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This is why I will NEVER sell anything on eBay. I do local sales only. Anyone who messages from abroad and wants me to ship. You are more than welcome to do that, but payment must be interac e-transfer only, no PayPal or anything else. You will pay ahead of time, when I see the money successfully deposited into my bank account, then I will send you the GPU. This is non-negotiable, and this article is the reason why I do it that way
 
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Stripping the chips off a GPU and then returning it as defective does not surprise me one bit. Ebay is a favored den of scalpers and scammers.

The last time I tried selling something on Ebay it was an AMD GPU. I got all manner of scam messages and shipping address change demands (item not received scams). The last time I tried buying from Ebay items that were supposedly in stock in north America were drop-shipped from China or ordered from a third-party Amazon merchant on my behalf.

Ebay should only be used as an absolute last resort when other options have failed.
 
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ezst036 said:
If I had only one of these to sell, it would be selling with no returns allowed.
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I tried that, eBay allowed the buyer to keep the card for 2 weeks before suddenly claiming it had failed, and when I refused to accept a return citing that the buyer had already admitted in private messages on eBay's own platform that he had received it and been using it successfully UNTIL HE TRIED TO MODIFY THE VOLTAGE AND FRIED IT, they ignored me and gave him a full refund anyways. They had literal proof he lied, explicitly damaged the card himself and ignored it.

Then they told him he didn't need to return the product, and initiated a chargeback on me for $2400.

So literally eBay cheated me and stole my money.
 
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ezst036 said:
If I had only one of these to sell, it would be selling with no returns allowed.
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Be aware that even if a Seller clearly states "no returns" on an auction,
the Buyer simply must say "not as described" and the return process starts anyways.
EBay immediately creates a return shipping label that the Seller is charged for
and if the Seller does not challenge it, then the refund is automatically taken from the Seller's bank or credit card on file.
I am finding this happening more and more often in the past few years, even for non-electronic things like home decorations.
Sellers are low-class citizens who take on all the risk. I agree with @Rando99 as to his unfair experience.
 
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I think it's more likely that the buyer already had a stripped down 4090 falcon Northwest videos have shown one that he was sent to repair that looked fine but when he took it apart all the memory chips and the GPU was removed with the customer reporting they purchased the GPU on Facebook marketplace. So you never know it could be someone who was selling the stripped down boards unable to find a new buyer due to the word getting around. And thought they could pull a fast one on somebody selling a proper one. Is anybody's guess though these days anything can happen.
 
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I think it's more likely that the buyer already had a stripped down 4090 falcon Northwest videos have shown one that he was sent to repair that looked fine but when he took it apart all the memory chips and the GPU was removed with the customer reporting they purchased the GPU on Facebook marketplace. So you never know it could be someone who was selling the stripped down boards unable to find a new buyer due to the word getting around. And thought they could pull a fast one on somebody selling a proper one. Is anybody's guess though these days anything can happen.
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Or the engineer had a card he got for repairs and tried to sell the scraps, took a lot of pictures of another of the same card and tried to sell it, knowing it would be returned and call foul.

Either could be true.
 
I sold something only once on ebay (a RTX 1080). Not a good experience.

I first got several private messages from obvious scammers. Then a legit buyer bought the card, but of course he was not at home when the mail carrier attempted to deliver it so they took it back to the post office. It took almost two weeks for the guy to finally go to pick it up. I sent him several private messages to tell him to go to the post office but he didn't seem to care.

And when I finally got paid, I realized that both ebay and PayPal (I was forced to use PayPal) took their share and I was stripped down of 20% of my sale.
 
I sold my Oculus Rift DK2 on eBay a couple months before the new version came out. Somehow it sold for 20% less than I paid for it new, to a bidder in China. He agreed to pay the extra shipping (it was a lot), and I mailed it. Weeks later it finally got delivered to him, I got paid, and I never heard from him again.
 
Surprised they were even able to contact anyone at eBay. I was recently banned FOR LIFE after buying an office chair from a scam seller. They never shipped the item, I got a refund from eBay and left an honest negative review for the seller. A few weeks later I got an email saying that I was a "risk to the community" and was perma banned. Contacting customer service was futile, eBay doesn't even have a phone number to call it's all chat based. After explaining the situation they came back with a canned response that their decision was final. Honestly I'm glad and think it's pretty funny. They allow scammers and ban normal customers. A great business model that will surely maximize profit.
 
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Stripping the chips off a GPU and then returning it as defective does not surprise me one bit. Ebay is a favored den of scalpers and scammers.

The last time I tried selling something on Ebay it was an AMD GPU. I got all manner of scam messages and shipping address change demands (item not received scams). The last time I tried buying from Ebay items that were supposedly in stock in north America were drop-shipped from China or ordered from a third-party Amazon merchant on my behalf.

Ebay should only be used as an absolute last resort when other options have failed.
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As a buyer in a third-world country, Ebay most often the only resort we have. Scammers have made it so difficult to purchase internationally, most sellers outright cancel the order when they see it's international, even if they apparently ship internationally. The same applies the other way around. It took me 4 tries to buy an Echo Show due to seller scams. Sure Ebay takes your side if the proof is there, but it takes weeks for the process to complete. That said, even with the hassle and shipping that is never under U$80 regardless of item size, it's still less hassle and cheaper to use Ebay
 
So the scammer tried to steal the chip and vram to jury-rig a 4090, but ultimately still got expensed for it, so now he (presumably) has a crudely bootstrapped 4090 for which he likely paid a thousand USD in excess of the MSRP. He could've just had the actual card for what he paid, but no.
 
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