Cpu scam? way too cheap to be legit

[DeityDeity]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-8M-Skylake-Quad-Core-4-0-GHz-BX80662I76700K-Processor-NEW-/232190374087?hash=item360f9ff0c7:g:vlAAAOSwt5hYZeNo#rwid £31 for an i7 6700k new... it cant be legit right?

 

[Shaun o]

Personalty I cannot see it myself.

It more than likely if you click the buy now button the real price is shown on what to pay Deity.
The other starting price of £31 is a Ono starting point.

Where if you bid say £100 it is up to the seller to accept the price you are bidding.

If not then the saying is always true to bear in mind "If it looks too good to believe it usually is" Dodgy !

 

[DeityDeity]

Personalty I cannot see it myself.

It more than likely if you click the buy now button the real price is shown on what to pay Deity.
The other starting price of £31 is a Ono starting point.

Where if you bid say £100 it is up to the seller to accept the price you are bidding.

If not then the saying is always true to bear in mind "If it looks too good to believe it usually is" Dodgy !

Nope, its a "Buy it now" already sold a bunch, i wouldn't trust it myself either haha seems really dodgy but i'd be amazed if its legit

 

[Gam3r01]

I wouldnt purchase any sort of new hardware on ebay from someone with only 140 reviews.

 

[atomicWAR]

Yeah I find that one tough to swallow. If the CPU is a actual CPU I figure its one of these three scenarios,

1. It's defective/broken
2. It's stolen/and or counterfeit
3. It's been miss labeled in price/ model/ refurbed/ used/ etc.

For how cheap it is part of me says go for it if for no other reason to expose it to ebay. If you do get some BS its still less then 40 bucks with free shipping and if you use something like paypal your covered from fraud to some degree...Best case scenario it is what it says (likely fell of the back of a truck wink wink). IDK only you can decide if it is worth it.

note: i do not encourage buying stolen goods, I am only speculating on possible reasons for being cheap. 140 reviews since 2004 seems a bit off.

 

[atomicWAR]

took a look at his reviews. I did notice this seller had never sold anything like bulk box CPUs before. In itself odd. Also odd not one bad or even neutral review. Either its the deal of the century from a really great Ebayer, dudes a total fraud, or his account has been hacked and someone else is looking to make a cheap buck possibly (likely) at the buyers expense.

 

[Solandri]

Anyone remember the fake CPUs from Newegg?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmEgSg9m89U

Yeah I find that one tough to swallow. If the CPU is a actual CPU I figure its one of these three scenarios,

1. It's defective/broken
2. It's stolen/and or counterfeit
3. It's been miss labeled in price/ model/ refurbed/ used/ etc.

Another possibility is that it's an engineering sample. Those are early versions of the CPU sent to manufacturers so they can test motherboard designs and stuff. They're not supposed to be re-sold, but occasionally they do find their way to eBay. They may or may not work. The biggest risk is that early CPUs usually have a few bugs in them (hardware bugs). Production CPUs have hardware bugs "patched" by workarounds in firmware (for motherboards) and software (for OSes). But a bug in an engineering sample may not be fixed.