I was shopping for this same CPU last week and found an Amazon third-party store named something like “Big Tech Deals WE RECORD SERIAL NUMBERS”.
If you have to name your store that, it’s obviously an unsolved problem in the marketplace.
This has been an issue with Amazon for years.
They get stock from any third party sellers, stick it all together in the same place in the warehouse, then ship them out regardless of where they got them and which seller you bought from.
Honestly, they probably didn’t even need to spend money on the sticker or old CPU. They could have shipped boxes of sand for all the checking Amazon do. There’s absolutely no incentive for them to do so. They’ll never be held to account for all the fake shit they sell.
That’s tech blogger was probably thinking “what the fuck, I need to return this piece of shit… wait. This would be a great video.”
It was sold by Amazon itself rather than a third-party seller, which is often the case with these sorts of fake items.
The fact that the packaging was sealed and the CPU was unused suggests that this was not one of those instances in which someone bought an item and replaced it with a fake before sending it back for a refund.
co-mingled inventory strikes again.
I just dont trust amazon for tech tbh. January I ordered a new 1tb NVME and it arrived opened; I’m not about to trust an opened drive when i paid full price for a new one.
Oh come on, you could be lucky like a friend of mine who found lots and lots of Rocco Siffredi videos on a new hdd. (it was store bought though, to be honest)
Had to look up who that is, definitely don’t think a drive full of mystery porn is “lucky”
Store just has top-notch customer service, they knew what the drive would be used for and pre-loaded it :D
