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What is up with impossible sold prices on ebay?

PingSpike

PingSpike

Lifer
So I have some hardware I'm interested in selling. I figured I'd browse sold listing on ebay to get an idea what it goes for.

Anyway, I see this R7 240 that says it sold for $222. I doubt this. The card is in the "barely worth the hassle to sell" territory and most other listings rightly sell around $25-30 or so.

So what is the scam here? Did some one misread it as $22 and never pay? I've seen other listings like this on other items. Maybe a single big on an item that had a starting price of like 4 times its value.
 
PingSpike said:
I remember my buddy telling me he used to get drunk and go on ebay. Then surprise packages would show up. What is this? Surprise, a new guitar!
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Closest thing i was to a drunk purchase was when i was so baked this week i figured Ebay would be where i would pick up a pentacle pendent and sterling silver chain. LOL i get into my well fuck it moments and just DO things. Usually good fun things but i sometimes have my well fuck it moments. No regrets yet with the fuck it approach.
 
Not everyone really keeps up with hardware or knows what is considered high end or not or what the going price is. See a GPU with big fans on it and a cool looking design? It's probably a high enough end card and that price looks good, so they buy it. Of course the look means nothing, but to a more average person they might not bother to do further research. They probably just put "video card" in ebay with a budget and basic specs like ram in mind and picked that one.

Though I just googled that and it does not even look like that high end of a card if you were an average user just going by that, but one feature it DOES have is that it's single slot, which is harder to find now. So maybe the person was just willing to pay that since they needed a basic single slot GPU. We paid like $400 at work for a low profile single slot GPU that does not require external power. Such a card is such a niche thing that you end up paying more just because of that, and not because of the specs.
 
Yeah, the card is single slot and low profile which isn't common any more. But $222? I mean, you can buy a GT1030 for its regular awful price of $80 any day of the week.

So far I see money laundering and ignorance as possible reasons. I feel like there must be better ways to launder money than with fake video cards.

Maybe there's a secret code in the ad and they actually ship a R7 240 box full of drugs.
 
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