a 2700X for $63, does this listing looks legit to you ?

[Noktice]

obviously it looks very scammy, but i'd like to know if it is a usual thing on eBay.

link : https://www.ebay.com/itm/264278187899?ViewItem=&item=264278187899

[dizmo]

Not legit at all.

First off, how would someone offer that CPU for that price, with free shipping, and profit?

Secondly, all of his feedback is in GBP, yet the auction says it's in the US. Pretty obvious red flag.

[Sychic]

Especially since all of his reviews are for dresses and a car

[ELSknutson]

It doesn't matter if its legit Its covered under ebays buyer protection and  If you dont get what is listed you get your money back no questions asked. Plus if the buyer wants the stuff back they have to pay for shipping.  Also it more then likely stolen goods. 

[dizmo]

2 minutes ago, ELSknutson said:

It doesn't matter if its legit Its covered under ebays buyer protection and  If you dont get what is listed you get your money back no questions asked. Plus if the buyer wants the stuff back they have to pay for shipping.  Also it more then likely stolen goods. 

Stupidest. Possible. Answer.

Yeah, let's just continue the cycle, because why would we want to discourage such action in the future? Anyone who adopts that mindset IMO deserves to lose their money.

[Dedayog]

1 minute ago, ELSknutson said:

It doesn't matter if its legit Its covered under ebays buyer protection and  If you dont get what is listed you get your money back no questions asked. Plus if the buyer wants the stuff back they have to pay for shipping.  Also it more then likely stolen goods. 

It being legit matters a lot.

Why would you buy it knowing it's not legit, and bank on getting money back later?    Just a waste of time and energy.

 

[ELSknutson]

Just now, jstudrawa said:

It being legit matters a lot.

Why would you buy it knowing it's not legit, and bank on getting money back later?    Just a waste of time and energy.

 

If its not legit you get your money back  no questions asked. eBay will pull it straight from there account  and at most it takes a day or 2 to get your money back. Also the seller has sold thousands of listing and has a 100% rating and for that price its worth the risk of have the money tied up for a few days. 

[ELSknutson]

Both of my coworkers just bought one. 

[Noktice]

thanks for the responses.

another question, will i still be covered by the eBay Money Back Guarantee if i use a parcel forwarding knowing that i will be able to return the item in time?  ( not buying this cpu btw)

[Bitcolbyin]

3 minutes ago, ELSknutson said:

Both of my coworkers just bought one. 

update!!

[Dedayog]

3 minutes ago, ELSknutson said:

Both of my coworkers just bought one. 

So then let us know exactly what they receive?

 

Time for opening, testing and returning... when it's a fake.  Interesting view on the value of your time.

 

Or are you betting the long shot that maybe it's real?  That 0.0001% possibility?  Playing the lottery basically?

 

Btw, did you look thru the feedback?  It's all about them buying things not selling CPUs.

 

I'm really just boggled by the mindset of knowingly buying fake things and knowing you'll have to return them.  Your brain is kind of fascinating.

[Noktice]

4 minutes ago, ELSknutson said:

Both of my coworkers just bought one. 

keep us updated plz

[ELSknutson]

Just now, jstudrawa said:

So then let us know exactly what they receive?

 

Time for opening, testing and returning... when it's a fake.  Interesting view on the value of your time.

 

Or are you betting the long shot that maybe it's real?  That 0.0001% possibility?  Playing the lottery basically?

 

 

I mean worse come to worse it will be tieing up $63.00 measly dollars for a couple weeks. 

[Dedayog]

Just now, ELSknutson said:

I mean worse come to worse it will be tieing up $63.00 measly dollars for a couple weeks. 

No!  It's not on the off chance, or worse comes to worst, or damn I got tricked...

 

You KNOW it's fake.  Yet you're still doing it "just to see".  THAT is insane to me!

 

You have to tell us what they get, cuz this is interesting.

[Princess Luna]

It's fake and whoever buys it knowing its fake just to get the refund from ebay is doing something bad and perpetuating these little scams.

[ELSknutson]

3 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

No!  It's not on the off chance, or worse comes to worst, or damn I got tricked...

 

You KNOW it's fake.  Yet you're still doing it "just to see".  THAT is insane to me!

 

You have to tell us what they get, cuz this is interesting.

I guess we will see.  BTW all my Co workers all buying them lol , ( Besides me lol I dont need a CPU and it would be a pain to switch for me) 

[ELSknutson]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

It's fake and whoever buys it knowing its fake just to get the refund from ebay is doing something bad and perpetuating these little scams.

The seller has nothing to gain if its fake unless they take the money and run. And if thats the case then Paypal/eBay are the ones that are out the money. Not the buyer 

[lmeneses]

5 minutes ago, ELSknutson said:

The seller has nothing to gain if its fake unless they take the money and run. And if thats the case then Paypal/eBay are the ones that are out the money. Not the buyer 

Yea, force Paypal and eBay to fix your mistake and help continue support the scammer. Great idea! 

[GabeThePCHelper]

48 minutes ago, Noktice said:

obviously it looks very scammy, but i'd like to know if it is a usual thing on eBay.

link : https://www.ebay.com/itm/264278187899?ViewItem=&item=264278187899

Nope, 2700x's run for at least 200 - 300, and with all of the other red flags.

[.Apex.]

2 minutes ago, lmeneses said:

Yea, force Paypal and eBay to fix your mistake and help continue support the scammer. Great idea! 

To be honest it's eBay's mistake though for having such a horrible system to check if the seller is legit or not, in fact there's even no system for that, it just counts all the items the seller have sold as a whole, and the god damn reviews are from different sellers, terrible..

[ELSknutson]

1 minute ago, lmeneses said:

Yea, force Paypal and eBay to fix your mistake and help continue support the scammer. Great idea! 

How would it be my mistake. Its there platform and if anything buying the product and it possibly being a scam helps eBay by shutting down the scammer and addressing there flaws with there system. Doing nothing and allowing the unknowing to buy the items is more harmful in my opinion. 

[ELSknutson]

7 minutes ago, Sushimus said:

A new-er trend of scamming involves them doing something along the lines of quickly closing their paypal shortly after they make x profit from the scam, this prevents paypal from being able to rip the money back to refund you. I had a similar issue happen to me on a $30 WD Hard drive, after purchase they did this and I was just out $30

Edit: I'd ask for a refund immediately if I were you, unless you've got so much you can blow that without a care in the world

I didnt buy it and also the person selling the items has sold thousands of items in the past including cheap CPU's  and its only $63.00 I mean if the absolute worst case is that you lose $63.00 its not the end of the world. 

[ELSknutson]

UPDATE !!!  eBay Canceled the transactions.  The message from eBay said that the seller account had been hacked.  And they closed the listing and refunded the money LOL!! 

[Esus]

Probably be more plausible if it was 100-150 USD.