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Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPU
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this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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This has been an issue with Amazon for years.
They get stock from any third party sellers, stick it all together in the same place in the warehouse, then ship them out regardless of where they got them and which seller you bought from.
Honestly, they probably didn't even need to spend money on the sticker or old CPU. They could have shipped boxes of sand for all the checking Amazon do. There's absolutely no incentive for them to do so. They'll never be held to account for all the fake shit they sell.
The incentive is that Amazon can charge more for premium sellers to have private bins that safeguard against fraud