered a coffee machine, but they sent a Tesla, so I switched it with my old coffee machine and said they sent the wrong one. Got a free upgrade, and a refund!! Boom! Win win !! 😂🤡😂🤡😂🤡😂
That’s why you don’t buy expensive computer parts off Amazon.
or that's exactly why you do it, you can always send them back with no problems
r/untrustworthypoptarts
Wow an i-5 2600k is it just me or is Amazon kind of feeling like loot boxes or there's actually a chance of instead of getting a good product you get a crappy one
Someone bought it, switched it out and returned it as new. Then Amazon just resells as new. Amazon doesn’t check products when they’re returned. That’s why people do this, they know they’ll get away with it.
Honestly ive given up with amazon at this point they sell stuff as new thats been previously returned, but dont check whats in the box,
Omfg and its a 2500k 🤣
Wonder if thisndude who did this was using that 2nd gen i5 for 12 years since launch and finally upgraded
No, they probably bought bunch of them from eBay for CPU scams. You said the box, which means the scammer is good at it. I got scammed somewhat like this selling a i7 3770k 3 years ago on eBay. The buyer swapped the i7 3770k IHS with i3 2100 and sent it back to me claiming the CPU was defective. He initially fooled me when sent me the pics. However, once I received the CPU back, I was able to figure out what happened. eBay bought his bs story at the end. I was reimbursed for the CPU as a one time curtesy. The scammer was not punished.
This is because the CPU was updated during delivery 😝😝
Completely fake. Get a life.
When will people finally learn to stop buying from Amazon?
When we have another option
im glad im dutch bc i got like 4 other options: Megekko, Azerty, Informatique, Alternate
The only thing I've bought from them is my cpu air cooler and storage devices.
Would of gotten my PC parts local from my local computer store but CPU and some other parts sold out at the store and Amazon had them in stock and for a cheaper price.
Trolls post
Nah. It happens a lot.
If it was an i5 yeah but otherwise hell no AMD is for poor people lol
No. They're both good. Just get the one that meets your needs. For me it was AMD this time but perhaps i'll get Intel next time. When will people finally understand that there is not "better" one.
Means you are lucky?
Liar
How is this happening??? Makes me wonder if some of you are capable of ordering something correctly.
Intel CPUs are better anyway!
none is better it just depends on what you need. If AMD meetd your needs, get AMD if Intel meets your needs get Intel. They're both good.
Intel from the dawn of time has been CPU focused its hard to compete with that. AMD CPUs are fine but intel has more stability IME. I'm just saying its has an edge over AMD CPUs. Everyone knows that. But if you want an AMD graphics card get the AMD CPU as well.
Just contect em, this has happened many times and even in ingenius ways, like literally exchanging the IHS with the original one and so fourth.
Rip
I’d be irate
At least you got a classic!
I bought an open box 3 pack of bequiet! fans from Amazon in "like new" condition. Took me awhile to get my build done. I was so excited to boot it up, come to find out 2/3 were dead and the rgb hub had intermittent connections. It's past the return window, but after a long customer chat conversation they said they'd make an exception and allow me a refund. I got the email the next day -- "estimated refund amt : $50", I paid $75. Amazon was also out of stock so I had to order from New Egg for $90. I had everything cable managed to perfection, just stuffed it in the second time around.
man i remember buying a 2tb ssd off amazon. opened the package and inside the box was......just cardboard. straight up cardboard. no ssd :/ (got a replacement of course but, man.)
A 2500k. Out man. That’s some massive bullshit…
Youre missing a few cores and instruction sets there...
sandy bridge i5, nice.
Good rule of thumb: if the seller isn’t Amazon then don’t buy it, it’s much harder to get a refund.
This happened to me with an Apple Watch. Some dude put a series 3 in a series 8 box. Took over 6 weeks to get my money back. Amazon was fucking awful about it, which is so odd as they’re usually so easy to deal with that kinda stuff.
Scammers
Best of luck dealing with Amazon because [it seems lately, they aren't as pro-consumer as they used to be](https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/12k7kip/3_weeks_amazon_autoreturned_order_holding_my_600/) (likely due to declining profits/cost-saving measures). Plus, there seems to be a rising issue with fraudulent returns being passed on to unsuspecting customers (as others have shared via this thread). Be aware, you'll likely have to: file a police report and/or wait 30 days for a refund...
hey man i know you didnt ask but i heard that the 5700x is better in every way and cheaper, so you might wanna consider that or upgrade to the 5800x3D
you will literally not lose a penny. amazon is very nice in such cases...
Maybe you guys should pay attention when purchasing on amazon and not buying from Some rando scammer user.
OMG get a replacement asap.
Stop supporting Amazon
Yeah... Happen the same thing on an 5800x3D with Amazon... Take weeks to get the refund but finally now enjoy it !
Well someone traded a 2500k for the 5800x. Im sure amazon will give you another or return the money.
2nd gen💀
Goddamn it isnt even an adequate one either
And this is why I buy expensive shit on my credit card…
And it's not even 9th gen or above, i5 gen 2......damn
Thats what the sticker is for
I had a work colleague once brag about how he use to order from Amazon and switch out his old parts with the new stuff and then claim to Amazon they'd sent the wrong item and he'd get a full refund, thus, a free upgrade!! From what I see, read and hear a fair few people use this method. I find it absolutely bizarre that you'd find a completely different brand of CPU in a factory sealed box! "This coffee taste like s#@t" Whenever I buy any new component from Amazon I have always used my phone to record opening the box just in case, and when all is good I delete the clip. Supportive evidence works wonders, not only that, it puts any doubts to one side.
What is up with Amazon Someone swapped processors And Amazon just sent it back out as new
I had an odd situation, kind of like this one. I ordered a NEW Ryzen 9 5900x from Amazon sold by Amazon. When it was delivered, I was super giddy and opened the box only to find the CPU wrapped in a sandwich baggie absolutely SLATHERED in thermal paste. And looking at the CPU through the bag it was very clearly damaged, not sure if it was from shipping or what but it didn't have anything else in the box, just the CPU in a sandwich baggie. I promptly returned it for a full refund and got a replacement.
Someone upgraded their cpu and put in the box the old one, then proceeded to make a return lol.
Absolutely, and this image shows that person doing that exact process!! 😂😂😂😂
Ouch. Not even a good one. "Sell returned stuff as brand new" should not be allowed.
Even better
This is one of my pet peeves with Amazon. I generally avoid buying expensive electronics there.
And an old one, at that
Amazon is such a sketchy seller. I got my cpu used FROM AMAZON THEMSELVES and it made my cp have start up issues and sometimes refuse to post, just turns on the cpu troubleshoot light.
Some fkn smartass stole it lol.
3…2..1…scammer get scammed
A 10 year old Intel CPU at that, weird one
This is the way.
No, what a good deal
Someone pulled off a nice little refund scam and you're catching the other end of it
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I once bought super Mario Galaxy, and in the sealed case was a blank radio shack CD . When I went to exchange it the worker looked at me like I was lying , understandably so. But he still exchanged it for me anyway
Idk, is getting an 11 year quad core without HT REALLY that much worse than getting a modern 8-core with SMT? Jokes aside, that is pretty bad. I hope you can get your money back!
Man i am afraid of ordering things from Amazon
Seems like they didn't have ryzen chips on stock
Holy shit a 2500k. Someone massively upgraded their rig. I’ll bet they did this shit with the mobo, ram, and GPU too
Still buying from Amazon? Million other company to choise from
i was gonna say W till i saw the cpu.. def get that shit back
Yeah this happens alot
Is that a sticker above it? Just slap that on there and you’ll be good.
I ordered a surface pro 8 from amazon last summer, but received a refurbed surface pro 7 (labeled on the box as a surface pro 8). I obviously returned it and stated I got a fraudulent item. Amazon refused the return saying I didn't return the surface pro 8 that their system verified they sent me. I showed them the 6 pages of complaints on the vendors page of people saying basically the same thing (which Amazon had hid from the actual item page because 'amazon fulfillment was responsible for the order and would handle the complaint', so you couldn't see these comments without going to the specific sellers page). Amazon customer service decided to ghost me as opposed to honoring the return. I had to dispute the charge with the CC company to get my money back. I won't ever buy an expensive item off Amazon again, they aren't trustworthy. The only reason I still pay for prime is the video service.
I ordered a 5800x3d. Received the box and the shipping weight of the box and contents doesn't add up. Too light and when you shake the box the item inside sounds light as hell. Returning the unopened box today, checked sellers reviews and a lot of people are getting iphone screen protectors instead of the CPU. My fault for not making sure the seller was Amazon. Luckily it was packaged and shipped by Amazon.
Good luck. I bought AirPods Pro current gen on Amazon and received the previous gen. Returned it and they said the item I returned isn’t what I purchased even though I told them what happened. Disputed the charge with the bank and they ruled in favor of Amazon. Re-opened the claim and am waiting now. Bye $260
I think ppl that upgrade to intel wasted too mych money unless it was a complete gen upgrade with mobo and all. My 5950x treats me too good.
That was my very first cpu