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Unlucky PC builder sent RTX 5070 from Amazon, gets DVD rewriter and a busted logic board from an early 2000's Kenwood AV receiver instead — $700 GPU turns out to be e-waste thanks to return scam

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(Image credit: u/ luutherr) An extremely unfortunate PC builder is the latest to fall victim to Amazon 's prolific returns scams, after the Nvidia RTX 5070 they received from the website turned out to be a DVD re-writer, a mousepad, and the busted logic board from an early 2000's Kenwood AV receiver. what i got sent instead of a 5070 from r/pcmasterrace The victim was gifted a brand new MSI Ventus 2X variant of the RTX 5070 from Amazon by a friend at a cost of 605 euros ($700). A few days later, when the package arrived, it weighed the same as the real thing, but it certainly did not have a graphics card inside. Instead, the customer received what appears to be a broken logic board from an old Kenwood AV receiver, a DVD rewriter, and what seems to be a mousepad. "This was shipped and sold by Amazon," u/luutherr told Tom's Hardware. They also provided us with proof of purchase and confirmed the item was a gift from a friend, making the scam all the more galling.…

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