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Buying a card from Ebay? Legit?

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August 17, 2014 7:11:12 AM

Sup guys, been browsing through Ebay auctioning on GTX 780s when I found this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/R-MSI-N770-TF-2GD5-OC-NVIDIA-Ge...
a GTX 770 for 259$ supposedly "refurbished" by MSI, (which is fine by me, its fixed, so who cares?)
and its such a steal imo that I'm going to deter off the 780.
But, what do you think about it? Guy has top rated, good feedback, everything
Is it real?

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August 17, 2014 7:17:59 AM

I don't like the 90day only warranty. It's a gamble really. Sometimes, someone sends a card back to a wholesaler, say because they got artifacts on it or "it wouldn't work". They send it back to MSI. MSI test's it, it works fine, they sell it as refurbed. Now, did it not work because the person was a noob and didn't have the right PSU, then great, you get a GPU at a cheap price that was in a system for an hour and never fully powered on because the persons PSU wasn't good enough. Or did they try to OC the hell out of it, warm it too much, probably shorten it's life, MSI get's it back, test's it, it's not OC'd anymore, no artifacts, they sell it as a refurb. Probably is damage has been done.

Toss up.
August 17, 2014 7:23:29 AM

I don't have any experience in buying on ebay, but I think that it is all OK. I would buy it. As far as I know, seller will only receives the money through paypal when you get the card, test it to se if it is as advertised and then confirmed that all is fine.

P.S. If what getochkn said is true, then it is a scam, on the MSI side.
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August 17, 2014 7:28:28 AM

Slobodan-888 said:
I don't have any experience in buying on ebay, but I think that it is all OK. I would buy it. As far as I know, seller will only receives the money through paypal when you get the card, test it to se if it is as advertised and then confirmed that all is fine.

P.S. If what getochkn said is true, then it is a scam, on the MSI side.


It's not a scam, just if MSI get's a card that someone sent in saying "it doesn't work" or "it artifacts", and they test it, and it does work, or doesn't artifact, what can they do. The card works for them. They just have no history on the card from the time it left their factory to the time they got it back. A lot of times it's user error. I see people on here saying, I'm RMAing my 3rd CPU as I've gotten 3 bad ones in a row and my new build won't work. I've built PC's for over 25 years and never had a dead CPU. I call user error on those people. You won't get 3 dead CPU's in a row.

August 17, 2014 7:34:33 AM

Personally I wouldn't buy it if it says it's manufacturer refurbished. I have had bad experience with refurbished electronics. Bought a genuine refurbished lenovo from lenovo. Came missing pieces and with a cracked case that didn't fit right. That being said it does have a 90 day warranty which to me is plenty of time to test a graphics card, and with ebay it's easy to get your money back. It just comes down to how comfortable you are with the possibility of wasting time and possibly a few bucks for shipping.
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