A Newegg customer says that instead of the RTX 4090 he ordered, he got weights.
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cucaulay malkin
NVIDIA really wont stop at nothing.
ETAxDOA
I once bought a lawnmower from a department store in Darwin, Oz to find grass in the catcher. The salesperson who sold it to me did act sheepish. It was replaced without question
TheDeeGee
Shit like this happens all the time, especially on sites like Amazon.
A little while ago on the Noctua reddit someone had ordered some fans, only to find out inside were standard no brand case fans.
pegasus1
SandDisk Flash drives were bad for this, i think the most counterfeited item ever.
Aegis
I ordered an RTX 2060 from Amazon during Prime Day and got sent a car vacuum cleaner 🙄
Still waiting for the refund over a week after returning it.
TheDeeGee
I never order anything above 50 bucks from amazon or ebay.
Kaarme
Isn't Amazon quite fair with returns? Although that might encourage people to try to scam Amazon itself, which might lead to later customers suffering, wittingly or unwittingly.
Newegg, however, has such a reputation these days that I don't know how anyone could dare to buy anything worth more than 20 dollars from there. Years ago I used to think it would be sweet if Newegg operated in Europe as well, but those times are long gone. It's a mystery how it can keep running in the USA anymore.
pegasus1
Ive ordered GPUs, CPUs, Mobo's and all sorts through Amazon UK, even a PS5 and in 12 years never had a single issue to be honest.
Size_Mick
The fact that it arrived in the packaging makes me think that maybe not the vendor but one of the employees did a switcheroo because they saw an opportunity to steal a card without getting caught.
NewTRUMP Order
I don't know if the person is telling the truth or just looking for attention. But if you steal a 4090 card out of the box at Newegg why bother to go all the trouble of bringing in weights, handling the empty box, placing the weights in the box and putting it back in to inventory? If you just dispose of the box then it will not be discovered missing, if ever, until they do an inventory count. Putting the box back in inventory with weights ensures there will be an investigation, or at least notification from an upset customer once it is purchased and ships. I am 51/49 on this one leaning towards a scam. https://media4.giphy.com/media/hmHDhRmnHJkOI/200w.gif?cid=ecf05e47k71hxdcx2g72h50zfm78br4f5r5r7tsytsh8ta1t&rid=200w.gif&ct=g
Horus-Anhur
That's the metal for the cooler.
Amazon will send the rest at a later date. Then he can assemble the card. 😀
Stairmand
It's usually a case of someone ordering one, carefully opening the packaging and replacing the contents and resealing the box so it looks un-opened. They then send it back and because it's still sealed it just goes back on the shelf.
Used to happen a lot with the 3080's and 3090's.
Airbud
Never, ever, trust a robot.
https://i.gifer.com/7aAu.gif
I knew they were thieves!...:D
Zooke
Newegg will know where that card has been, however I would think that since the card (or should that be 'box') has been sent to another customer they stand zero chance of proving the original buyer replaced the card with some weights because they have lost the chain of custody.
It's classic scam, I remember years ago someone I knew bought a flatscreen tv from a couple of lads in a white van.The lads opened the box to show them a brand new tv, but then switched it and handed them an identical box, I assume whilst the cash was being exchanged. They fell for the old switcheroo and ended up with a box of wood.
And no, it wasn't me although I did fall for a similar scam once with a carton of cigarettes.
Kaarme
A 4090 with its box suddenly disappearing at the warehouse wouldn't go unnoticed, would it? Newegg as an old, major retailer, even if it's in shady hands nowadays, should have a system designed to prevent that, with plenty of cameras and whatnot. Right now 4090 is a big deal, and even one missing would be spotted immediately when they can't fulfill an order. The police would be involved. Chances of getting caught would be pretty high. However, if it really is Newegg's fault in this particular case (wouldn't surprise me considering how shady Newegg is these days), then the big benefit in this kind of scam is that Newegg can claim the random customer is trying to scam Newegg, not the other way around. That's why it wouldn't surprise me even if Newegg as a company was behind this. For example, they installed the 4090 in a pre-built gaming PC and then shipped the graphics card box with the weights inside to a random, unlucky customer, hoping to get away with it. Based on the recent stories, Newegg would be totally capable of such a stupid scam.
TalentX
For me this looks like the card got stolen during delivery from someone working at the delivery stations. Probably not caused by Newegg.
Either that, or the user who shared this is lying to draw attention or to damage Newegg's reputation for personal or corporate concerns.
axium
This looks like the poster is lying. People looked through his post history and there are a lot of posts about CNC or Laser cutting machines. The pieces that he photo'd in the box are either CNC cut or laser cut, so this stinks of fraud and attention whoring.
sovietwarbear
seen this befor at my jobe where i work in 90s
we store Xerox Machines. thy come with seal on sea containers from china and like always we just unload them and some times at random times guy from dutch Xerox company comes by and start knoking on boxes and then you hear in background. can some one open this one and it wil be full of heavy stomes
one time we had 45ft sea container with seal on where 60% Xerox Machines where removed and thy add big stones in boxes to make them heavy
bst857
I don't think so. Why would you CNC weights when you can just buy them much cheaper?
ruiner13
He should be thankful about all the electricity he'll be saving. Probably some environmentalist at work 😀
