Ebay luck

[DragonTamer1]

So a couple of days ago, I accidentally made a bit on a GTX 970 on ebay when I wanted to make the bid on a different 970 for a lower price. I was hoping someone would outbid me, but I ended up winning a Zotac GTX 970 that I didn't really want and wasn't in an outstanding position to pay for. I paid for it with the plans of just relisting it and flipping it for my money back. What I got in the mail today was not a GTX 970, it was actually a GTX 1060. It's a 3GB 1060 and one of the super cheap MSI ones, but it works. I had actually been looking at a 1060 for my theater PC to give it VR capabilities because it only needs 6 pin power and the power supply only has a single 6 pin connector so that worked out rather well.

 

Not the best thing in the world that could have happened, but me and my friends all had a laugh when I turned the card over and the sticker said GTX 1060. Also the other card I was bidding on actually ended up going over what I paid for mine.

 

Have any of you guys ever gotten an unexpected surprise from an ebay purchase?

[yaya1]

Please don't get me wrong, but wouldn't that (technically) be considered scam? I mean you bought a GTX 970, which you didn't actually receive...

[CyberFern0]

2 minutes ago, Jonas_2909 said:

Please don't get me wrong, but wouldn't that (technically) be considered scam? I mean you bought a GTX 970, which you didn't actually receive...

However, It’s not a scam if it is the seller’s fault.

[MimigaKing]

8 minutes ago, DragonTamer1 said:

SNIP

I would greatly suggest you to run benchmarks and stress tests to see if it fits the scores of an actual 1060. We've seen GPU bios having been tampered in the past. 

[DragonTamer1]

3 minutes ago, Jonas_2909 said:

Please don't get me wrong, but wouldn't that (technically) be considered scam? I mean you bought a GTX 970, which you didn't actually receive...

I wouldn't consider it so.

 

I think that the seller genuinely though it was a 970. I've been seeing a lot of people pop up on ebay lately trying to sell off GPUs. I assume they got into mining while it was big and are trying to recoups their losses while they can. They usually have only about 10 reviews at most and don't seem to know much about what the card is.

[yaya1]

3 minutes ago, CyberFern0 said:

However, It’s not a scam if it is the seller’s fault.

Either way, @DragonTamer1 bought a GTX 970...

[DragonTamer1]

14 minutes ago, MimigaKing said:

I would greatly suggest you to run benchmarks and stress tests to see if it fits the scores of an actual 1060. We've seen GPU bios having been tampered in the past. 

It scored 2300 in heaven stock.

 

Edit: The settings I used are below;

1600x900 no fullscreen, 8x AA, tesselation normal, quality ultra

^Standard settings i've been using for years to gauge relative performance.

 

The cooler, board and software all match what this 1060 should be. It needs a good cleaning so I will check the GPU die when I tear it down.

[Cypher-Jackson]

30 minutes ago, DragonTamer1 said:

What I got in the mail today was not a GTX 970, it was actually a GTX 1060. It's a 3GB 1060 and one of the super cheap MSI ones, but it works. I had actually been looking at a 1060 for my theater PC to give it VR capabilities because it only needs 6 pin power and the power supply only has a single 6 pin connector so that worked out rather well.

You got a law of attraction WIN going on here ?
I'm gonna start thinking about 1080tis

[DragonTamer1]

So the seller has noticed the mistake, he accidentally sent me the 1060 that was supposed to go to someone else. We are talking to try and figure out how to approach this situation. If the price difference between the two auctions was large, I will send the card back and get it sorted. If there is a small difference I'm going to see if it would be acceptable to just keep the 1060 since the two cards perform very similarly.