A Youtuber orders a popular processor on Amazon in Germany, but in the end it gets a much cheaper and false CPU. Particularly annoying: he had ordered directly from Amazon and not through a third party.
The YouTube channel Hardwarebuster needed a new processor for its test system. He ordered it on the German Amazon page. The costs were 478.20 euros. But when he opened the package, he found that he had received a brazen fake.
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Youtuber ordered directly via Amazon and still received a fake
Why is that particularly annoying? The YouTuber explained in his own post on hwbusters.com that he had ordered the processor on Amazon.de newly and unopened and ordered directly via Amazon. As a rule, this is the best prerequisite for getting a real and functioning product. Because here, fraudsters do not have the chance to replace the real goods with a return for false.
Instead of a Ryzen 7 9800x3d, he held an AMD FX-4100 in his hands: the CPU is worth around 9 euros on Ebay and dates from 2011. The YouTuber himself explained that you could see the fake immediately:
I immediately noticed the other heat preter, the pins (!) On the underside and the lettering on the Heatspreader, which reveals from afar that it is a “fake”!
After all, the fake was really bad: if someone had put the fake processor on an AM5 mainboard, then the device could have been destroyed. Because the fake model has a completely different case with pins instead of pads, so that it would not have fit. The YouTuber noticed this in good time.
Incidentally, Amazon has meanwhile arranged the reimbursement for the fake, which means that the YouTuber will get his money back in a few weeks. Another user was not so lucky with Amazon: a family man wanted to buy a GPU and with it a long discussion with Amazon: Gamer buys graphics card on Amazon, gets fake product-retailer refuses to return the “right” article