Was this GTX 1080 i bought resealed?

[Joe_182]

Hey Guys,

SO i bought a GTX 1080 that was listed as NEW and sealed off Ebay. I received it today and it is sealed in plastic. But i noticed one of the tape seals on the box itself looks like it was opened. The other looks completely sealed, but this one is half pulling off?

I opened it to see if i could see if anything else was out of order, and everything seems to be there, and when i go to try and reseal it the plastic won't stick at all. Am i just being paranoid here? The seal that was half pulling up had me concerned.

Thanks!

 

[gasaraki]

Could be. How much you bought it for?

 

[Joe_182]

Could be. How much you bought it for?

It was listed for $710 shipped, but with my ebay coupon i got it for $600.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-1080-SC-GAMING-08G-P4-6183-KR-8GB-GDDR5X-ACX-3-0-MINER-MINING/123039765766?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

 

[pete_101]

Does the card look like it's ever been inserted into a PCIe slot, are there any scratch makes on the contacts?

 

[getochkn]

Ya usually those little lines in the plastic appear once it's been opened. Security feature. But if only one side was open, it could have just been someone partially pealed it away but never opened the box as it may be hard to get a card out and back in with only one side open and not damage the other sticker in any way.

 

[Joe_182]

Here are the pins. I honestly can't tell, but to me i see scratches. Small ones. But not sure if it would come from the factory this way.

 

[James Mason]

doesn't look like it was opened to me, looks like there may have been dust or it was sealed super the best though.
The lines appear to be design on the box. It'd be way more obvious if it had be opened, the tape would be cut or the box would have slightly damage cause the tape pulled off some of the outer layer.

 

[Eximo]

Have you run it at all? At the factory they will have plugged it into a test board, but that looks like more than one insertions worth of wear.

Honestly as long as it works I wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

[norcalsc]

looks like orig sticker

 

[pete_101]

Those contact pins look like they've been inserted into some kind of slot, but they haven't been put all the way in. It's possible this is factory testing, I just don't know.

 

[10tacle]

How was the packaging on the inside of the box? It's pretty obvious how the factory wraps and seals the video card with protective wrap as well as how the extras are placed in the box's nooks and crannies. It all should be neat and organized when opening up and there should be no bubbles in the protective plastic wrap that protects the GPU.

 

[Joe_182]

I won't get a chance to run until the rest of my rig comes in tomorrow. It was packaged pretty normal from what i can tell. And the plastic wrap looked legit and not janky. It was just that half seal that had me concerned. But there is no super glue or other glue that was used to reseal that tape seal on the box. I am just trying to understand how the seal got half opened like that. And it opened very easily, but that could be because the seal was already half open.

The seller doesn't usually sell PC parts, but in the last few months that have had a bunch of NEW GPU's come through their hands. Maybe trying to flip them for money? No idea.

 

[10tacle]

Well if it still had/has that new smell of plastics and rubber, I would not worry about it if the internal packaging shows no signs of being repacked. I've bought enough hardware over the years to tell. Fry's Electronics once sold me a returned monitor as new. When I got it home it was obvious it was taken out and installed. You can never replicate internal packaging from the factory. To say I was pissed was an understatement, but they admitted the error stating a returns department employee forgot to put a "Returned" sticker on the box and it got mixed up in the warehouse storage with new ones. After raising Cain I got a $25 gift card out of it - not bad but I did pay about half of that on gas from two round trips. You have protection under eBay being sold something as "new and sealed" when it was opened so keep that in mind (and I've used it as well).

 

[Joe_182]

It definitely smells new and the GPU looks very clean. The manual is bent, but i imagine that could happen from being crushed in the box. I am not sure what to do, since it is such a pricey GPU i would hate to have gotten a GPU that was abused from Mining. I can do an ebay claim but they take forever and are a pain in the ass if the seller doesn't comply.

 

[10tacle]

If it smells new, then it was not used (for more than a few hours anyway). Also if it looks clean and no dust, I think you are good to go. But if it bothers you, and that manual is suspect, I'd return it. You have enough evidence that the seal was broken and that is not what the product was advertised as. If you got a good deal on it I'd not worry about it, but if there are other new cards like from NewEgg or Amazon priced the same, I'd reconsider things and buy from a trusted seller. Just remember that you do have eBay protection and you were NOT sold what was promised.

Afterthought: miners are not selling cards. They are buying them.

 

[toshibitsu]

That's just the adhesive loosening up. It can happen depending on the age(when it was actually boxed originally), where the box was stored(temperature of the room, moisture in the air), if anything was placed on top of it, etc...

If someone had used it before & attempted to "re-seal"(to sell as "new")... that would require using a heatgun to carefully lift off the sticker. If done incorrectly, it could damage both the sticker and the box. I highly doubt someone went through that kind of trouble.

 

[Joe_182]

If it smells new, then it was not used (for more than a few hours anyway). Also if it looks clean and no dust, I think you are good to go. But if it bothers you, and that manual is suspect, I'd return it. You have enough evidence that the seal was broken and that is not what the product was advertised as. If you got a good deal on it I'd not worry about it, but if there are other new cards like from NewEgg or Amazon priced the same, I'd reconsider things and buy from a trusted seller. Just remember that you do have eBay protection and you were NOT sold what was promised.

Afterthought: miners are not selling cards. They are buying them.

Well i managed to live chat with EVGA and it turns out they could tell when the item was shipped by the serial number. It was shipped 2/12/18, so there is no way it was used. Well doubtfully. And i showed them the sticker seal and they said it likely got loose in shipping but doesn't look tampered with to them.

Either way it has a 3 year warranty from 2/12.

Thanks guys for the help, i appreciate it. And yeah i should have known miners wouldn't be selling GPU's!