The US engineer talks about “stressing for two weeks” after someone bought his used NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card on EBay, and then he had the courage to return it from the GPU and memory systems removed from the disc. Piscian19 he told other redditors That “flawless” used RTX 4090, sold on ebay, was almost immediately returned because of “without video”. Fortunately, the story has a joyful ending because Ebay finally returned the emotionally crazy seller.
The spider spider piscian19 was aroused by the profile of the buyer Ebay – a “huge” entity with the shopping and California site. The warning is to be prematurely, so the RTX 4090 seller decided to make sure that they are covered by insurance. “I took a lot of photos, got mega insurance, tracking, etc.” – noted Piscian19.
The feeling of Redditor and Ebayer was correct because the buyer almost immediately began the eBay return process, asking for a refund due to the death of the graphics card received.
After receiving the return of Piscian19, he noticed that the damage was clearly noticeable in the assembly brackets of the cards (usually these are steel cabling problems). Remember that the seller imagined everything before the mail, and “flawless … barely used” RTX 4090 was certainly only the shadow of the former self.
Then the stressed engineer decided that it was time to contact Ebay and kindly mention legal proceedings. However, while they were waiting for the circles of the complaint to turn, Piscian19 decided to demolish the card to understand up-to-date problems before RMA. Then it was discovered that the insolent GPU and VRAM trigger buyer before the return of RTX 4090 …
The best graphics cards are still arduous to get at reasonable prices, so second -hand crazy level seems to strengthen. However, it seems that there is a up-to-date hope on the market, and more high -class middle cards go to the retail, and both AMD and NVIDIA are now starting to deal with the mass trend graphics card segment, with their RTX 5060/Ti and RX 5060 XT model.
If you are taking on the used GPU market, take a leaf from the book Piscian19 on the Seller’s side. The photodeocument in most sales and shipping process seems sufficient to cover all possibilities. The GPU buyers used should also be conscientious, because both sides of the equation have their fraudsters.
