Buying gpus from ebay?

[Ddarlington36]

I was just doing random searches for gpus and i saw rather decent prices on rather expensive gpu's are these for real i've bought stuff off ebay before but does this imply crypto is loosing its grip on the gpu market. Or are they just parting with the old cards? Seriously a 1080ti for $139 gtx 1070 for $90 that seems too good to be true!

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=gtx+1070&_sop=15

[minibois]

If it's too good to be true, it is too good to be true.

Usually those cards (at least used to be) are cards like GTS 450, GTX 560 Ti and those sort of era and price cards, flashed with a BIOS of whatever card they are implying to sell.

Or you just get a box with a brick and a picture of the card.

[Ginger_]

Too good to be true means scam. Besides, that's not a Zotac amp! Extreme, that's one of their basic cards. The gigabyte that says g1 gaming is a blower card, not the great custom cooler that an actual g1 has. 

 

The only thing that'll happen if you buy them is a long drawn out PayPal claim

[FuzzyLogic]

My very first hardware buy was on eBay, a legit EVGA 750Ti for 50usd. But yeah, if it's too good to be true, don't buy it 

[asus killer]

it could also be miners cards that are barely alive. 

[Sat1600]

Those are hacked accounts. I ordered one out off curiosity a few days ago. Got an email from eBay 10 min later 

[Ddarlington36]

1 hour ago, Sat1600 said:

Those are hacked accounts. I ordered one out off curiosity a few days ago. Got an email from eBay 10 min later 

Seems like its very possible these are hacked accounts prices are to forgiving knowing the current demand for graphic cards -

[Mick Naughty]

No sound legit. Buy all of them.

[Jrasero]

10 hours ago, Minibois said:

If it's too good to be true, it is too good to be true.

Usually those cards (at least used to be) are cards like GTS 450, GTX 560 Ti and those sort of era and price cards, flashed with a BIOS of whatever card they are implying to sell.

Or you just get a box with a brick and a picture of the card.

Yeah when you see a great price it most is too good to be true on Ebay since most people there know their stuff

 

Also I currently would never buy used especially if it was a local meetup, but even on Ebay you run the risk of the card being mined on, which is like buying a car site in scene and finding out it has over 100K miles on it already.  Buying locally most of the time you will not be able to test out the card so it couldn't be non functional to begin with.    

[Jrasero]

Also on the flip side while Ebay can garner you the best sale price as a seller it's horrific on fees.  You pay an Ebay fee, Paypal fee, and shipping fee and if your a new ebay seller it could take up to 21 days to receive the transferred funds.  Also Ebay and Paypal heavily favors the buyer since you you choose or forget to ask for signature required the buyer can just deny the item was delivered and in theory keep the goods and ask for a refund.  

 

 

I looked at the link most if not all the listing have been removed