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Bitter
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So I bought a 1TB 970 Evo Plus NVME drive for $129 on eBay, about 4 days later I get an email from Best Buy saying my package had shipped from store 923 (one a few hours from me) and would be arriving via Fed Ex, today my NVME drive shows up from Fed Ex with Best Buy fulfillment Kentucky address on the label, eBay sends an email about item delivered. It's the drive I ordered from eBay from definitely NOT Best Buy. If I go on the Best Buy website the same drive is $149. Package is unopened, drive is the correct drive. What's going on here? Seller has low feedback and is a pretty new account, usually I check that out before buying but with the low price I figured I'd take the gamble.

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What do you consider low feedback? 

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Ya, sometimes with employee discounts and promotions when I worked there when I was younger I could buy (back then it was the original xbox) games and systems lower than basically anywhere. Especially when it was first released and prices went crayz ala the new 3000 series NVidia cards now. So I would sell them on craigslist/ebay. So maybe its that?

 

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8 hours ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

They might have a discount code or MIR for the drive and just act as a middle man to make an easy profit by just giving your address when buying from BestBuy.  

Hmmmmm.....🤔

5 hours ago, dizmo said:

What do you consider low feedback? 

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4 hours ago, sloshappy said:

Ya, sometimes with employee discounts and promotions when I worked there when I was younger I could buy (back then it was the original xbox) games and systems lower than basically anywhere. Especially when it was first released and prices went crayz ala the new 3000 series NVidia cards now. So I would sell them on craigslist/ebay. So maybe its that?

 

Good point. Probably against company policy tho lol

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Are you sure you didn't buy it from Best Buy (on eBay)? A lot of companies have an official eBay page. The first thing that comes up when I search '970 evo' is this listing which is from the official BestBuy eBay account:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-970-EVO-Plus-500GB-Internal-PCI-Express-3-0-x4-NVMe-Solid-State-D/203093946571?epid=3030528681&hash=item2f4957b0cb:g:OCcAAOSwJBhceafr
 

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20 hours ago, Bitter said:

Hmmmmm.....🤔

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Good point. Probably against company policy tho lol

Ya it FOR SURE was lol. But I knew it was going to be a temporary job anyways. 

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7 hours ago, Mnky313 said:

Are you sure you didn't buy it from Best Buy (on eBay)? A lot of companies have an official eBay page. The first thing that comes up when I search '970 evo' is this listing which is from the official BestBuy eBay account:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-970-EVO-Plus-500GB-Internal-PCI-Express-3-0-x4-NVMe-Solid-State-D/203093946571?epid=3030528681&hash=item2f4957b0cb:g:OCcAAOSwJBhceafr
 

Very sure, I bought from a seller with a feedback score of 2 and no other items listed. Super sketchy!

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