Scammer

It should be well known by now that you should be very careful when buying a Playstation 5 and not blindly trust every offer that appears on Ebay and Co. As a victim of a scam, you are still not to blame for having been betrayed, but you should still take certain precautionary measures.

RTX 3080

But there are other products that are currently offered almost as often by scammers, but for which the problem is nowhere near as well known. In addition to the PS5 and Xbox, buyers of graphics cards have also been falling victim to the scam groups on online marketplaces for some time. AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards are particularly common for cheating.

The hottest model on the market is the RTX 3080. Anyone who currently has a final level with a PC with this graphics card will probably have to wait months. And that’s exactly what a Reddit user has now fallen victim to. He let himself be grabbed by the offer and did not read the description correctly, which meant that he did not notice that he had fallen victim to the oldest scam on Ebay: Instead of a real RTC 3080, he only bought a photo of it. For the equivalent of 670 €. It’s still annoying. We hope he gets his money back.

His whole story

I’ve been looking to get a new PC for a while and have been looking for this one part that is and has been out of stock for the past few months, the graphics card (RTX 3080 for anyone interested). Today, I was looking around on eBay to see scalper prices because I was curious. I managed to find something for just $750 and I thought it was too good to be true.

I checked the description and it said 49kb image in very tiny text and great for gaming right next to that. The thing is, I knew about this scam, and I read the description. I guess there was just too much adrenaline rushing through me thinking that this might be my chance to get the graphics card that I didn’t take the time to process the fact that it said that.

Anyway, I bought it, looked at it again, and my heart dropped. I’ve been trying to get a refund, I’ve filed a dispute with Citi, and am still trying to get my money back. Moral of the story: If it’s too good to be true, it probably is TL;DR: Didn’t properly read the description of an item on eBay and fell for an $800 scam.

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