Mutton Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Just have to rant about this because I feel like strangling someone. I needed to expand my storage, so ordered some 16TB Toshiba enterprise HDDs from Amazon, and a QVO 870 4TB SSD from eBay. All looked completely legitimate; I'm not easily fooled. All three are bogus. The SSD is an outright fake, from the incorrect spelling on the label to the invalid Samsung serial number and the firmware version (not a Samsung number) which google knows is a known fake device. The HDDs were both relabelled refurbs, not the new ones with a 5yr warranty as advertised. More annoyingly, I already started rebuilding my array onto them before I discovered that, and need to finish it and then wait for more (genuine) HDDs to arrive from a real shop so I can transfer the data again. Makes me want to swear... I really wish I could get my hands on these people right now. It's getting so you can't find a genuine article on Amazon or eBay any more. It's all Chinese fakes. Fake batteries, fake CPUs, fake components, fake RAM, fake HDDs... FFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution wolfie Posted January 2 Solution Share Posted January 2 (edited) My advice is to only buy such tech stuff from Amazon sold by Amazon itself, never a third party seller. And I simply never use eBay. Edited January 2 by wolfie lurch234 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutton Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 (edited) Yep - lesson learned, which I should have known already. Never again! No matter how legit the sellers look. At least I can get them all refunded. Edited January 2 by Mutton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javer Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 (edited) After approx. 20 years of being a Amazon customer ...I don't purchase PC Electronics (CPU's, Motherboards, SSD'S, Memory or Flash Drives) from them anymore due to being sold fake/refurbed/used returns for new & also some Amazon Warehouse shipping scams which Amazon sometimes won't refund. In fact ...there is a popular PC Hardware YT Channel Video that received (4) High-End MB's (each one received & returned 4x) that were all used faulty returns. 😦 Edited January 2 by Javer Mutton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurch234 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 When I purchase online electronics for my PC I usually go for Newegg. Got two graphics card from them as well as my Samsung 980 pro SSD (legit!) Mutton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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