News Aorus RTX 5090 package from Amazon was allegedly filled with macaroni, rice, and an old obsolete GPU — it's an impasta!

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Tbonius said:
If you're going to buy something like this from Amazon, make sure it's sold and shipped by Amazon. I highly doubt this happened enroute.
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That is why I only buy expensive stuff that is in new condition directly from Amazon. I have yet to have a problem since i've been with them dating back to 2004. However, I have purchased low cost items on occasion from 3rd party sellers but shipped by Amazon.
 
valthuer said:
I hope it's only meant as a preemptive measure and you haven't had any unpleasant experiences so far.
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Unfortunately I've had issues in the past that lead to this behavior. Nothing in the realm of a RTX 5090 but a few hundred dollars... yeah that has been pushed on to me once or twice before I learned my lesson. Now if the price isn't something I can swallow without choking on it should I get stiffed, an opening through unboxing video is made.
 
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Tbonius said:
If you're going to buy something like this from Amazon, make sure it's sold and shipped by Amazon. I highly doubt this happened enroute.
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Sadly you can't trust their Warehouse Deals, they sent me an older version of the cooler that someone had obviously replaced the newer one with when sending it back. Worse, I'm pretty sure they just put it back on sale in the hope that someone will keep it.
 
What's the point of saving a lot of money to buy a GPU that is missing ROPs, has black screen issues and will melt sooner or later? The only way someone would save money to buy a faulty GPU chip ( missing ROPs ) on a firehazard PCB with cables prone to melting and bad drivers is being a fanboy.
 
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Nobody can be trusted these days. Bought a nice gaming minipc from Ali last year, which never arrived.

Courier (FedEx) claimed it had been delivered, but couldn't produce a signature or picture to prove it and the paperwork they provided was riddled with errors.

Reported it to the seller, who claimed I was lying, even after showing them FedEx had no proof of delivery and was lying. Had to escalate to Ali customer protection, who got me a refund within hours.

Seller spent weeks trying to get it overturned, going as far as faking signatures and FedEx paperwork, luckily Ali wasn't having any of it and they got reprimanded for harassing a customer.
 
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This is why it’s a flat out joke that all of our junk comes from this communist backwater like cHiNa

In a normal setting, there would at least be the possibility that angry customers could protest and shut this kind of thing down.

I’m thinking of the trucker who returned a load to the front door of a company that refused to pay, and the loads kept coming back.

Right to their corporate doorstep.

One after another.

You’re going to get on a plane and fly to the Dhangziwahi People’s Special Economic Industrial Center in Gijonwi Province?

What hotel are you going to stay at? Who are you going to talk to? 🤣😂🙄
 
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The best part is the article is trying to make this into a joke. Hahahaha oh well I’ll just return it.

All the carbon emitted flying this package of junk around means we don’t care about the environment THAT much.

Oh well. Scammers gonna scam. Am I right?

I worked with the Chinese for years and you aren’t working with people, you work with the government.

They sold us junk with filthy fingerprints all over the powder coated finish and cried when we refused the order. Kept demanding payment for JUNK.

My opinion is based on my years of working with these clowns.
 
Dgtazzman said:
Nobody can be trusted these days. Bought a nice gaming minipc from Ali last year, which never arrived.

Courier (FedEx) claimed it had been delivered, but couldn't produce a signature or picture to prove it and the paperwork they provided was riddled with errors.

Reported it to the seller, who claimed I was lying, even after showing them FedEx had no proof of delivery and was lying. Had to escalate to Ali customer protection, who got me a refund within hours.

Seller spent weeks trying to get it overturned, going as far as faking signatures and FedEx paperwork, luckily Ali wasn't having any of it and they got reprimanded for harassing a customer.
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That was your first problem. I bought a PC from an American company with American employees because I got raked over the coals by Newegg.
 
atomicWAR said:
Sadly this is why every expensive item I open, gets filmed. CYA because customer support isn't your friend. If they can find a way to make you eat the cost of some else's fraud, you will.
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It's becoming a habit of me to record almost anything I buy online. If it's something valuable (like computer parts), I would even record it from the point of opening the package and installing it. That's like, half an hour of uninterrupted footage, but it's worth it.

Even with video evidences, I've been hosed twice. The first time, the seller accused me of "splicing" and "editing" the video because there was about two seconds in the footage where the product went completely out of the frame. In reality I was struggling with the packing tapes so had to bring the damn thing closer for more leverage but the seller wouldn't listen. Since then, I always have a stopwatch in the background to prove that the video wasn't cut or edited in any way.

Second time the seller denied a refund and claimed that I "used AI to edit the unboxing footage" somehow. While I managed to get my money back both times... still a waste of time and energy.

Even a poor quality footage is better than having to argue with them...
 
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Heat_Fan89 said:
That is why I only buy expensive stuff that is in new condition directly from Amazon. I have yet to have a problem since i've been with them dating back to 2004. However, I have purchased low cost items on occasion from 3rd party sellers but shipped by Amazon.
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Unfortunately, this doesn't always work. There was a huge issue with counterfeit SD cards on Amazon a while back, and what was discovered was that all inventory that's fulfilled by Amazon is treated interchangeably. If a sleezy seller sends counterfeit SD cards to a warehouse, they're credited that number of cards. If you buy from them but you're on the other side of the country, Amazon dispatches that SKU from their own stock but credits it against that seller in the inventory database instead. If you're near the warehouse the scammer shipped to and buy from Amazon (or a different third party), Amazon dispatches the seller's counterfeit card but credits it against their own count.

(Higher cost items probably have less marketplace sellers, less units floating around, and more scrutiny, making them generally safer, but point is that "New condition, sold and shipped by Amazon" has been hit by supply chain fraud)
 
jimday said:
So what was that random gpu card they he received?
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A Reddit sleuth identified it as a KFA RTX 2080 Ti EX.

Ebay says working 2080Tis go for $300+, and I'm kinda curious if it was a dead card they got cheap and used because it looked large and gamer-y to an untrained eye... or if they actually paid the going rate for a working one so that it would light up and display and look kinda alright on the Windows Basic Display Driver to a lazy, untrained, or overworked inspector.

...or maybe this was just what the scammer happened to have in their personal rig? If it was their personal card I wonder whether the warranty registration could help pinch them.
 
DonnyAppleseed said:
That was your first problem. I bought a PC from an American company with American employees because I got raked over the coals by Newegg.
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Believe me, I usually only use Ali for cheap tat, as it is the same as they sell elsewhere, only without the drop shipping markup and I don't mind occassionally losing something that's only worth a few bucks. Unfortunately most of the decent yet affordable minipc's come from China and there is not much choice. You do have Minisforum, but they are also Chinese and the likes of Asus are just a ripoff for what you get.

Anyway, it was a FedEx issue, probably they lost it and decided to fudge the system to prevent a claim, or their courier decided it would make a nice gift for somebody (something FedEx is notorious for in the UK, especially around Christmas, as they use a lot of temp employees).

Can't really fault Ali, they fixed the issue pretty rapidly after I got them involved.
 
Oh that’s where that went … hear me out, so what had happened was … I was building a new PC and planned on making spaghetti bolognese. Right, kids walk in … not my kids, cause I don’t have any but the neighbors kids, I’m like what are you doing? They said they were looking for some Sunny D? I was like Sunny D who the …. drinks Sunny D in 2025? That stuff is poison. Get the … out! Then I think to myself this would be the perfect time for koolaid guy to crash through wall … but does Koolaid even exist anymore … I mean with the push against Sugar products and what not. That cool refreshing drink though … at this point the kids mother is walks in , and that my friend is how I met your mother. Oh yeah what was I saying so I got a couple of alerts about this whole Musk bs Trump, which I swear these guys are in cahoots to con America and this is as they say in the magic industry the misdirection. And so I fell asleep and sleep walked packing up this return. That mother came over again the morning still looking for her kids … so she said , needless to say she distracted me. We never got to that bolognese and now I’m explaining on tomshardware so everyone knows gods honest mistake.
 
Several years ago, I ordered directly from Amazon Canada an expensive compact Sony camera (C$1,837).
Inside the Amazon box, there was a Sony box, but inside it, I found only wooden planks. I disputed this issue with Amazon for many months, but they never refunded me and even indirectly blamed me for staging it.
 
thaddeusk said:
I did the same thing when I got my 5090. I've been lucky to never have had it happen to me, but I'd rather make sure I have proof that I didn't swap it afterwards.
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It’s an embarrassing thing to admit, but it didn’t even cross my mind to film the unboxing of my 5090, when I bought it back in February.

With all the stories surfacing lately, I guess I should try and be more careful in the future.
 
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