Ebay strangeness.............

I see things on ebay that astound me sometimes.

Here is someone selling a brand new and sealed GTX285 for £80 (it's worth triple that) claiming he already bought a new card and didn't require this generous present from a family member:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=280502097825

Looking at the feedback, the new card he bought and chose over this awesome present was a hacked and used 1GB 4850 (plastic cover was cut away):

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=200460633309

What??? A 2 second search would have given them the answer that the GTX 285 is far more powerful and expensive than a 4850? If I was that family member I'd be angry to have my present sold at a huge loss.

However the auction was dodgy - when they first ran it, it had a mobile phone picture of a XFX GTX 260 sat in a bedroom?? Then after four minutes they changed it to a stock retail photo of a GTX 285??? Then on the fifth minute it sold!

I await feedback response from the risk taker who bought it! LOL!

Seems strange, but someone took a risk on it within 5 minutes of it going live (not me, seemed too strange an auction and not enough feedback score, though I was tempted).

We have to wait then for the receipient to get the "package".

Fishy :eyebrow:

Definitely something up with that one. At least the buyer should be protected by Paypal protection.

Yeah man, that sounds totally dodg.

This ended in tears. As we all thought.

Looks that way from the feedback left by the buyer. A bit obvious for us, but it shows a new one gets scammed every day.