Facebook Marketplace and a bargain?

[Wakou]

Hi folks.
I just had interesting conversation on Facebook Marketplace, and I wondered what you would make of it.
I am in the UK, and saw a GTX 1650 for £90.00 (approx $110.00/€100.00)
A fair price, and all seems good..
It is not in a location I could drive to and pick up.
So I sent the "Is this available?" message at 11:50 this morning, and thought no more of it.
At 21:30, I get a "Yes it is"  and so when I checked my messages, at 22:30, I replied..
I asked a few "pertinent" (or perhaps "impertinent") questions..
The pictures were only of the box...
I asked "This IS the card and not just the box?"
She insta-responded with a photo of the card, on some kind of homely soft-furnishings.., with an apology...
The description had mentioned it being working and in good cond. etc...
And so I asked have you recently upgraded?
She replied: " Yes, to an iPhone 12"   (!!!!)
It was getting late, and so I asked her to to call me tomorrow if she was uncomfortable chatting to a random at 23:00.
No response.
Her "profile" is from a different town to where the card is available, but not TOO far.
Dodgy? Fine? Worth a punt?

 

 

[da na]

Ask for them to show it working. Too dodgy. 

[tkitch]

Dodgy AF

[DildorTheDecent]

29 minutes ago, Wakou said:

I am in the UK, and saw a GTX 1650 for £90.00 (approx $110.00/€100.00)

You can't buy one of these for less than £160~ on eBay UK. Including the cards at auction. Active listings are £120+

 

That £90 card must be fake.

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, DildorTheDecent said:

You can't buy one of these for less than £160~ on eBay UK. Including the cards at auction. Active listings are £120+

 

That £90 card must be fake.

On FB Marketplace prices are often cheaper. I get used stuff all the time for below eBay and RRP - recently picked up a 10900KF and Z590 board for CAD400 (200GBP or so). Another time three P55 motherboards, an i7 6700K and board and a GTX 1060 for $25. 

 

It happens.

 

Now though, this listing sounds like a scam.

[Wakou]

Thank you all.. I am still "intrigued"  though!

 

[danomicar]

1 hour ago, Wakou said:

And so I asked have you recently upgraded?
She replied: " Yes, to an iPhone 12"   (!!!!)

aaaand that's a big fat NOPE

[Wakou]

Because I think folks are generally decent!  And this is literally how I bought my CPU, A mum, selling off her teenaged son's kit, not wanting to allow him to be exposed to "Facebook marketplace "  and the potential horrors therein.
They were fine and kind, (of course!)

 

[Wakou]

It’s still working now, and yes I’ve upgraded to the iPhone 12. And it’s absolutely fine, I understand you wanting to ask questions, I certainly would too!

[Brooksie359]

49 minutes ago, LienusLateTips said:

On FB Marketplace prices are often cheaper. I get used stuff all the time for below eBay and RRP - recently picked up a 10900KF and Z590 board for CAD400 (200GBP or so). Another time three P55 motherboards, an i7 6700K and board and a GTX 1060 for $25. 

 

It happens.

 

Now though, this listing sounds like a scam.

Yeah I have heard this as well. I think part of it is that alot of people that use Facebook marketplace aren't as savvy when it comes to knowing how much stuff is worth. I mean you see nontech people selling tech related stuff for lower than what you would expect but perhaps they simply went off of how much the gpu originally cost and cut that price by a certain amount. If you did that then the asking price for the gpu is actually not that unreasonable. 

[thekingofmonks]

32 minutes ago, danomicar said:

aaaand that's a big fat NOPE

a13 bionic > tu117

just plug n play bro

 

source: trust me bro

[SmeldorTheEmperor]

9 hours ago, Wakou said:

Hi folks.
I just had interesting conversation on Facebook Marketplace, and I wondered what you would make of it.
I am in the UK, and saw a GTX 1650 for £90.00 (approx $110.00/€100.00)
A fair price, and all seems good..
It is not in a location I could drive to and pick up.
So I sent the "Is this available?" message at 11:50 this morning, and thought no more of it.
At 21:30, I get a "Yes it is"  and so when I checked my messages, at 22:30, I replied..
I asked a few "pertinent" (or perhaps "impertinent") questions..
The pictures were only of the box...
I asked "This IS the card and not just the box?"
She insta-responded with a photo of the card, on some kind of homely soft-furnishings.., with an apology...
The description had mentioned it being working and in good cond. etc...
And so I asked have you recently upgraded?
She replied: " Yes, to an iPhone 12"   (!!!!)
It was getting late, and so I asked her to to call me tomorrow if she was uncomfortable chatting to a random at 23:00.
No response.
Her "profile" is from a different town to where the card is available, but not TOO far.
Dodgy? Fine? Worth a punt?

 

 

I have lots of experience on the used marked. I find -80% off deals almost every week. 

 

Usually a woman selling tech is kind of a red flag. Its not very common that a fake account was made with a woman pic but actually a man controlling it. 

 

Its clearly that the person controlling the post doesn't know anything about pc's.

 

How to detect?

Try to negotiate the price to an extremely low price, if they accept it too easy its probably a scam.

See how fast they want you to have it and pay them your money.

If they don't want you to pick it up

Reverse search the image on google, and finding it on another site

 

I myself had many good deals, i was scammed once and since then when something was too good to be true i went to get it and tried it out.

 

Hopefully it helps