'Paid $1,855 for a bag of flour' cries Amazon shopper over gadget scam and reveals the 'first red flag' they spotted | 1QYLTMH | 2024-03-21 00:08:01
Footage of the reported scam have been posted on the favored Reddit
AN AMAZON shopper has claimed they have been scammed out of $1855 after buying a product on the platform.
Footage of the reported scam have been posted on the favored Reddit platform r/amazonprime.
Over 100,000 Amazon consumers use the platform to discuss merchandise and share advice.
One consumer posted a number of footage of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics processing unit that they'd bought.
The box was sealed in plastic and didn't look peculiar from the surface.
"Lastly turned victim to a return rip-off, paid $1855 for a bag of flour," the disgruntled user wrote.
They offered five pictures of the field, together with one that exhibits the processing unit is just not inside.
As an alternative, a nasty of flour is pictured instead despite the box seeming to be unopened prior to the client's unboxing.
"The first pink flag was that Gigabyte graphics playing cards aren't shrink wrapped (they've by no means been, anybody can YouTube unboxing movies) but the weight felt high-quality," the Amazon customer wrote.
"$1855 bag of flour, weighted to be what a brand new 4090 ought to weigh in a field of this measurement," they wrote subsequent to the picture of the bag of flour.
The Reddit submit has over 2,000 upvotes and greater than 700 feedback.
"I ordered a guide and acquired ship a prime of toothbrushes!
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> "The tooth brush have been value far more than the guide. So I just didn't return them and Amazon sent me TWO more books," one Reddit consumer replied.
"In case you don't struggle this then it's going to hold occurring to others," one other stated.
"Can be higher for everybody in the event you returned it, even in the event you don't get a refund, in the hopes Amazon will be capable of decide who returned it.
"Everyone knows they in all probability gained't, but it may well't help to only take in this loss," one other individual wrote.
We have now reached out to Amazon for remark.
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