Amazon returns buyer gets scammed out of a Ryzen 9 9950X3D — 'CPU' came with just a 3D-printed base underneath a real heat spreader

I bought a like new DJI RC 2 (drone controller with a screen) from Amazon. It wouldn't connect to my drone even though docs said it would. Turns out it was the RC 1 which looks pretty much same.
So the previous owner bought a RC 2 and stuffed his RC 1 in the box and returned it. Luckily he was signed into it and had his email. So I hunted him down and now I wear his skin as a trophy.

I feel bad to say this but. Some scams are return scams as they have a way to fake it enough to get money back. What is to stop people from buying returns and getting a valid product then pulling the swap themselves?

It is sad that this is something that crossed my mind but with all the news it is also a way to try and pass the blame back to another.

It doesn't work if you buy new but if you buy used it opens the door to a different scam.

The mantra of "if it's too good to be true" should have been banging around at high volume in that dude's brain.

SkyBill40 said:

The mantra of "if it's too good to be true" should have been banging around at high volume in that dude's brain.

Some people are incapable of saying no. Some are so addicted to gambling that even when their own brains are saying no, they do it anyway.

I faced this same crap this week. I live in the UK where damp houses are as common as dog poop on side walks. If you have wooden guitars in houses with constant %90 humidity you can kiss your guitar good bye in as little as 12 hours. My cheap squier is toast now. The others i sold off already while they still have value.

I run a dehumidifier but in order to keep the % down to levels so mould does not grow, it has to be set below %60. Which is also not ideal for wooded guitar necks either.

So for years ive looked for a carbon fiber guitar neck cos those things do not care about humidity. Does not effect them at all. So the neck will stay with its relief set for life.

When Steinberger stopped making the necks that was it for carbon necks for at least 20 years. It was only since 2010 that the industry started back up again but they want serious money. 1000 pounds for the neck

So then i see a Moses neck on ebay this week at 290 pound.....starting at 290. But the guy was extremely stingy with the info. I messaged him to ask if the hardware came with it and what the relief was ( the bend of the neck - either bow or extremely bowed or even worse, bowed out and useless)

He said the neck came with hardware and he said he took it to his luthier and they said it was a work of art.

He said all the things you want to hear.

I had my doubts. The nut on the neck which holds the strings near the tuners was not even set and the pic showed it halfway off of the mounting. As in its not even glued it. How can a luthier say the thing is good if the nut is not even set?

No string tree holes to hold the strings on a neck which needs the string tree's.

The mounting holes were filthy and had black gunk in them and the threads would need to be chased. Yet his luthier said this was a work of art.

For me, too many things were wrong. Apart from that it needing to come from ireland. These necks normally got for top top top dollar cos they are not made anymore. This was 290/offer.

Nah, i will pass. Seemed too good to be true and too many issues which cost money. In the end this would cost as much as a brand new Klos neck when figuring how much it would cost to get the luthier to look at the thing.