Players are currently discussing an offer from a user on Reddit. He sells a gaming PC that he describes as “high-end”. But many find the price completely excessive.
What kind of gaming PC is it? The user sells a gaming PC with the following specifications via the Facebook Marketplace:
There is currently no further information, for example about installed SSDs, hard drives or the mainboard. What seems much stranger, however, is the seller’s comment that he was already offering the PC far too cheaply.
What does the seller himself say about this? He describes the computer itself as a “high-end gaming PC” and also writes in his sales text:
Gaming PCs with similar specifications cost upwards of 2,000 – 2,500 British pounds (approx. 2,300 to 2,800 euros). I’m open to suggestions.
It seems as if the offer for “only” 1,700 euros is already really good. And unfortunately that is not the case.
Community warns against people who want to take advantage of people’s ignorance to make money
On Reddit, many people from the community are surprised by the offer. Many warn against this and similar offers and explain that they are far too expensive for the price. Someone explains that they received a gaming PC with an i7 13700KF and RTX 4080 for 1,500 euros. And this is state-of-the-art hardware.
If you compare the prices yourself, you can quickly see that for 1,500 euros you can get a gaming PC with a Ryzen 5 5600X in combination with an RX 6700 XT or an RTX 4060Ti from various providers, and some even have an RTX 4070 included.
Yes, modern high-end PCs can cost 2,500 euros, but the hardware is state-of-the-art and there is no 7-year-old Intel processor installed.
What should you do with such offers? The basic rule for such offers is always: seek help and support if you have no idea about the hardware being sold. You don’t have to be embarrassed if strange abbreviations or terms for processors, graphics cards or other components mean nothing to you.
Because every year new products come out from a number of manufacturers and that can quickly seem confusing. Especially because manufacturers change names and terms for certain products every few years. For example at Intel, where the names will change from the next generation (via gamestar.de).
If you are unsure about an interesting offer, ask friends, acquaintances or experts.
What is a special problem? Many people are easily distracted from the actual product by lots of cool terms. Everything is “super fast” or “high-end” and in the end only the seller benefits from it.
Especially if the seller points out that the offer is said to be extremely tight, that it is offered far too cheap anyway and that someone else can buy the offer at any time. Sellers use tricks like this to try to persuade customers to buy, and in some cases people end up buying “stuff” that they don’t even want or things that are way too expensive. Idealo or miser are often enough to quickly control the prices of hardware.
A recent example from a family man shows how annoying it can be when you only get old hardware for a lot of money. He had bought a gaming PC for his son, but the hardware is far too old:
Father buys his son a new gaming PC for 1,200 euros, but doesn’t realize that the hardware installed is over 10 years old