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Aorus RTX 5090 package from Amazon was allegedly filled with macaroni, rice, and an old obsolete GPU — it's an impasta! (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I bought some AirPods off of Amazon and received an empty box. The side of the earbuds box was cut open so someone could slide the earbuds out.

Thankfully they’re only $200 so the Amazon support dude didn't even hesitate to refund me. I can’t imagine trying to explain how I didn’t get a $3K card. Would probably have my credit card fight it out but would then get banned from Amazon.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Never use Amazon for expensive electronics. There's too much nonsense going on.

I tried to preorder a phone once. Sony offered a pair of earbuds as a preorder gift and I wanted that specific phone anyway so hey, why not. Unfortunately, their fulfillment partner happened to be Amazon.

Instead of my phone I received a book about Lemmy Kilmister. Oh, and they couldn't correct the error; all they could do was to have me send the book back and get a refund and buy the phone again – which of course took me out of the preorder program.

Yeah, no. There's too much bullshit with Amazon to trust them with expensive gear.