'Paid $1,855 for a bag of flour' cries Amazon shopper over gadget scam and reveals the 'first red flag' they spotted | 7HRYVBY | 2024-04-11 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 products and share recommendation.
One consumer posted several 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.
"Finally turned sufferer to a return scam, paid $1855 for a bag of flour," the disgruntled user wrote.
They offered 5 photographs of the box, including one that exhibits the processing unit is just not inside.
As an alternative, a nasty of flour is pictured as an alternative regardless of the field seeming to be unopened previous to the client's unboxing.
"The first purple flag was that Gigabyte graphics 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 new 4090 should weigh in a field of this measurement," they wrote next 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 send a prime of toothbrushes!
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> "The tooth brush have been value way more than the guide. So I simply didn't return them and Amazon despatched me TWO extra books," one Reddit consumer replied.
"When you don't battle this then it is going to hold occurring to others," one other stated.
"Can be higher for everybody in the event you returned it, even when you don't get a refund, within the hopes Amazon will be capable of decide who returned it.
"Everyone knows they in all probability gained't, however it might't help to only take in this loss," one other individual wrote.
We've reached out to Amazon for remark.
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