Just want to put it out there, people should be careful buying PC parts on amazon during the time leading up to Black Friday. In the past three to four days I’ve seen three different types on scams on AMD CPUs and GPUs. Always check to see the seller. See who’s selling and who’s shipping. Check the seller history and make sure the store front wasn’t just created recently. Good Luck finding those DEALS.
There was a fairly widespread one earlier in the year, where people buying CPUs and GPUs from Amazon were given a $1 iphone lens cover instead. I got pinched on it as well - ordered a 7800x3D and got the lens, and it took me almost six weeks to get a refund out of Amazon. The irritating thing is that it wasn’t any sort of crazy deal, it was just MSRP and what was coming up when searching for it on Amazon.
Their seller reviews were absolutely crammed with people talking about the same issue with them, and one enterprising Redditor even managed to deduce from photos of the shipping labels that they were all coming from the same Amazon distribution warehouse in the US. (Their Amazon store is now gone.)
Moral of the story is to ONLY buy bigger ticket items if its shipped from AND sold by Amazon, or if its sold by an “official” brand like AMD etc. And of course, if a deal seems too good to be true - it usually is.
So you bought a product which was full of reviews saying it’s a scam?
Nope, reviews were all fine. Even the seller reviews at the time were fine. It was the seller that Amazon was shoving up when searching for the processor. Two weeks later, yes - the seller was crammed with negative reviews, including mine.
One wonders if a legit seller’s account gets hacked and then the scammers take it over just long enough to make a quick buck
Someone in the warehouse still has to put the lenses in a box though, even though the order says CPU or GPU…