Generally speaking, I get the feeling I should stick to something that isn’t worth enough for felony theft charges to apply, so no RTX 4090 or 4080. The 4070 Ti isn’t at all a bad deal for $0.00, so I suppose that’s the one.
I’ve heard conflicting reports on how likely Amazon is to refund you if you simply claim the box showed up with a brick in it. I’ve also seen conflicting reports on whether or not they’ll actually check if a return has the same serial number on it. What say you, Hexbear?
Love that we can threads like this without some Redditoid carelord gaudy-slamming us with their propertarian bitchshit in the comments and melting down into a feckless ooze because of it.
I remember how livid reddit dipshits would get over pirating movies and games and shit. Motherfuckers, everyone that actually did the work has been paid already, probably a shitty wage at that. The only people getting rich off the box office sales are the parasitic 2kg sacks of shit stuffed into a 1kg sack.
I feel exactly the same. I’m so very grateful Hexbear exists as a reprieve from the incredibly reactionary English speaking internet. The one and only reliable forum where we can rest easy and know we won’t be judged or insulted according to the standards of capitalist hegemony.
The terminally boot addicted, paypig assholes of reddit are such an underrated element of why reddit’s radioactive cesspit of a community is so insufferable. This thread would have been removed by mods if posted anywhere on reddit but r/illegalifeprotips (which I am absolutely stunned the reddit admins have continued to let exist despite having effectively become r/shoplifting 2.0 but with a much broader criminal subject manner).
The icing on the cake is that these people just get more and more emboldened as reddit hemorrhages leftists and continuously lurches right. More and more often these days I’ve noticed that comments complaining about Nvidia’s extortionate pricing tend to result in these freaks crawling out of the woodwork to literally outright mock and shame people for being too poor to afford mid-end GPUs anymore. Reddit has always been bad, but holy shit, I don’t remember reactionaries being quite this mask off about these things back when r/CTH was around.
if you buy something that lets you return it to kohl’s as an option you could always do that and if there’s a problem claim the Kohl’s people fucked it up
kohl’s policy 2 years ago was to just scan the code, print the lable, chuck your crap in a box or bag without question
Better to claim it showed up with copy paper or or a bag of sand in the box. Whatever it is must weigh close to the same as the video card since the shipper weighs the package while in route to you. That way if they do an investigation the box will weigh the same as it did when it was scanned and they’ll have no idea where the video card could have been stolen.
Make sure to order it on a credit card. If Amazon won’t refund you, contest the charges and the credit card company will refund you.
If they ask for a police report, don’t worry. Call the non emergency line and tell them you need the report to get a refund from Amazon. They’re likely to take the report over the phone(some bigger departments even will do them via email). They will do no investigation as long as you tell them you got an empty box.
After thinking it over for a little while, this seems like the way to do it. The weights should be inside the RTX box itself in place of the card, right?
I read an article that RTX are going up in price again because scalpers are buying them to sell them to China which can’t buy them legitimately because of the US export bans lol
Nah. The only cards affected by this are high end workstation cards and the 4090. There is some scalping of very specifically only 4090s already in-country which are being purchased and repurposed into RTX 6000 Ada server cards for use in AI server farms.
The reason that 4090s are so expensive is because a huge amount of stock was redirected to China before the ban went into effect in mid-November. Anyone in the west trying to scalp, especially on 4080 or anything lower is going to be in for a very funny 2020 toilet paper scalper time.
Nvidia sent about a 6-month supply of the AD102 chips to continue making 6000 Ada and 4090 cards until the 4090D variant chips are ready, but AIB manufacturers are taking advantage of the situation and massively increasing prices of units while also focusing all manufacturing into workstation cards. They’re also repurposing gaming GPUs into more expensive workstation cards, to ensure that there will be a huge amount of the 6000 Ada cards for likely years to come, and gamers are just gonna have to stick with the 4090 they have or get a 4090D which will be slightly less powerful.
usually they don’t check at all
there is always the remote possibility that you will be the unlucky fucker that some jobsworth does decide to check though
What I’ve heard previously is they are much more likely to check with electronics worth several hundred dollars, something about how such returns automatically get flagged to be inspected separately.
That said, I’m wondering if maybe the GPU isn’t the component I should be doing this with. Perhaps it’d be more foolproof to just swap the IHS of an i9 and Celeron of the same socket and return the Celeron wearing the i9’s serial number. I’ve never heard any stories about Amazon literally testing parts in a test bench before.
